A study details the first human recipients of Precision Neuroscience's minimally invasive brain-computer interface, designed for recording and stimulation without penetrating brain tissue.
Globes reported that Atreides Fund founder Gavin Baker, an investor in Safe Superintelligence, said SSI intends to launch its first language model by early the following week - the first attributable, on-the-record timing signal from inside the cap table after roughly two years in which SSI has shipped no model, API, paper or demo. The report puts total capital raised at about $7bn across offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv with over 50 employees, and names Alphabet, Atreides, Yuri Milner, OurCrowd and VentureIsrael alongside the previously disclosed backers. Investors are described as pressing Sutskever to show product progress. Experts quoted speculate the technical differentiator is real-time updating of model weights during reading - attacking the 'knowledge stagnation' limit in current frontier models - though Globes stresses none of this is confirmed by SSI, which remains publicly silent. Treated as a single-source report of intent, not a completed launch.
Business Insider reported hands-on testing of Kernel Flow at a longevity clinic, describing the non-invasive fNIRS headset as now available to try at about half a dozen longevity-focused clinics after ten years of development and more than $150 million invested. Kernel's own clinics page corroborates a live commercial subscription offer built on Flow 2 hardware across three tiers — Starter at $2,500 per system per month, Plus at $5,750 and Unlimited at $10,500, with annual-commitment discounts — delivering a 7-minute passive Brain Age report and a 30-minute active Cognition report. Kernel continues to state that its systems are for research use only and are not intended to diagnose, treat or manage any disease, so the commercial rollout sits alongside an explicit non-clinical disclaimer.
Boston Dynamics' Atlas performed football-inspired goal celebrations and delivered the ceremonial match ball to the referee at halftime of Brazil's round-of-16 match against Norway. Hyundai Motor Group described it as the first time its robotics had been integrated into a live match environment.
Collaborative Robotics announced the second-generation Proxie mobile robot, adding autotasking — autonomous identification of which work to perform — along with two-armed mobile manipulation and greater payload capacity. The company positioned it as production-tested physical AI for real operations rather than a research platform.
Northrop Grumman announced its air-launched Pegasus rocket will fly an unprecedented rescue mission to raise the orbit of NASA's Swift gamma-ray burst observatory, launching as a rapid-response mission from Kwajalein Atoll. Swift was built at Northrop's Gilbert, Arizona facility and launched in 2004. The mission features a complete avionics upgrade to the vehicle. Pegasus was the world's first privately developed space launch vehicle; an air-launched profile means it is not tied to a single launch site. Not a big event: a mission announcement rather than an executed launch or a disclosed contract value.
Days after its Nasdaq debut, SpaceX submitted an FCC filing for permission to deploy up to 1 million large AI satellites (each ~230ft, ~120kW compute) to run orbital data centers, with demonstration launches targeted for late 2027 and deployment as early as 2028. The plan, central to folding xAI under SpaceX, frames the IPO proceeds as funding for a space-based compute build-out.
Northrop Grumman shipped the remaining solid rocket booster segments for NASA's Artemis III mission - the planned crewed lunar landing - following the successful Artemis II crewed flyby in April. The company describes its five-segment boosters as the most powerful human-rated motors ever built. Shipment of the final segments moves Artemis III hardware from manufacturing into stacking and integration, removing Northrop's booster production from the mission's critical path. Not a big event: a scheduled manufacturing and logistics milestone under an existing NASA contract, with no new award or changed programme date.
At GTC Taipei NVIDIA announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot, its first open humanoid reference design. It pairs a Unitree H2 chassis standing nearly six feet and weighing 150 pounds with 31 degrees of freedom, dual Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands adding 22 degrees of freedom for 75 in total, and NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000 onboard compute delivering 2,070 FP4 teraflops with a 14-core Arm CPU and 128GB of unified memory. Ai2, ETH Zurich, Stanford Robotics Center and UC San Diego's Advanced Robotics and Controls Laboratory will use the design, with availability from Unitree Robotics in late 2026.
An Atlas V carrying the Leo 7 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral at 7:53 p.m. EDT on 29 May 2026, delivering another 29 operational commercial satellites for Amazon's Leo constellation. ULA said the total constellation reached 331 satellites deployed, of which ULA had launched 197 - the majority of Amazon Leo satellites on orbit at that point.