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ET Alpha Wealth Summit | Kotak's Nilesh Shah bets on India's electrification story over next decade; flags AI as the wildcard

India's energy self-sufficiency is a decade-long investment theme, driven by aggressive electrification to reduce import dependence. Experts highlight solar, storage, and nuclear power, alongside transmission infrastructure. The shift to EVs faces rare-earth bottlenecks, prompting domestic innovation. AI offers another significant, albeit different, growth avenue. Investors should manage thematic risks by…

The Economic Times

Who Is Michael Truell? The 25-Year-Old Cursor CEO Behind Spacex's $60 Billion Deal Option

Cursor CEO sold his AI coding startup to SpaceX for $60bn. The MIT dropout became Silicon Valley's fastest-rising tech entrepreneur but tech community is divided over this record-breaking acquisition.

International Business Times UK

Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just cemented a $60 billion deal with SpaceX

From Google intern at 18 to a billionaire at 25, Cursor CEO Michael Truell’s rise is one of Silicon Valley’s fastest.

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Yes, EVs Really Are Cleaner Than Gas Cars. Here's By How Much

A new MIT-led study finds EVs beat gas cars on emissions almost everywhere, but your ZIP code and driving habits decide how big the advantage is.

InsideEVs

Ex-Disney star Bridgit Mendler reveals she was rejected hundreds of times by Hollywood—but it primed her for her current job as a space start-up CEO

Bridgit Mendler says her success is fueled by a “very high tolerance for risk”—thanks, in part, to her experience as a Disney Channel star.

Fortune

3D-printed nozzles could revolutionize drug and self-healing material manufacturing — MIT-developed triaxial electrospray design makes cleanroom fabrication optional

MIT's 3D-printed triaxial electrospray nozzles could revolutionize drug and self-healing material manufacturing. By using a relatively inexpensive resin printing approach, the new nozzle fabrication technique removes the need for a semiconductor-class cleanroom facility.

Tom’s Hardware

SuperAI Singapore 2026 Sells Out: Asia's Largest AI Event Brings Together 10,000 Global Innovators

SINGAPORE, June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperAI Singapore 2026 has officially sold out, bringing 10,000 attendees to Marina Bay Sands this week for Asia's largest AI event. The event convenes AI leaders, frontier technologists, investors, researchers and builders from across 150+ countries, representing more than 1,500 of the world's most…

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Thruster breakthrough? New 2-in-1 propulsion system is about to get an in-space test

A new propulsion system feeds the same "monopropellant" fuel into electrical and chemical thrusters, potentially saving on mass and complications for future missions to Mars.

Space

MIT researchers channel AI to turn hand gestures into robot training data

Humanoid robots struggling with tasks like grasping a cup have a new teacher — a person wearing an ultrasound wristband that captures the movement of muscles, tendons and ligaments beneath the skin

The Independent UK

Exclusive: Goldman Sachs intern acceptance rate falls below 1% for third straight year

It's harder to get a Goldman Sachs internship than to get accepted into Harvard, MIT or Stanford.

Fortune

'F**k AI, F**k It to Death': Ronny Chieng Tells Harvard Graduates to 'Destroy AI' in Viral Address [Watch]

Daily Show host and comedian Ronny Chieng urged Harvard's Class of 2026 to 'kill' AI, citing MIT research on cognitive decline amid the university's $56.9B endowment.

International Business Times UK

Quote of the day by Paul Krugman: 'Debt is one person's liability, but another person's...' - financial lessons and insights on role of debt in the economy, flow of money and growth of wealth by Nobel Prize-winning economist and pioneer of New Trade Theory

Quote of the day by Paul Krugman: Nobel laureate Paul Krugman sheds light on debt, emphasizing it's a two-sided coin. While a borrower's liability, it's a lender's asset, forming a crucial link in the financial system. This perspective reveals debt's productive role in economic growth, enabling investments and future returns,…

The Economic Times

The MIT professor who taught the math behind every AI tool for 61 years gave the world something most universities never would

Professor Gilbert Strang taught linear algebra for 61 years. His free online lectures, part of MIT OpenCourseWare, reached millions globally. These lectures made complex math accessible to students and professionals. Strang's clear teaching style and free availability of his work created a lasting educational legacy. His impact continues to empower…

The Economic Times

What If You Start Calling Yourself Jane Smith, and Sue as Jane Smith, Instead of Asking to Sue Under a Pseudonym?

Suing under a pseudonym can often be quite valuable to a plaintiff; for instance, someone suing over alleged mistreatment by… The post What If You Start Calling Yourself Jane Smith, and Sue as Jane Smith, Instead of Asking to Sue Under a Pseudonym? appeared first on Reason.com.

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'AI is a Perfect Excuse': MIT Expert Exposes How Tech Firms Use AI Washing to Mask Massive Layoffs

An MIT economist reveals how Silicon Valley firms are using AI as a cover for mass layoffs, reshaping the workforce narrative to protect stock prices and justify redundancies.

TechRadar

MIT scientists make lithium-ion breakthrough that could solve a global battery issue — new low-cost extraction method was inspired by a bathroom renovation project and could reduce reliance on China

Most gadgets rely on lithium-ion batteries, and scientists have come up with a better way of getting at lithium.

Fortune

AMD CEO Lisa Su tells grads they shape the future, not AI—and the world doesn’t just need ‘people who know how to use powerful tools’

AMD CEO Lisa Su tells MIT graduates that knowing how to use the tools isn’t enough—and the impacts from AI are “actually our responsibilities.”

PC Gamer

AMD chief Dr. Lisa Su tells MIT graduates, 'Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like. People do'

"[AI] cannot make the hard judgment calls with imperfect information. It cannot take responsibility for the outcome."

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Boston Tech Week 2026 Opens Tomorrow: a16z Brings 572 Events to Kendall Square

Boston Tech Week 2026 opens tomorrow with 572 events across Kendall Square, the Seaport, and six other neighborhoods — registration is free for most sessions at tech-week.com/calendar/boston. The inaugural a16z-presented festival runs May 26–31 and brings together biotech, AI, deep tech, and robotics programming from over 80 founding hosts including…

Euronews

What if AI could move your hand? Students build a wearable device using AI and electric pulses

The prototype system was developed in just 48 hours during a hackathon.

We Got This Covered

Donald Trump has ‘better blood’ and has to tell people he is ‘real smart’ – he already told Thomas Massie thrice

“That means I have much better blood.”

The Mary Sue

Florida triplets just pulled off the ultimate academic hat trick – same perfect GPA, same college, and one prank that fooled every teacher

These Florida triplets just pulled off the ultimate academic hat trick, and it’s one for the books. Aiden, Brody, and Colin Aysun weren’t just named valedictorians of their high school – they all earned the exact same perfect Grade Point Average. Now, they’re heading to the same college together, and…

Tom’s Hardware

Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week — his Magnetic Core Memory patent would be granted five years later

Granted as U.S. Patent 2,736,880 in February 1956, Forrester's invention evolved from MIT's Project Whirlwind.

Fortune

“I had to turn down President Obama”

Celebrating its tenth anniversary with a tech “take-over” of the Champs-Élysées in Paris, Publicis’ Maurice Lévy reveals why “not having a plan” was the only way to launch VivaTech, Europe’s biggest tech conference.

Reason

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