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Intel is bringing a chip to every computing category at Computex. The last time it could do that, it was the company everyone was trying to catch.

Intel will show Panther Lake Arc G3 handhelds, a 52-core Nova Lake desktop, and 288-core Clearwater Forest Xeon at Computex 2026. All are built on the 18A node.
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China’s humanoid robot boom faces reality check as 150 companies chase a market where only 23% of buyers are satisfied

China has 150+ humanoid robot companies and 90% global market share but only 23% buyer satisfaction. Morgan Stanley warns of a shake-out as IPOs outpace demand.
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In April 2025, Intel was trading at $18. Fourteen months later it hit an all-time high. The turnaround was not built by Intel alone.

Intel stock climbed 14% on Apple chip manufacturing talks, extending a 330% rally since the government took a 10% stake. The 18A node is drawing Apple, Musk, and Amazon.
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AI-native spending surged 94 per cent. Traditional SaaS grew at eight. The enterprise software industry is watching the clock.

AI-native spending grew 94% YoY while traditional SaaS hit 8%. The SaaSpocalypse erased $285B in software valuations. Every enterprise vendor is pivoting to agents.
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Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.

VW now holds 15.9% of Rivian after a $1B share purchase, displacing Amazon for the first time since the 2021 IPO. The investment buys software VW failed to build.
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Anthropic ships ten financial-services agents and pulls Moody’s inside Claude. The bank-software business is being rewritten.

Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.7, a library of ~10 pre-built financial-services agents, a Moody's native app, an FIS-built AML investigator going live at BMO.
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QuantWare lands €152m to build the world’s largest open-architecture quantum processor fab in Delft

QuantWare has closed a €152m Series B led by Intel Capital, In-Q-Tel, and ETF Partners, the largest Dutch deeptech round ever.
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The designer whose Tropicana rebrand crashed sales 20 per cent is now branding the US government. He has two months.

Peter Arnell is now America's first chief brand architect, tasked with unifying 27,000 federal websites by July 4. The studio has already failed accessibility audits.
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Five major publishers are suing Meta over Llama. They have evidence that the previous plaintiffs did not.

Five major publishers sued Meta in Manhattan federal court on 5 May 2026, alleging Llama was trained on pirated material.
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Intel hires Qualcomm veteran Alex Katouzian to lead a new Client Computing and Physical AI group

Intel has hired Alex Katouzian, a 25-year Qualcomm veteran, to lead a new combined Client Computing and Physical AI group. It is the second senior Qualcomm hire of CEO Lip-Bu Tan's tenure.
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Meta is raising $13bn for one Texas data centre, a new ceiling for single-site AI financings

Meta Platforms is working with Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan on a $13bn financing package for a single El Paso data centre, one of the largest single-site digital-infrastructure deals ever.
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Fervo Energy launches $1.33bn IPO, the largest climate-tech listing of 2026

Fervo Energy launched its IPO roadshow targeting up to $1.33bn at $21-24 per share, in a Nasdaq listing positioned as the climate-tech vehicle for the AI infrastructure trade.