Nvidia signs a record $20 billion deal for assets of Groq startup

Petrol stations in Moscow and St Petersburg are introducing limits on the sale of petrol and diesel. The companies attribute these measures to market conditions and supply difficulties.

The Ukrainian wheat market is starting the 2026/27 season with substantial carryover stocks and favourable forecasts for the upcoming harvest. Towards the end of the current marketing year, export activity picked up significantly, boosting market sentiment and trade expectations.

The Head of the Government, Yulia Svyrydenko, noted that energy facilities remain one of the main targets of Russian attacks, particularly the latest one on 2 June.

The State Tax Service has announced that it has uncovered evidence of a large-scale scheme to transfer funds abroad via more than 2,300 companies. The total value of foreign trade transactions carried out by these entities exceeded 198 billion hryvnias.

Roman Lysakovsky, whom Oleksandr Tsyvinskyi recently appointed as acting head of the Kyiv regional office of the Economic Security Bureau, stated in his latest declaration that his wife—a dentist and owner of a dental practice in Ternopil—earned just over 60,000 UAH over the course of the year. However, she recently sold this practice, which was a successful business.

For the first time in several decades, eight crested ibises – a species that became extinct in Japan in the last century – have been released into the wild.

Ukraine has secured the establishment of a new specially protected area in Collins Bay, located near the Akademik Vernadsky station in Antarctica. The initiative was approved following three years of intensive international negotiations.

The State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine plans to develop a domestic industrial base for cryptographic solutions and to support research institutions.

Over the next 12 months, artificial intelligence, working in collaboration with humans, could make a scientific discovery that wins a Nobel Prize.

Tokyo University of Science in Japan has opened a laboratory where medical experiments are carried out by robots without human involvement.

The price of Bitcoin has fallen below $70,000 for the first time in nearly two months, standing at $69,660. The decline in the leading cryptocurrency has been triggered by geopolitical risks, the sale of MicroStrategy’s tokens and capital outflows from ETFs.

OpenAI запустила нові інструменти для структурування персональних фінансів у ChatGPT – вони дозволяють користувачам підключати банківські рахунки прямо до чат-бота. Система зможе аналізувати витрати, кредитні ліміти та заощадження та надавати індивідуальні поради.

Officials in Donald Trump’s administration have initiated the design of a $250 banknote featuring the president’s portrait. Such a move may contravene current US legislation, which permits only the images of deceased individuals to be featured on banknotes.

US senators from both parties have called on US Defence Secretary Pete Hagset to release $600 million in security aid to Ukraine and the Baltic states as soon as possible

Brian Mast, Chair of the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, has stated that Washington has no plans to approve new large-scale financial aid packages for Ukraine

Apple is developing a new feature for the latest iPhone operating system that will allow users to automatically split bills between people after a meal out or other events.

In May 2026, around 5,500 new passenger cars were registered in Ukraine. This is 18% fewer than in the same month last year. Compared with April this year, demand for new cars fell by 11%.

The combined value of the world’s 100 most valuable brands has reached a record $13.1 trillion, thanks to the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

The American company Tesla has once again topped the ranking of the world’s largest suppliers of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) for the period January to March.

On 31 May, the French navy detained another oil tanker, the Tagor, which was subject to sanctions and was sailing from Russia.