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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
GitHub announces an AI coding agent for GitHub Copilot that can fix bugs, add features, improve docs, and more, and open-sources GitHub Copilot in VS Code — The AI coding agent will start working once a developer assigns it a task. … GitHub is launching an AI coding agent that can do things …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches an open project called NLWeb to help devs add a “conversational interface” to their website in a few lines of code — As part of an effort to make building AI-powered chatbots on the web simpler, Microsoft is launching an open project called NLWeb.
More: The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Microsoft, Beebom, MobileSyrup, and Neowin
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft open-sources the Windows Subsystem for Linux, launched in 2016, and makes it available on GitHub, except for a few Windows-specific components — Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a few components that are part of Windows.
More: Windows Blog, The Verge, The New Stack, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Register, XDA Developers, BetaNews, Liliputing, Neowin, and Phoronix
Forums: Hacker News and r/linux
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Protesters disrupt Build keynote; one then emailed thousands of Microsoft coworkers calling the company's report on its tech's impact on Gaza civilians a “lie” — Microsoft employee Joe Lopez sent an email to thousands of colleagues after interrupting the Build keynote.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini to its Azure AI Foundry service — Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini are both coming to Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry service. … I reported in my Notepad newsletter earlier this month that Microsoft was getting ready to host Elon Musk's Grok AI models, and now it's official.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds support for Anthropic's open-source standard Model Context Protocol to Windows and rebrands the AI platform inside Windows as Windows AI Foundry — Microsoft is embracing Model Context Protocol as part of a push to reshape Windows in a world of AI agents.
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces experimental cross-platform APIs for Edge to give web apps access to models built into Edge, like Microsoft's Phi-4-mini — A new set of APIs gives web apps the ability to offer prompt boxes and writing tools that use local AI models through the Edge browser.
More: Moneycontrol, Thurrott, Windows Central, TechCrunch, Neowin, Windows Blog, and Windows Latest
| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia unveils NVLink Fusion, which lets clients use NVLink to couple non-Nvidia CPUs or accelerators with Nvidia's GPUs in their rack-scale setups to boost AI — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang outlined plans to let customers deploy rivals' chips in data centers built around …
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| Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal: |
Nvidia plans to build an AI supercomputer with Foxconn and Taiwan's government that will support local researchers and enterprises; TSMC plans to use the system — The company also said it is deepening partnerships with Taiwan's system manufacturers — Nvidia is deepening its partnerships …
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The UK says hackers breached its Legal Aid Agency to steal a “significant amount of personal data” from people who received legal aid across England and Wales — Hackers have stolen a “significant amount of personal data” from people who received legal aid across England and Wales, the UK's Ministry of Justice said.| Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: |
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals says it will acquire 23andMe's assets, including its Personal Genome Service, for $256M, set to close in Q3, in the bankruptcy auction — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said it will acquire substantially all of 23andMe's assets — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases a standalone NotebookLM app for Android — As previewed earlier this month, Google today released the NotebookLM app for Android ahead of I/O 2025. — This native experience starts on a homepage of your notebooks with filters at the top for Recent, Shared, Title, and Downloaded.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI agents and MCP, web search, NLWeb, the relationship with OpenAI, how new hardware and optimizations benefit AI, more — Today, I'm talking with Kevin Scott, the chief technology officer of Microsoft and one of the company's AI leaders.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple's AI efforts, John Giannandrea's tenure, Craig Federighi's reservations to invest in generative AI, and its acquisitions, including Siri — Insiders say continued failure to get artificial intelligence right threatens everything from the iPhone's dominance to plans for robots and other futuristic products.
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| Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac: |
| Twinnie Siu / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Taiwan-based Apple supplier Hon Hai plans to inject $1.5B into its India unit via its Singaporean subsidiary, as production shifts away from China — The Taiwan-based company said in an exchange filing on Monday that it had made the investment through its Singaporean subsidiary.
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, Apple Must, iPhone in Canada, Mobile World Live, iClarified, Business Standard, and Semafor. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the third-largest US school district, trained 1,000+ educators on AI and gave Gemini to 105K+ students, the largest US rollout — One morning in April, Tracy Lowd, a social studies teacher in Miami, tried a new approach to making government policy come alive for her high school students.| Jo Borrás / Electrek: |
Chinese state-backed company Huaneng deploys 100+ all-electric autonomous haul trucks powered by Huawei's 5G-Advanced network at the Yimin open-pit mine — Powered by tech giant Huawei 5G-Advanced network, a fleet of over 100 Huaneng Ruichi all-electric autonomous haul trucks …
More: South China Morning Post and POWER Magazine
| Chris Thomas / Android Police:NEW |
Verizon halts its launch of the Moto Razr 2025 foldable with some in-progress shipments reversed, amid rumors of fire hazards and quarantines of in-store stock — I went hands-on with Motorola's three new Razrs, and they're familiar, fashionable, and deeply frustrating — Read update
More: TalkAndroid.com
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who transformed himself from an academic into a CEO; as of April, Anthropic was on track to hit $2B in annual revenue — Dario Amodei has transformed himself from an academic into the CEO of a $61 billion startup. — Anthropic Chief Executive …
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| Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
AMD announces it will sell the server-manufacturing business of recently acquired US-based ZT Systems to Sanmina in a $3B deal — AMD will sell the server-manufacturing business of recently acquired ZT Systems to Sanmina in a $3 billion deal, making the U.S.-based contract manufacturer … | Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Experts blame Big Tech lawyers' culture of lawlessness for Amazon, Apple, and Google being accused of abusing legal privilege in antitrust and other court cases — Amazon, Apple, Google are all being accused of abusing legal privilege in battles to strip away their power| CNBC: |
Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan will now let clients buy bitcoin, adding “We're not going to custody it. We're going to put it in statements for clients.” — JPMorgan Chase is finally allowing clients to buy bitcoin. But CEO Jamie Dimon is still a skeptic.
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