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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning AI model, trained “from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models” — MAI-Thinking-1 is one of seven new models announced at Build 2026. … Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models …
More: Mashable, Nikkei Asia, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, and Blockonomi
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Microsoft announces seven AI models, including a reasoning one and an “ultra efficient” coding one fine-tuned for GitHub, for businesses and to lower its costs — Software giant's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says focus is on developing products for business users
More: Microsoft AI, GeekWire, Thurrott, ZDNET, Yahoo Finance, Crypto Briefing, and CNBC
X: @swyx, @mustafasuleyman, @eliebakouch, @tomwarren, and @altryne. LinkedIn: Young Jin Kim. Forums: r/singularity
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman about its models catching up to the state of the art from months ago, refusing to distill models, and more — THE SCENE — Not long ago, Microsoft leapt ahead of competitors by funding OpenAI when it was a fledgling research lab.| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Microsoft and Mayo Clinic partner for an AI model trained on Mayo's medical data, with plans to build an AI healthcare assistant and AI tools for clinicians — People have been seeking out health information online since the dawn of the internet. And now, tens of millions of people … | Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Microsoft announces Scout, an always-on enterprise AI agent built on OpenClaw, appearing as a Microsoft Teams contact to automate tasks like scheduling and more — Microsoft's OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks.
More: 404 Media, Microsoft 365 Blog, Computerworld, Decrypt, PCWorld, The Information, Thurrott, TechCrunch, The Verge, WeRSM, Axios, Command Line, Neowin, Bloomberg, and Mashable
LinkedIn: Brenna Robinson and Omar Shahine
Bluesky: @josephcox, @emanuelmaiberg, and @jasonkoebler
Forums: r/nottheonion and r/ChatGPT
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces developer tools for Windows: a set of Linux-like command line utilities called Coreutils, WSL containers, an Intelligent Terminal, and more — Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its Linux subsystem even further into Windows.
More: GitHub, Microsoft, The New Stack, The New Stack, Windows Blog, Thurrott, XDA Developers, PCWorld, Neowin, and WinCentral
X: @xenopanther, @bdsams, @mweinbach, @windowsdev, and @tomwarren
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices, with concept hardware and pilots planned at Best Buy, Target, and others — [Editor's Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire series, underwritten by Accenture, exploring the adoption and impact of AI and agents.
More: Command Line, Thurrott, PCMag, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Information, The Verge, The Verge, The Next Web, and Microsoft on YouTube
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
More: Bing Blogs, VentureBeat, ZDNET, CNET, Search Engine Journal, and Command Line
| Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: |
More: Thurrott, Microsoft, Constellation Research, and StartupHub.ai
| Sophia Cai / Politico: |
President Trump signs a scaled-back AI EO that seeks to address AI's cybersecurity threats; sources say it imposes less scrutiny on AI than the scrapped version — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a scaled-back executive order that seeks to address the cybersecurity threats …
More: The White House, CSO, New York Times, TechCrunch, Reuters, The Record, The Verge, Decrypt, Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, Associated Press, Cybersecurity Dive, The Information, Financial Times, International Business Times, The Guardian, Washington Examiner, Engadget, PYMNTS, Dow Jones Newswires, Axios, CNBC, Motley Fool, UPI, Mashable, The Washington Star, The Hill, Dallas Express, Barron's Online, CBS News, Washington Times, Newser, Deadline, Nextgov/FCW, Daily Caller News Foundation, Newsweek, NOTUS, CoinGape, Yahoo Finance, Forbes, and NewsMax.com
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Forums: Hacker News and r/politics
| Financial Times: |
Anthropic says it will extend Project Glasswing to organizations in 15+ countries, sources say giving Mythos access to Five Eyes, NATO, Samsung, SK, and others — About 150 organisations will be given advanced cyber security model following requests from around the world
More: Anthropic, CyberScoop, The New Stack, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Mercury News, PYMNTS, Nextgov/FCW, Implicator.ai, Decrypt, Engadget, Cybersecurity Dive, Yahoo Finance, Blockonomi, 9to5Mac, Cyber Security News, Reuters, Seoul Economic Daily, SecurityWeek, The Decoder, Politico, and Bloomberg
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils a Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, featuring Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark, 128GB of unified memory, and a 100W thermal envelope, for local AI tasks — The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is designed for local-first AI development. … Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra …
More: Microsoft Devices Blog, Thurrott, The Information, SiliconANGLE, Windows Central, PCWorld, Reuters, PCMag, The Verge, XDA Developers, Tom's Hardware, Engadget, VideoCardz.com, VentureBeat, The Tech Portal, Neowin, Firstpost, WinCentral, and Notebookcheck
X: @geforce_jacobf, @surface, @mweinbach, @windowsdev, @microsoft, @windowscentral, @tomwarren, and @film_girl. LinkedIn: Andrew E. Freedman. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk. Forums: r/Surface
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Microsoft unveils Majorana 2, a quantum chip that it developed using AI tools for materials science, and says it will have commercial quantum machines by 2029 — Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Tuesday unveiled a new quantum computing chip that it redesigned with the help of AI …
More: Microsoft, BBC, Tom's Hardware, Microsoft Quantum, Bloomberg, The Verge, The Next Web, Constellation Research, and Scientific American. Forums: r/singularity
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google adds a scam-detection feature, built on RCS, to Android 12 and later that verifies whether a call is coming from the caller's actual smartphone — Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation signal” … | New York Times: |
An analysis of 600+ Elon Musk claims over 15 years finds he met deadlines 19% of the time; he achieved 75% of his 2015 goals on time, but under 50% of 2020 ones — next month By the end of this year another 9 months or so end of month in 3 weeks this year in 2026 in April in <5 years on Jan 17 … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI unveils new Codex plugins for tasks related to public equity investment, banking and sales, and other roles, and plans to integrate Codex into ChatGPT — OpenAI is expanding the functionality of its artificial intelligence coding agent for a number of professions beyond software engineering …
More: OpenAI, PYMNTS, TechCrunch, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Neowin, ABC News, StartupHub.ai, The Tech Portal, WeRSM, and The American Bazaar
X: @openai and @stockmktnewz
| Arriana McLymore / Reuters: |
Amazon schedules Prime Day for June 23 to June 26, shifting the four-day sales event from July to avoid the end of the FIFA World Cup and US Independence Day — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) will host its annual Prime Day sales event from June 23 to June 26 after launching the event in July for the past five years …
More: PCWorld, About Amazon, Macworld, New York Magazine, 9to5Google, iClarified, Architectural Digest, Fox Business, Android Central, IGN, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Fox News, Thurrott, The Cut, Digital Trends, ZDNET, 9to5Mac, CNET, 9to5Toys, Retail Dive, The Verge, GB News, Wired, Mashable, TechCrunch, The Next Web, PhoneArena, PYMNTS, StartupHub.ai, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Page Six, E! Online, and Sherwood News. LinkedIn: Will Haire
| Engadget: |
A live blog of Microsoft Build 2026, where the company launched seven AI models, developer tools for Windows, a GitHub Copilot app, Project Solara, and more — We're expecting the presentation to last two and a half hours and cover a lot of ground. — Developer conference season continues …
More: The Verge, CNET, Command Line, Command Line, and PCMag
X: @swyx, @satyanadella, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @film_girl, @altryne, @tomwarren, @film_girl, and @marcusash
| Politico: |
Email: the EU Parliament plans to replace Google with the French search engine Qwant as the default search tool on its computers, seeking digital sovereignty — The switch lands as EU officials prepare a broader push to wean off US tech. — BRUSSELS — Move over, Google.| Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: |
Sixteen mathematicians publish the Leiden Declaration on AI and Mathematics to warn of potential threats to the field, such as around accuracy and reliability — A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline.
More: Leiden Declaration, Scientific American, Gizmodo, Memeburn, Implicator.ai, The Next Web, and Leiden University
Bluesky: @jeffgreene and @divbyzero
| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Internal memo: Meta is scaling back elements of its employee tracking tool, launched in April to help train its AI models, after staff raised concerns — Meta Platforms is scaling back elements of its employee tracking tool after staff raised concerns about the tool, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Information.| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber says it has limited all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool “to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption” — Uber Technologies Inc. has set usage caps on some artificial intelligence-powered tools used by its staff, a move meant to manage costs … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Perplexity announces a feature that lets Perplexity Computer split tasks between on-device AI models and server-based models — Perplexity has announced a major new feature coming soon to Perplexity Computer: the ability to split tasks between local and cloud models.| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Valve, which PrivCo estimates generated $5.2B in revenue and $1.5B in net income in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power — Lawsuits in the US and the UK allege the company's Steam store is abusing its market power. Valve disagrees.
More: HotHardware, Aftermath, PC Gamer, IGN, Game World Observer, Gameranx, GamingBolt, Dexerto, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun
X: @gorellana09, @pirat_nation, @timsweeneyepic, @ghhill1911, @timsweeneyepic, @linalavendula, @barrydinglesak, @georgebsocial, @business, @cecianasta, and @cecianasta
Forums: r/gaming, r/pcgaming, r/Games, and r/Steam
| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including about nutrition, weightlifting, and anxiety — The changes, after Meta's legal losses in two child safety cases, are aimed at limiting harmful content shown to teenagers on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.
More: Meta Newsroom, Quartz, Design It For Us, Gizmodo, ABC News, The Next Web, Channel NewsAsia, Mashable, Help Net Security, WeRSM, and Engadget
| The Economist: |
SpaceX's, Anthropic's, and OpenAI's IPOs could add up to $4T in US stock market value within months, fueling concerns they could herald more capital raising — They promise to be the biggest stockmarket debuts ever. On June 11th SpaceX reportedly hopes to raise $75bn from investors …
More: Axios, Tech Brew, Financial Times, Benzinga, and New York Times
X: @quinnypig. Bluesky: @jessefelder.com. Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social. Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/Finanzen
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