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| 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 …
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| 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
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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, Tech Times, Gizmodo, WinBuzzer, Nikkei Asia, Blockonomi, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, Neowin, Pulse 2.0, and COINOTAG
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| 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 … | 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.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft unveils Microsoft Execution Containers, a Windows-level sandbox for AI agents, and says partners OpenAI, Nvidia, Manus, and Nous Research are using it — For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code …
More: Windows Blog, CRN, TechTarget, The Verge, Thurrott, and Search Engine Land
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| 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, Windows Blog, BleepingComputer, Phoronix, XDA Developers, PCWorld, Thurrott, Neowin, and The New Stack
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| Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: |
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| 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
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| 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 Android smartphone — Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation signal” …
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Forums: r/technology, r/Android, and r/Scams
| 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 … | Gavin Finch / Reuters: |
The US sanctions Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, accusing it of helping Iran's government and blacklisted state institutions evade Western sanctions — The United States announced sanctions on Iran's biggest cryptocurrency exchange on Tuesday, accusing it of enabling the Iranian government … | 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.
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LinkedIn: Omar Shahine, Adam Sheppard, Brenna Robinson, and Jeff Teper
Bluesky: @jasonkoebler, @josephcox, and @emanuelmaiberg. Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
Forums: r/ChatGPT, r/UnderReportedNews, r/nottheonion, r/ABoringDystopia, and r/FuckMicrosoft
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Google selling $10B of equity to Berkshire is fascinating and functions as a signal that AI demand is high, in a world where the most cash buys the most compute — What does the most beautiful business model of all time look like? — First, imagine that your supply is free.
| 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.| 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 …
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X: @mweinbach, @pavandavuluri, @geforce_jacobf, @surface, @windowscentral, @tomwarren, @film_girl, @shishirshelke1, @zacbowden, @yiningkarlli, @windowsdev, @microsoft, @msdev, @satyanadella, and @joannastern. LinkedIn: Andrew E. Freedman. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/Surface
| 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, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, The Information, StartupHub.ai, The American Bazaar, The Tech Portal, WeRSM, 9to5Mac, ABC News, The Next Web, and Neowin
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: a Broadcom-backed portion of Apollo and Blackstone's $36B debt deal to buy TPUs for Anthropic to lease may yield ~5.75% vs. 8%-9% for a riskier portion — Broadcom Inc.'s promise to backstop the largest portion of a record-setting microchip financing deal for Anthropic is keeping yields … | 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: Command Line, Microsoft Edge Blog, Command Line, and The Verge
X: @swyx, @tomwarren, @film_girl, @altryne, @satyanadella, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @film_girl, and @marcusash
| Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to below $67K on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy's first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% — Souring Bitcoin sentiment has triggered almost $1.5 billion in crypto liquidations over the past 24 hours, as the largest digital asset sank back to a two-month low.
More: Bitcoin Magazine and Crypto Briefing
| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Source: SpaceX plans to raise $75B in its IPO by selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, an unusual move since most companies set a price range before the roadshow — SpaceX plans to raise $75 billion in its initial public offering by selling 555.6 million shares at a target price of $135 per share …
More: Bloomberg, Bloomberg Law, and Investor's Business Daily
| 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.
Bluesky: @parismarx.com and @rustybrick.com. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social. Forums: Slashdot
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $3B, including $388M from CyberArk and Chronosphere, vs. $2.94B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. — - Palo Alto Networks topped Wall Street's third-quarter estimates, citing AI advancements| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing a Series feature, letting select creators make episodic Reels that are placed in a dedicated hub on their profile, using both old and new Reels — Meta is testing a new “Series” feature for Reels that's designed to make it easier to keep up with serialized content on Instagram and Facebook, the company told TechCrunch.| 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, Vogue, The Cut, Architectural Digest, CNET, New York Magazine, Mashable, Android Central, Fox Business, Tom's Guide, 9to5Google, Macworld, Retail Dive, and TechRadar. LinkedIn: Will Haire
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