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| Imran Rahman-Jones / BBC: |
The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google's AI Overviews search results, giving Google nine months to implement the changes — Online publishers can choose not to appear in the AI Overviews of Google search results n the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced.| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Google says it is testing a new toggle inside its Search Console with some UK domain owners, letting them decide whether their sites appear in AI search results — The company says opting out won't impact placement in regular searches. — More than three years after it began rolling … | 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 …
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| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
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| 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, Qualcomm, Bloomberg, T3, Stratechery, BBC, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, Business Standard, Microsoft on YouTube, The Overspill, Livemint, Tech Times, Memeburn, Windows Central, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, TechEBlog, Android Authority, PCWorld, PCMag, The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge, The Verge, and TechCrunch
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: GitHub, Windows Developer Blog, Microsoft, Phoronix, BleepingComputer, XDA Developers, Neowin, The New Stack, Thurrott, and PCWorld
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
More: The Rundown AI, Windows Blog, Tech Times, WinCentral, Sources, Implicator.ai, The GitHub Blog, TechCrunch, Thurrott, and Search Engine Land
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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 …
More: The White House, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, The Atlantic, CSO, Infosecurity, The Verge, TechRadar, Axios, Reuters, The Guardian, Deadline, The Free Press, RedState, SiliconANGLE, Washington Post, ZeroHedge News, Breitbart, Implicator.ai, Associated Press, NBC News, Council on Foreign Relations, CNBC, Federal News Network, Breaking Defense, Bloomberg Law, One America News Network, Android Authority, and Financial Times
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Bluesky: @stevekovach, @davidakaye, @bluedotin, and @climatebrad.hillheat.com
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/politics
| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Source: SpaceX aims to raise $75B in its IPO, selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, an unusual move as companies typically set a price range before their 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 …
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| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Internal memo: Meta is scaling back elements of its MCI 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.| Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to below $67K on June 2 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.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal proprietary model with a 1M-token context window, costing $2 per 1M tokens, 60% less than text-only Qwen3.7-Max — However, like its immediate predecessor Qwen3.7-Plus is available only under a “closed” commercial license via proprietary application …
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| 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 … | Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC: |
Marvell's shares closed up 32.52% on Tuesday after Jensen Huang hailed the US data center chipmaker as the “next trillion-dollar company” at Computex 2026 — Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang hailed Marvell Technology as the next trillion-dollar firm, sending its shares up 32% on Tuesday.
More: Axios, Business Standard, Barron's Online, Inc.com, Seoul Economic Daily, and Watcher Guru
| 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 … | Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Source: Google asked Google Play app developers to join a “confidential content offer pilot”, offering to pay for codebase access to use it to train AI tools — Google is trying to buy code from some Android developers as part of a “confidential” program.
More: Forbes, Android Authority, and Neowin
Bluesky: @alisonborealis, @joolia, @mattzollerseitz, @josephcox, and @jasonkoebler. Forums: r/Android
| 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/Scams, and r/Android
| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Doc: Apple agreed in May to submit the financials of its India business to the country's antitrust body as part of an investigation over alleged market abuses — Apple has agreed to submit the financials of its India business to the country's antitrust body as part of an investigation …
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, Business Today, Inc42, Livemint, and The Next Web
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $3B, including $388M from CyberArk and Chronosphere, above $2.94B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. — - Palo Alto Networks topped Wall Street's third-quarter estimates, citing AI advancements| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Mastercard says it plans to offer on-chain settlement using several regulated USD stablecoins, initially supporting USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD, and SoFiUSD — The company plans to offer stablecoin, weekend and holiday settlement as demand grows for real-time movement of money. … What to know:
More: Mastercard, The Block, CoinGape, crypto.news, Blockonomi, Crypto Briefing, and PYMNTS
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Microsoft announces Scout, an always-on enterprise AI agent built on OpenClaw that appears as a Microsoft Teams contact to automate tasks such as scheduling — 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, The Verge, Digit, WinBuzzer, The Indian Express, Help Net Security, Command Line, TestingCatalog AI News, Android Authority, Developer Tech News, Notebookcheck, WinCentral, Mashable, Axios, MakeUseOf, The Deep View, XDA Developers, Thurrott, Neowin, and TechCrunch
X: @microsoft365, @steipete, @satyanadella, and @omarshahine
LinkedIn: Adam Sheppard and Brenna Robinson
Bluesky: @josephcox, @emanuelmaiberg, and @jasonkoebler. Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a “worm” powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer — Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program … | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investment, and transparency about usage — The company promises to replenish more water than it uses by 2030. … In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center …
More: Axios, The Keyword, and Wired
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Europol and international law enforcement agencies dismantle nine organized crime groups and arrest 29 in a crackdown on illegal streaming, removing 27K URLs — European and international law enforcement agencies have dismantled nine organized crime groups and arrested 29 suspects in a major crackdown on illegal streaming operations.
More: Europol
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
ESA and YouGov: 212.3M people in the US between the ages of 5 and 90 play video games every week, up 3% from 2025; the average age of players rises to 37 — Two-thirds of Americans play an hour or more of video games per week, according to a new report published Wednesday by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA).
More: GamesIndustry.biz, Kotaku, and Polygon.com
| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
How Revolut founder Nikolay Storonsky's Elon Musk-style pay incentives pushed his fortune to ~$20.4B, making him the UK's richest person, ahead of a planned IPO — CEO Nik Storonsky turned a scrappy startup into a fintech juggernaut — now he has to convince the world that his company is as safe as a bank
More: Reuters
| Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: |
The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction — Google, which is raising a fresh $80 billion, has a strategy for getting around the biggest bottleneck| Financial Times: |
How OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI startups are pursuing “recursive self-improvement”, in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input — Industry chiefs say technology within their grasp is the key to superintelligence. Safety experts say we're not ready.| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Supercell, King, and Sybo warn that EU's Digital Fairness Act, requiring pop-ups showing real-world values of virtual currencies, could make games “unplayable” — Makers of ‘Clash of Clans’, ‘Candy Crush Saga’ and ‘Subway Surfers’ warn EU proposals could throttle rare tech success| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a $100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a $600M valuation — Samsung, Mitsubishi Electric and Carrier back data center infrastructure company from Sderot.
More: FinSMEs, DatacenterDynamics, Ventureburn, and SiliconANGLE
| Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO — Firm raises $350 million from investors including Accenture and JPMorgan's asset-management unit.Sponsor Posts
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