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Microsoft on YouTube:
A live stream of Microsoft's Build 2025 keynote  —  Join the Microsoft Build 2025 opening keynote, streamed live from Seattle.  Follow along as Satya Nadella and other top Microsoft leaders explore new opportunities in the age of AI and set the stage for what's ahead.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
More: EdSurge.  Bluesky: @patrickmccray and @ndhapple
X: @natashanyt and @uf_coe.  Forums: Slashdot
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 …
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 …

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Associated Press:
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