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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local AI development, powered by Nvidia's new Arm-based RTX Spark chips and 128GB of unified memory  —  The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is designed for local-first AI development. … Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces developer tools for Windows: a set of Linux-like command line utilities called Coreutils, WSL containers, Intelligent Terminal, and more  —  Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its Linux subsystem even further into Windows.
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.
Engadget:
A live blog of Microsoft Build 2026, where the company is set to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning model, and Windows improvements for developers  —  We're expecting the presentation to last two and a half hours and cover a lot of ground.
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 …
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
OpenAI:
OpenAI releases a new knowledge work report: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers represent ~20% of Codex users  —  OpenAI today released a new report, The Next Era of Knowledge Work, showing how Codex is no longer just a coding tool.
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
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 …
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.
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.
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
GitHub Copilot's new pricing model takes effect; many users report sticker shock, with some saying a few hours of AI usage eats big chunks of their monthly caps  —  In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from request-based billing to a usage-based model for its AI-powered Copilot service.
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 …
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Bloomberg:
Alphabet is raising $80B through equity offerings, including a $10B investment deal with Berkshire, to fund AI spending, in one of the largest equity deals ever  —  Google parent Alphabet Inc. is raising $80 billion in equity offerings, including an investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway Inc. …
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 …
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Board, which makes a 24" touchscreen device that blends board games with video games' interactivity, raised a $20M Series A, and says it sold tens of thousands  —  Board, the three-year-old, New York-based startup building what it calls “together tech” — tech designed to bring people physically …
More: FinSMEs
Bloomberg:
Chinese procurement records: at least seven Chinese universities that support China's military and defense industry are seeking access to Nvidia's H200 chips  —  At least seven Chinese universities that support the country's armed forces and defense industry are seeking access to Nvidia Corp.'s H200 chips …
The Information:
Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; a source says Salesforce paid between $1B and $1.5B, a steep discount from Contentful's $3B valuation in 2021  —  Salesforce is acquiring Contentful, a provider of content management software for businesses, in the latest sign of its efforts …
Bloomberg:
Sources: the EU's €20B investment plan for five AI data centers is floundering, with delays and funding issues alienating some potential partners  —  SoftBank Announces €75 Bln AI Data Center Plan in France  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:01 Loaded: 15.31% Playback Rate
Meir Orbach / CTech:
Israeli data security startup Cyera raised $300M at a $12B valuation, after raising $400M at a $9B valuation in January  —  The Israeli data security company raised $400 million at a $9 billion valuation just five months ago.  —  AI and data security company Cyera has raised $300 million …
Tim Culpan / Culpium:
Sources: Intel faces a supply shortage of its Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake laptop chips built on its 18A process node; Intel says there are “some” shortages  —  [Exclusive] A shortage of processors at its comeback node has clients worried about stability of future supply.
More: Engadget

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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Politico corrects a story to say Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had no direct role in setting up Katie Zacharia's Sean Hannity interview, after a White House threat

Associated Press:
A federal judge orders Trump to sit for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by December 11, or face sanctions up to dismissal of the lawsuit

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