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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 …
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Forums: Hacker News and Hacker News
| 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: Implicator.ai, Simon Willison's Weblog, Thurrott, Crypto Briefing, Yahoo Finance, Seoul Economic Daily, CNBC, Decrypt, and ZDNET
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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, 9to5Mac, Livemint, Microsoft on YouTube, Windows Central, Tech Times, PCMag, Gizmodo, The Next Web, TechEBlog, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, AppleInsider, Thurrott, Android Authority, PCWorld, Ars Technica, Engadget, The Verge, and The Verge
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| 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, The Verge, Thurrott, and Search Engine Land
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/linux
| Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: |
More: Microsoft, StartupHub.ai, Constellation Research, and Thurrott
| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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.| Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC: |
Marvell shares closed up 32.52% on Tuesday after Jensen Huang hailed the chipmaker as the “next trillion-dollar company” at Computex — Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang hailed Marvell Technology as the next trillion-dollar firm, sending its shares up 32% on Tuesday.| 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 … | 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 … | 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, Benzinga, Bloomberg Law, and Investor's Business Daily
| 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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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/Surface
| 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| 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
| 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” …
More: Google, The Keyword, Droid Life, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, MakeUseOf, AndroidGuys, Ars Technica, How-To Geek, WeRSM, PhoneArena, Android Authority, and CNET
X: @racheltobac, @backlon, @racheltobac, and @racheltobac. LinkedIn: Dave Kleidermacher. Bluesky: @couts
Forums: r/technology, r/Android, and r/Scams
| 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 … | Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Source: Google asked Google Play app devs to join a “confidential content offer pilot”, offering to pay for access to codebases to use them to train AI tools — Google is trying to buy code from some Android developers as part of a “confidential” program.
More: Neowin. Bluesky: @alisonborealis, @jasonkoebler, @josephcox, @joolia, and @mattzollerseitz. Forums: r/Android
| 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: Digit, Command Line, Command Line, Microsoft Edge Blog, and The Verge
X: @swyx, @tomwarren, @film_girl, @altryne, @satyanadella, @tomwarren, @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.
Bluesky: @parismarx.com and @rustybrick.com. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social. Forums: Slashdot
| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M — OpenAI's ChatGPT has crossed 1 billion global monthly active app users, becoming the fastest app ever to reach the milestone … Sponsor Posts
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