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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.| 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.
More: 404 Media, Microsoft 365 Blog, The Verge, TestingCatalog AI News, PYMNTS, Computerworld, XDA Developers, Command Line, Decrypt, PCWorld, WeRSM, Mashable, Axios, MakeUseOf, Thurrott, Neowin, Bloomberg, and TechCrunch
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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 … | 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.
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| Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: |
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| Barry Schwartz / 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 …
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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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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 … | New York Times: |
An analysis of 600+ Elon Musk claims over 15 years finds he met deadlines 19% of the time; he achieved 75% of his 2015 goals on time, but under 50% of 2020 ones — next month By the end of this year another 9 months or so end of month in 3 weeks this year in 2026 in April in <5 years on Jan 17 …
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| 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.| 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, The Information, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, PYMNTS, The Next Web, StartupHub.ai, The American Bazaar, The Tech Portal, WeRSM, 9to5Mac, and ABC News
| 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
| 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 … | 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: |
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 … | 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
| 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, New York Magazine, The Cut, Architectural Digest, Digital Trends, CNET, TechRadar, Mashable, TechCrunch, Android Central, Fox Business, Tom's Guide, 9to5Google, 9to5Toys, Macworld, and Retail Dive. LinkedIn: Will Haire
| 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.
More: Leiden Declaration, Ars Technica, Scientific American, Gizmodo, Memeburn, Implicator.ai, and Leiden University
Bluesky: @divbyzero and @jeffgreene
Mastodon: @WannesMalfait@mathstodon.xyz, @TaliaRinger@mathstodon.xyz, and @tomkalei@machteburch.social. Forums: Slashdot
| 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.| 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, The Block, and Crypto Briefing
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber limits all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool “to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption and experimentation at scale” — Uber Technologies Inc. has set usage caps on some artificial intelligence-powered tools used by its staff … Sponsor Posts
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