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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 … | 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.| 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.
More: GitHub, Microsoft, Windows Blog, XDA Developers, Windows Central, The New Stack, The New Stack, Thurrott, Neowin, and PCWorld
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| 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, Computerworld, XDA Developers, Decrypt, TestingCatalog AI News, PCWorld, The Information, Command Line, Thurrott, MakeUseOf, TechCrunch, The Verge, WeRSM, Axios, Neowin, Bloomberg, and Mashable
LinkedIn: Adam Sheppard, Jeff Teper, Brenna Robinson, and Omar Shahine
Forums: r/nottheonion and r/ChatGPT
| Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: |
More: Thurrott, Microsoft, Constellation Research, and StartupHub.ai
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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” … | 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
| 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 … | 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, Command Line, and The Verge
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| 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 … | 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, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS, TechCrunch, The Information, The Next Web, Neowin, StartupHub.ai, The American Bazaar, The Tech Portal, WeRSM, 9to5Mac, and ABC News
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| 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 … | 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 … | 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, iClarified, Macworld, The Cut, Architectural Digest, Digital Trends, ZDNET, CNET, 9to5Toys, TechRadar, The Verge, Mashable, TechCrunch, Android Central, Fox Business, Tom's Guide, 9to5Google, Retail Dive, and IGN. LinkedIn: Will Haire
| 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.| 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 … | 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, Scientific American, Ars Technica, Implicator.ai, Gizmodo, Memeburn, Leiden University, and The Next Web
Bluesky: @divbyzero and @jeffgreene
| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including about nutrition, weightlifting, and anxiety — The changes, after Meta's legal losses in two child safety cases, are aimed at limiting harmful content shown to teenagers on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.
More: Meta Newsroom, The Hill, Digital Trends, Quartz, Design It For Us, The Next Web, Help Net Security, WeRSM, Gizmodo, Channel NewsAsia, and Mashable
LinkedIn: Lennon Torres and Nicki Petrossi
| 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.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Perplexity unveils a Computer feature that splits tasks across local models and cloud-based models, to keep private data on-device and maximize token efficiency — Perplexity has announced a major new feature coming soon to Perplexity Computer: the ability to split tasks between local and cloud models.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing a Series feature, letting select creators make episodic Reels that are placed in a dedicated hub on their profile, using both old and new Reels — Meta is testing a new “Series” feature for Reels that's designed to make it easier to keep up with serialized content on Instagram and Facebook, the company told TechCrunch.Sponsor Posts
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