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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 …
More: Microsoft AI, Microsoft AI, Moneycontrol, Mashable, Digit, Latent.Space, Implicator.ai, Tech Times, The Indian Express, WinBuzzer, COINOTAG, Gizmodo, Pulse 2.0, GeekWire, and Nikkei Asia
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| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
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| Imran Rahman-Jones / BBC: |
The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google AI search results, giving the company nine months to implement the changes — Online publishers can choose not to appear in the AI Overviews of Google search results n the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced.| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Google says it is testing a new toggle inside its Search Console with some UK domain owners, letting them decide whether their sites appear in AI search results — The company says opting out won't impact placement in regular searches. — More than three years after it began rolling … | 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.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
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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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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Source: SpaceX aims to raise $75B in its IPO, 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to below $67K on June 2 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.
More: Engadget, The Hans India, RTÉ, Reuters, and Neowin
| 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 … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases Qwen3.7-Plus, a multimodal proprietary model with a 1M-token context window, costing $2 per 1M tokens, 60% less than text-only Qwen3.7-Max — However, like its immediate predecessor Qwen3.7-Plus is available only under a “closed” commercial license via proprietary application …
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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 … | Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC: |
Marvell's shares closed up 32.52% on Tuesday after Jensen Huang hailed the US data center chipmaker as the “next trillion-dollar company” at Computex 2026 — Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang hailed Marvell Technology as the next trillion-dollar firm, sending its shares up 32% on Tuesday.| 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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Forums: r/technology, r/Scams, and r/Android
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Source: Google asked Google Play app developers to join a “confidential content offer pilot”, offering to pay for codebase access to use it to train AI tools — Google is trying to buy code from some Android developers as part of a “confidential” program.
More: Android Authority and Neowin
Bluesky: @alisonborealis, @jasonkoebler, @josephcox, @joolia, and @mattzollerseitz. Forums: r/Android
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $3B, including $388M from CyberArk and Chronosphere, above $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 that appears as a Microsoft Teams contact to automate tasks such as scheduling — Microsoft's OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks.
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LinkedIn: Adam Sheppard, Jeff Teper, Brenna Robinson, and Omar Shahine
Bluesky: @josephcox, @emanuelmaiberg, and @jasonkoebler. Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a “worm” powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer — Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program …
More: Engadget, arXiv.org, and CleverHans Lab
| 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 …
More: Microsoft Devices Blog, Gizmodo, Guru3D, PCMag, TechRadar, Pureinfotech, Notebookcheck, SiliconANGLE, The Information, Firstpost, The Verge, Tom's Hardware, Engadget, and VideoCardz.com
X: @mweinbach, @pavandavuluri, @surface, @tomwarren, @film_girl, @shishirshelke1, @zacbowden, @yiningkarlli, @windowsdev, @microsoft, @msdev, @satyanadella, @joannastern, @geforce_jacobf, and @windowscentral. LinkedIn: Andrew E. Freedman. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/Surface
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Q&A with labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards on why much of the AI jobs panic is overblown, why the US should start planning for AI job loss outcomes, and more — Labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards isn't worried AI will create a new class of permanently idle Americans … | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Layup Parts, which aims to digitize the composite manufacturing supply chain for aerospace, defense, and motorsports, raised a $42M Series A led by Marlinspike — Before Zack Eakin sold investors on his new startup, he practiced on Palmer Luckey. — When he left Luckey's defense startup … | Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT becomes the fastest app by far to hit 1B global MAUs; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date and 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 … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
How India's ambitions to build and export a sovereign AI template are colliding with structural constraints, including a dependence on foreign AI infrastructure — India hopes to build an AI model for the Global South, but a late start and dependence on foreign AI infrastructure are testing that vision.
X: @business and @saritharai
| Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: |
GitLab is laying off 350 staff, or 14% of its workforce, as it pivots to become an AI-focused enterprise software development platform, and exits 22 countries — The company will also exit 22 countries, reducing its geographic footprint by about 37% — GitLab is cutting 350 full-time employees … | Shristi Achar / The Economic Times: |
UnearthInsight: Indian IT companies have spent $7.1B on acquisitions since the start of 2025 to gain clients, as AI-led pricing pressure weakens organic growth — Indian IT firms are buying smaller companies to boost growth. Acquisitions are happening due to AI's impact on pricing and organic growth.
X: @ettech, @ettech, @pareekhjain, and @ettech
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