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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 (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

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" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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 (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Microsoft announces the Agent Control Specification, an open-source standard that gives developers a granular, consistent way to control what AI agents can do (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

GitHub unveils a GitHub Copilot desktop app in technical preview, which introduces a new feature called canvases for bidirectional work between users and agents (Mario Rodriguez/The GitHub Blog)

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 (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

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 (Reece Rogers/Wired)

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 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Thrive Holdings, a spinoff of Thrive Capital, commits $1B to acquire local accounting firms through its subsidiary, Current, and use AI to automate them (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Microsoft announces new on-device AI updates for Edge: a dev preview of a new SLM called Aion-1.0-Instruct, Language Detector and Translator APIs, and more (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott)

Microsoft announces developer tools for Windows: a set of Linux-like command line utilities called Coreutils, WSL containers, an Intelligent Terminal, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices, with concept hardware and pilots planned at Best Buy, Target, and others (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Uber says it has limited all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool "to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption" (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Microsoft releases Web IQ, a search service for AI agents that is powered by Bing, currently used by Copilot, ChatGPT, and other platforms (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

Sources: the EU's €20B investment plan for five AI data centers is floundering, with delays and funding issues alienating some potential partners (Bloomberg)

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 (Politico)

Israeli data security startup Cyera raised $300M at a $12B valuation, after raising $400M at a $9B valuation in January (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Microsoft unveils Microsoft Execution Containers for Windows, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI, Nvidia, Manus, and Nous Research as partners (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

A livestream of Microsoft Build 2026 (YouTube)

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 (Engadget)

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 (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

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 (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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 (New York Times)

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 (Sophia Cai/Politico)

Internal post: Guy Rosen, Meta's chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta's election integrity work, is departing in the coming months (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

CFTC chair Michael Selig says Gemini was the victim of Biden-era political targeting, a week after the CFTC motioned to vacate a 2025 order against the exchange (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)

X launches a React with Video feature on iOS that targets creators and is being pitched as a multimedia alternative to the Repost and Quote Post functions (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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 (Tim Culpan/Culpium)

Sources: the UK has begun using SpaceX's militarized satellite network Starshield, making it among the first countries outside the US to adopt the tech (Cassell Bryan-Low/Reuters)

Sixteen mathematicians publish the Leiden Declaration on AI and Mathematics to warn of potential threats to the field, such as around accuracy and reliability (Siobhan Roberts/New York 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 (Financial Times)

Analysis: Palo Alto Networks' shareholders have voted to reject pay packages for its top executives seven times since 2015, more than any other S&P 500 company (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg)

Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including about nutrition, weightlifting, and anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Didi reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$8.7B and a ~$177M net loss, several times larger than its Q4 loss, as it expands globally in markets like Latin America (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Russia's Federal Security Service claims it uncovered a large-scale spyware operation by "foreign intelligence operatives" on senior officials' mobile phones (Bloomberg)

Sources: after Trump nixed an AI EO on May 21, US officials navigated internal strife and chaotic talks; early AI model access was the most contentious issue (Wired)

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 (Arriana McLymore/Reuters)

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)

Analysis: 22 of 24 US executive agencies saw a YoY increase in their average X account engagement during the first year of Trump's second term; @DOGE dominated (Pew Research Center)

SK Hynix Chair Chey Tae-won says the company plans to double its memory chip capacity over five years, responding to a global shortage that could last till 2030 (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

China adds data and algorithms to its trade secret rules, as part of Beijing's efforts to prevent tech leaks amid intensifying strategic competition with the US (Nectar Gan/Bloomberg)

Computex 2026: ARM CEO Rene Haas says Oracle and ByteDance are among the customers of Arm's new AGI CPUs for data centers (Max Cherney/Reuters)

Zhipu AI says it plans to apply for a listing in Shanghai; Zhipu's Hong Kong-listed shares are up 10x+ since its January IPO, giving it an ~$83B market cap (Reuters)

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 (Bloomberg)

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 (The Economist)

AI will significantly disrupt IT consultancies as AI labs build their own advisory arms and execs expect more outcome-based pricing over hourly billing models (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)

An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI's massive Stargate data center project in Saline, Michigan, coding models being the biggest driver of AI demand, and more (CNBC)

OpenAI says it has not donated to any super PACs and does not have an employee-funded PAC, and that Greg Brockman's support for Leading the Future is "personal" (OpenAI)