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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Microsoft releases Web IQ, a search service for AI agents that is powered by Bing, currently used by Copilot, ChatGPT, and other platforms — Table of Contents — Mi

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 (MS

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Microsoft unveils Microsoft Execution Containers for Windows, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI, Nvidia, Manus, and Nous Research as partners — For the past t

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:

OpenAI: OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users — OpenAI today released a new report

OpenAI: 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 — AI is going to be one of the mo

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 e

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted: Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital — UK company has deployed q

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 Network

Bloomberg: Procurement records show at least seven Chinese universities that support the country's military and defense industry are seeking access to Nvidia's H200 chips — At least seven Chinese univ

Bloomberg: Russia's Federal Security Service claims it uncovered a large-scale spyware operation by “foreign intelligence operatives” on senior officials' mobile phones — Russia's Federal Security Ser

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 — Ope

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: SK Hynix Chair Chey Tae-won says the company plans to double its memory chip capacity over the next five years, responding to a shortage that could last to 2030 — SK Hynix Inc. p

Gowri Gurumurthy / Bloomberg: Source: a CoreWeave-tied data center raised 900M via five-year junk bonds, priced at par to yield 7.5%, as the sector increasingly turns to high-yield bonds — A data cent

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 try

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 rai

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

Wired: Sources: after Trump nixed an AI EO on May 21, US officials are navigating internal strife and chaotic talks; early model access was the most contentious issue — Donald Trump killed an executiv

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research — Goog

Bloomberg: Sources: the EU's €20B investment plan for five AI data centers is floundering, with delays and funding issues alienating some potential partners — SoftBank Announces €75 Bln AI Data Center

The Economist: The IPOs of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI could add up to 4T to US stock market value within months, fueling concerns they could trigger more capital-raising — They promise to be the bi

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

Anna Tong / Forbes: Thrive Holdings, a spinoff of Thrive Capital, commits $1B to acquire local accounting firms through its subsidiary, Current, and use AI to automate them — In Thrive Holdings' live-

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber says it has limited all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool “to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption” — Uber Technologies Inc. has set

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 a

Reuters: Zhipu AI says it plans to apply for a listing in Shanghai; Zhipu's Hong Kong-listed shares are up over 10x since its January IPO, giving it an $83B market cap — Knowledge Atlas Technology JSC

New York Times: A look at the Seckinger school cluster in Georgia, including the US' “first AI-themed educational institution”, as parents say AI integration is often sparse — It was 9 a.m. on a Thurs

Bloomberg: Alphabet is raising 80B in equity offerings, including a 10B investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway, to help raise money for its AI spending plans — Google parent Alphabet Inc. is raising

Anthropic: Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC — Today, Anthropic, PBC confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commiss

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in preparing to go public this year — The artificial intelligence company has seen explosi

Bernie Sanders / New York Times: Bernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates “must benefit humanity”, calling for a sovereign wealth fund that would hold ownership stakes in the top AI companies — Artif

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Binance launches trading for 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for non-US users, with zero commissions and fractional share purchases, as part of its “super app” push — Binance, t

Kalley Huang / New York Times: Box says it created 13 new AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow its staff to 3,000 by early 2027, up from 2,900 — Box, a Silic

Juro Osawa / The Information: Chinese AI developer MiniMax launches M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Opus 4.7, costing 0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with 5 for Opus 4.7 — Chinese AI dev

Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries — Coinbase annou

NBC News: Florida AG James Uthmeier sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, seeking to hold Altman personally liable for deceptive trade practices, negligence, and public nuisance — Florida's seeks to hold Sam Al

Financial Times: French private equity firm Ardian partners with data center group Verne to build an up to €5B AI “gigafactory” outside Paris, targeting 500MW in total capacity — Data centre and resea

Michelle Ma / Bloomberg: Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a 250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom — Gigascale Cap

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: GitHub Copilot's new pricing model went into effect today, and many noted sticker shock with some saying a few hours of AI usage ate big chunks of monthly caps — In April,

Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US, in Tokyo's Omotesando district “this summer”, marking Google's 11th physical store — After being excl

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Hackers say they used Meta's AI support chatbot to change emails tied to Instagram accounts amid a wave of high-profile account takeovers; Meta fixed the issue — The exploit

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: HPE reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to 10.7B, vs. 9.74B est., Server revenue up 33%, forecasts revenue for FY26 and FY27 above est.; HPE jumps 30%+ after hours — Hewlett Packard

Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg: IBM shares jump 9%+ after a six-month old video of Trump praising CEO Arvind Krishna was recirculated on X; IBM had surged ~40% in a little over two weeks — A nearly six-m

Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: Internal documents: Chinese company Geedge is working to build AI tools to predict those who could pose a political risk, but US chip controls hampered its work — Ne

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli networking company DriveNets raised a 410M Series D led by Bessemer and Atreides at an 8.5B valuation, taking its total funding to ~1B — The Israeli networking company say

Ian King / Bloomberg: Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users for Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster for AI workloads than x86 chips — Nvidia Corp. sai