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Microsoft launches MXC, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI and Nvidia already on board
For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code, navigate software interfaces, manage files, and orchestrate multi-step workflows with increasing autonomy. What the industry has not done, at least not with any consistency, is answer the question that keeps chief information security officers awake at night: what happens when an agent goes wrong? On Tuesday at its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft offered what may become the definitive answer. The company introduced Microsoft Execution Containers, or MXC — a policy-driven execution layer, built into the Windows operating system itself, that lets developers and IT administrators declare exactly what an AI agent can and cannot access, with those boundaries enforced at runtime by the OS kernel. The announcement, buried within a sweeping set of developer-focused updates, is arguably the most consequential platform move Microsoft made at Build this year, and it
Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant
OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work
General AI
Google announces deepfake call detection for Android, new AirDrop device support
Google's June Android feature drop includes more scam detection, more AirDrop, and yes, more AI.
Microsoft’s first advanced reasoning AI is here
Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new "flagship" model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year - before then, it had relied on OpenAI's models. The two companies recently renegotiated their deal to loosen ties. According to Microsoft, MAI-Thinking-1 is a "medium-sized model" that "matches leading models" on "key" software engineering benchmarks. Microsoft says the company "trained it from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models." As for other models announced today, t … Read the full story at The Verge.
Microsoft Scout is a new AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw
Much like Google, Microsoft is launching its own version of OpenClaw. Microsoft Scout is an always-on assistant that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, allowing businesses to assign a virtual assistant to employees to help with organizing calendars, expense reporting, email drafts, and much more. Unlike Copilot that lives inside Microsoft 365 apps, Microsoft Scout can see and do a lot more. "This is a personal assistant, it's the first real personal assistant we've offered customers," explains Omar Shahine, corporate vice president of Microsoft Scout, in an interview with The Verge. "I think it's … Read the full story at The Verge.
Alphabet Launches $80 Billion Equity Raise To Fund AI Expansion
Google parent combines share sales, preferred stock, and Berkshire investment to expand AI infrastructure.
Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI
Engineering physical systems still depends on human talent, according to Impulse Space president Eric Romo.
HP’s New AI PCs With Nvidia Put Future Growth And Risks In Focus
HP (NYSE:HPQ) has launched a new portfolio of AI-focused PCs and developer workstations in partnership with Nvidia. The range targets creators, gamers, and enterprise users that are working with AI-accelerated workloads. New devices are built around Nvidia RTX Spark and AMD Ryzen AI, with dedicated options for developers and corporate IT teams. For HPQ, this move speaks directly to how personal computing is changing as AI workloads become part of everyday use, from content creation to code...
Analyst Spots Major AI Winners as Nvidia, Intel, and Marvell Shine at Computex
Computex Lights Up AI Chip Stocks as Nvidia and Rivals Push New Plans
Berkshire to invest $10 billion in Alphabet in major AI bet
Berkshire Hathaway famously missed past tech waves, to Warren Buffett’s regret. Greg Abel is determined not to miss this one.
Mounting evidence suggests remote work is behind the Gen Z hiring nightmare. Even the New York Fed thinks so
Graduates are blaming AI for their employment woes, but the real culprit may be the pandemic’s most sought-after workplace perk
At COMPUTEX 2026, YPlasma Unveils the First Fanless Solid-State Cooling Solution for NVIDIA Jetson, Built for 24/7 Edge AI Workloads
YPlasma, the only company commercializing solid-state cooling based on dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma actuators, today announced at COMPUTEX 2026 in Taipei the successful integration and testing of a DBD plasma cooling module on the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano platform. The Jetson cooling solution removes the rotary fan entirely and replaces it with a 200 micrometer flexible actuator film, 40 to 60 times thinner than the 8 to 12 mm micro-fans it replaces, that generates ionic wind to cool
STMicro Raises Data Center Target on AI Demand
AI infrastructure demand lifts STMicro's data center outlook.
Travelers deploys AI-powered claims countrywide with OpenAI
Travelers built an AI-powered Claim Assistant with OpenAI to guide customers through filing claims, provide 24/7 support, and scale operations during peak demand.
Nine dead and over 60 wounded as Russia launches air attacks across Ukraine
Moscow warned last week that it intended to launch "systematic strikes" on targets in Kyiv and urged foreign nationals to leave.
Anthropic expands Mythos to 150 additional organizations in more than 15 countries
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Jeff Bezos’ 25-year-old stress cure is to ‘make the first phone call, or send the first email’— and a recruiter says it lands even harder in 2026
With economic uncertainty, AI anxiety, and a brutal job market weighing on workers, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a counterintuitive theory on stress: and the answer is not your workload, it's your inaction.
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Microsoft Build 2026: All the news about Windows, AI, RTX Spark and more
Microsoft’s annual developer conference is kicking off on June 2nd in San Francisco with the keynote presentation streaming live at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT, and we will be following along here with everything as it’s announced. The Verge’s Tom Warren reports that we can expect to hear about new AI models and agentic OpenClaw-like tools, plus a Copilot “super app” to go along with some of the major changes to Windows 11 that have already started appearing. Microsoft just announced the new Surface Laptop Ultra, powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark, so there could be more Windows on ARM news in store. Follow along here for the latest news and updates. How to watch Microsoft’s Build 2026 conference Microsoft to unveil new AI models and Windows improvements at Build Microsoft’s big developer conference returns to San Francisco in June
OpenAI's Codex update lets agents build interactive enterprise workspaces via Sites and role-specific plugins
Agentic AI is moving rapidly from the developer terminal to the corporate world. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a major update of its agentic AI platform Codex, introducing domain-specific workflows, a rapid, semi-private web hosting feature within it for enterprises called "Sites," and an in-place editing tool named "Annotations". The release marks a deliberate strategy to transform Codex from a specialized programming assistant into an everyday operating environment for business professionals. Non-developers—including financial analysts, marketers, operators, and researchers—now constitute approximately 20% of the platform’s 5 million weekly users and are adopting the technology three times faster than traditional engineers, according to research shared by OpenAI with VentureBeat and other outlets. OpenAI is capitalizing on this shift to position Codex as the premier application for white-collar task automation. The timing of the announcement is highly strategic, arriving precisely a
New FindObject Physical AI skill added to AgenticROS
Your ROS robot can now look for physical items in your space using Nvidia's NemoClaw or OpenClaw, Claude, or Google Gemini. Try it: https://github.com/agenticros/agenticros-skill-find submitted by /u/Chemical-Hunter-5479 [link] [comments]
We have built the first of it's kind interactive blog for matching open-source LLMs to GPUs
Hey everyone, If you are deploying open-source models, you know the biggest headache is figuring out exact hardware requirements. You usually end up digging through Reddit threads to find out if a specific model fits on a single A10G, if you can squeeze it onto consumer cards, or if you have to jump up to a massive bare metal A100 cluster. Most of the "guides" out there are just static, out-of-date tables or dense walls of text. So, we published "Which GPU Runs Which LLM" on the AgentSwarms blog, but we engineered it completely differently. What makes this different: It is 100% interactive and gamified. Instead of reading a textbook on VRAM math, you actively engage with the hardware logic right on the page. You select the model size (8B, 32B, 70B, etc.). You tweak the quantization (FP16, 8-bit, 4-bit, GGUF vs AWQ). The interactive deck instantly calculates the VRAM constraints and visually maps out the exact GPU tiers you need to deploy. It gamifies the infrastructure plan
Zip’s new AI agents want to stop your finance team from uploading contracts into personal ChatGPT accounts
Zip, the AI procurement platform valued at $2.2 billion, announced two products on Monday that mark a turning point in its evolution from procurement software to autonomous AI platform: a suite of five AI "Superagents" that can review contracts, code invoices, and negotiate with vendors inside Zip's governance framework, and a procurement-native implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that pipes Zip's data directly into AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT — without sacrificing audit trails or compliance controls. The announcements, unveiled at Zip's AI Summit in New York with speakers from Anthropic, OpenAI, Datadog, and Humana, arrive at a moment when the procurement technology sector has become one of the fiercest battlegrounds in enterprise AI. SAP unveiled its "Autonomous Enterprise" vision at Sapphire 2026 just weeks ago, introducing more than 50 domain-specific Joule Assistants across finance, supply chain, and procurement. Coupa launched its own Compose platform and
Ignoring benchmarks, how do the newest local models (gemma 4 31B, 26BA4B, Qwen 3.6) “feel” to you? What do you think they compare to?
I use local ai mainly for creative writing, and benchmarks are a bit iffy on that I feel like. I’d like to compare Gemma mainly to Gemini as I like their writing the best, I do know that qwen 3.6 is amazing but mostly for coding and agentic work. I’d like to ask everyone how the new(er?) models feel to you personally rather than looking at benchmarks which they are likely optimised for. For me, I feel like Gemma 4 31B (even q4) still falls short of 2.5 pro, I’m most familiar with 2.5 pro since I used so much of it for free on ai studio when it was a preview. The style and prose are there but long context it still misremembers minor details. I think it’s actually better than gpt 4.5, but tha could be personal preference since, again, I do mostly only creative writing submitted by /u/opoot_ [link] [comments]
NVIDIA releases new and updated tools for physical AI developers
NVIDIA has released open-source physical AI agent skills and tools, as well as an Isaac GR00T humanoid reference robot. The post NVIDIA releases new and updated tools for physical AI developers appeared first on The Robot Report.
Robotics
FORT Robotics acquires Mapless AI to expand teleop capabilities
While FORT has traditionally worked with technology in industrial environments, Mapless AI brings experience in more unstructured settings. The post FORT Robotics acquires Mapless AI to expand teleop capabilities appeared first on The Robot Report.
Vantis BVLOS System Adds New Partner, FAA Waiver Across 5,000 Square Miles
A new FAA aircraft-agnostic waiver lets Frontier Precision fly any NDAA-compliant drone under 55 pounds across more than 5,000 square miles of Vantis-managed airspace. Vantis, North Dakota’s beyond-visual-line-of-sight system, has onboarded Frontier Precision as its second champion operator. Frontier Precision secured a new FAA waiver that expands BVLOS operations through the four established Vantis service volumes. The […] The post Vantis BVLOS System Adds New Partner, FAA Waiver Across 5,000 Square Miles appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Software is ‘the biggest bottleneck to robotics innovation’, says BlackBerry QNX report
QNX, a division of BlackBerry, has released a new research study, the Inside the Robot: Architecture Benchmark Report, examining how robotics development is changing as systems become more software‑driven, AI‑enabled, and increasingly deployed alongside humans at work and in daily life. Based on a survey of 1,000 developers from around the world, the research reveals […]
NVIDIA releases Cosmos 3 Omnimodal world modelson HF
https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image Nano: 16B Super: 64B Cosmos3 is a collection of Omnimodal world models capable of generating dynamic, high-quality video, image, audio, and action commands from combinations of text, image, video, and action trajectory inputs. It serves as a foundational building block for a broad range of Physical AI applications and research spanning world understanding, world generation, simulation, and embodied policy learning. Haven't seen much here yet. Some twitter discussion: https://x.com/victormustar/status/2061354267546427595 submitted by /u/RobotRobotWhatDoUSee [link] [comments]
Business & Industry
ZeroDrift raises $10 million to protect AI models from themselves
A new AI compliance service sits between AI models and end users to flag and replace any messages that might present a compliance problem.