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Microsoft hosts its annual software developer conference in Seattle on Monday, drawing thousands of coders looking to turn the past years of investments into artificial intelligence into profitable products and services for consumers and businesses. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant, which is an investor and deep strategic partner with ChatGPT creator OpenAI, and has already […]

Samantha Subin / CNBC: CoreWeave announces a $2B debt offering, representing a $500M increase from its initial announcement, and says it was five times oversubscribed; CRWV jumps 19%  —  CoreWeave shares popped 19% after announcing a $2 billion debt offering.  —  The renter of artificial intelligence data centers powered … Source link

Microsoft released an agentic web interface on Monday that can perform complex tasks on the web. Announced at the company’s Build 2025 conference, the new tool is named Magentic-UI, and the company is pitching it as a “human-centred web agent.” The Redmond-based tech giant claims that, unlike other computer use agents, this one collaborates with

Alfred Ng / Politico: Sen. Wyden says AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile failed to create systems for notifying about surveillance on Senate-issued devices, despite a requirement to do so  —  Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) revealed in a new letter to Senate colleagues Wednesday that AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile failed … Source link

Microsoft introduced a new open project dubbed NLWeb at its Build 2025 conference on Monday. Short for Natural Language Web, the NLWeb project aims to build an interface to websites that support artificial intelligence (AI) models. With AI capabilities, these websites will then support natural language queries by users and provide answers for those queries.

Bloomberg: OpenAI is buying io, Jony Ive’s secretive AI startup, for ~$6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI  —  OpenAI will acquire the AI device startup co-founded by Apple Inc. veteran Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal … Source link

MediaTek showcased several artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for a wide range of devices and platforms at Computex 2025 on Tuesday. The Taiwan-based chipmaker unveiled its first hybrid computing solution to offer AI capabilities on the edge, a new chipset to bring AI to in-car infotainment systems, as well as an Internet-of-things (IoT) platform to power

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: In April ChatGPT started to, by default, reference all past chats for more personalized responses, but this means users lose control of their prompts’ context  —  Last month ChatGPT got a major upgrade.  As far as I can tell the closest to an official announcement was this tweet from

Google I/O 2025 kicked off at 10:30pm on Tuesday, and the company made notable announcements related to artificial intelligence (AI) features and new capabilities coming to Android XR, its new operating system for extended reality (XR) devices. While Google also showed off new Android 16 features and improvements coming to Wear OS 6 during a

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Mistral partners with All Hands AI to release Devstral, a model to help with coding, in “research preview” under Apache 2.0, and says it outperforms Gemma 3 27B  —  AI startup Mistral on Wednesday announced a new AI model focused on coding: Devstral. Source link