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Ben Thompson: An Interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella About Finding Core Competencies (Jun. 4, 2026)
Satya Nadella discusses Microsoft’s push to be a trusted AI platform, building its own MAI models, preserving model lineage, and using OpenAI IP, while enabling customers to hill-climb with multi-tenant learning systems. -
WSJ: Mark Zuckerberg Wants Meta’s New AI Agents to Run Your Whole Business (Jun. 3, 2026)
Meta launched an AI agent for businesses on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger to answer questions, book appointments, and close sales. It will shift from free to paid tiers. -
WSJ: Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers (Jun. 3, 2026)
Meta repeatedly delayed the Muse Spark API, leaving developers without access to its closed AI model, with no launch date. These pauses cloud monetization of massive AI spending, as Meta tests partners, trials subscriptions, and pursues cloud services. -
The Atlantic: No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious (Jun. 3, 2026)
Anthropic treats Claude as possibly conscious, but fluency, humanlikeness, and persuasive answers do not prove consciousness, and LLMs are producing fictional characters, not moral agents. -
WSJ: Alphabet’s $80 Billion AI Fundraising Push Shows the Value of Being a Public Company (Jun. 2, 2026)
Alphabet’s $80 billion stock sale shows Big Tech’s edge raising cash for AI, matching SpaceX’s expected IPO haul. -
WSJ: China’s Chip Ambitions Run Into a Global Tech Wall (Jun. 2, 2026)
Huawei’s engineering is credible, but the technique isn’t new — TSMC, Intel, Samsung and AMD are also pursuing stacking, typically on chips made with EUV lithography. “U.S.-led export controls have barred their sale to China since 2019.” -
TNW: GoPro warned it may not survive (Jun. 1, 2026)
GoPro warned it may not be a going concern after memory prices rose 80–115%, causing a 26% revenue drop and loan covenant breaches. -
NY Times: The Small-Business Owners Managing Whole Armies of A.I. Employees (Jun. 4, 2026)
Small-businesses use OpenClaw “lobster” A.I. agents to automate emails, finances, legal work, and customer tasks, boosting productivity. -
WSJ: How AI Could Improve Economic Policymaking (Jun. 2, 2026)
AI will make economic policymaking, especially for central banks, more accurate by supplying real-time data, richer models, and faster analysis. -
WSJ: Top AI CEOs Call for Law Protecting Against Biological Weapons (Jun. 3, 2026)
Top AI CEOs, including Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis, urged Congress to require suppliers to screen DNA and RNA orders. They warn AI could ease making pathogens, critics say screening may be subjective, costly for startups. -
NY Times: Scientists Find Way to Supercharge Dangerous Computer ‘Worms’ With A.I. (Jun. 2, 2026)
Researchers at the University of Toronto built a prototype A.I.-driven worm that tailors exploits, spreads across a test network, and targets known software flaws. -
Stanford Law School: AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study – SLS News and Announcements (Jun. 1, 2026)
In a blind study, law professors preferred AI-generated contract-law answers over peers’ responses, with AI winning 75% of 3,000 comparisons. They flagged AI as misleading or harmful far less often. -
NY Times: Trump Is Finally Facing Reality on A.I. (Jun. 4, 2026)
The government shifted from hands-off to limited AI review. It set a 30-day review, a cybersecurity clearinghouse, and help for small groups. Models can find unknown software flaws usable by defenders or attackers, so Congress should require durable safety rules. -
Transformer: Trump’s AI executive order was inevitable (Jun. 3, 2026)
Trump signed an executive order creating voluntary pre-deployment tests for frontier AI, targeting catastrophic cyber risks, granting the government up to 30 days exclusive access, and pressuring firms to comply. -
Bernie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies (Jun. 1, 2026)
AI will transform life, and it rests on humanity’s collective knowledge. A proposed American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund would take a one-time 50% stock levy to give the public ownership, board votes, and dividends for health care and education.