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Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, ending weeks of internal White House conflict over how aggressively to regulate the technology. The order, titled “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security,” was signed privately without the usual livestream or public ceremony, a […]

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Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a next-generation topological quantum chip whose qubits are 1,000 times more reliable than those in the first Majorana chip introduced last year. The improvement is so significant that Microsoft has cut its timeline for achieving a scalable quantum computer from 2033 to 2029, halving the original target. The company credits […]

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Microsoft just announced a new operating system for devices that don’t run apps, only AI agents

Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a new chip-to-cloud platform designed from the ground up for devices that run AI agents instead of traditional applications. The platform includes a lightweight operating system built on AOSP, enterprise-grade security and management through Intune and Entra ID, and what Microsoft calls “just-in-time UI,” the ability for agent […]

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OpenAI is turning Codex from a coding tool into an enterprise work platform, and non-developers are adopting it 3x faster than engineers

OpenAI announced a major expansion of Codex on Tuesday, transforming its AI coding agent into a broader enterprise work platform with three new capabilities: Sites, a feature that lets users create and share hosted interactive web applications; Annotations, an in-place editing tool; and six role-specific plugins that aggregate 62 popular business applications including Snowflake, Figma, […]

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A German startup raised $240 million to commercialise the only fusion experiment that has ever produced net energy

Focused Energy, a Germany-based fusion startup, has raised an oversubscribed $240 million Series A round to develop a commercial reactor based on the same approach that produced the world’s first controlled fusion reaction with net energy gain. The round, led by German utility RWE, brings the company’s total private capital to $300 million. Focused Energy […]

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SpaceX’s first employee just raised $500 million for the company that moves satellites once rockets put them in the wrong orbit

Impulse Space, the orbital transfer vehicle startup founded by Tom Mueller, has raised $500 million in a Series D round that values the company at $4.26 billion. The round was co-led by 137 Ventures and Banner VC, with participation from existing investors including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Linse Capital. The company has now raised […]

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Meta takes its 13+ teen content settings global across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger

Meta is taking its “13+” content settings for Teen Accounts global. The company said today that the setting, which it likens to a movie rating, will now apply by default to teenagers across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger worldwide, extending a system it first introduced last October in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada. According to […]

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SoftBank is reportedly in early talks to back an $800m Agile Robots round

SoftBank, it seems, is not done buying robots. The Japanese group is in early talks to back a new funding round of around $800m (€700m) for Agile Robots, the Munich startup that builds robot arms, warehouse machines, and humanoids, according to Bloomberg. SoftBank would contribute more than $300m of that total, people familiar with the […]

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Jensen Huang says pay workers ‘as much as possible’ days after Nvidia commits 50% of free cash to shareholders

Jensen Huang’s comments at Computex defend the Samsung bonus structure that delivers $400,000 to chip engineers, but land alongside an $80bn Nvidia buyback announced two weeks ago. Jensen Huang, the Nvidia chief executive, told reporters on the sidelines of Computex in Taipei on Tuesday that workers should be paid “as much as possible,” framing the […]

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Australia’s biggest bank says corporate AI is racking up bigger bills and producing ‘work slop’

CBA chief executive Matt Comyn used the phrase ‘work slop’ to describe the low-quality AI output now flowing through corporate workflows, as token-billed AI costs scale with task complexity. Matt Comyn, chief executive of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, used a speech on Monday to flag two AI-adoption problems large corporate buyers have been working […]

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