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Off the Wire Press Releases Chip to Rackscale AI Solutions Delivered to Customers with the Help of Strategic Industry Partners TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 2, 2026 — Today at Computex 2026, Intel unveiled new innovations that address customers’ chip-to-systems-level AI needs with solutio

Martin Scorsese has signed on as a partner and adviser to AI image-generation startup Black Forest Labs, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The caveat is that one of the world’s most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding. “For 70 years, I’ve been

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 mode

Off the Wire Press Releases RA’ANANA, Israel, June 2, 2026 — DriveNets, a leader in large-scale networking solutions, has announced it has completed a $410 million Series D financing round, reaching $1 billion total capital raised. With more than $1B in secured business and havin

In the first weeks of 2026, OpenClaw spread through the AI world like a sonic boom, introducing many of the industry’s most ambitious technologists to the joy and chaos of an unrestrained AI agent. The project’s momentum tailed off after OpenAI scooped up its founder, but the inf

Google is launching a new feature for its Phone app that aims to protect you from AI impersonation scams. Now, when you receive a call from a scammer that appears to be coming from the same number as one of your contacts, Phone by Google will flag the call as suspicious so you ca

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 organiz

As AI agents grow ever more capable, enterprises racing to put them to work across applications, workflows, and products face a new challenge: ensuring an agent does what it’s supposed to do when it’s deployed across different environments. Microsoft is trying to solve this probl

Google announced on Tuesday that Android is launching fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams. The feature is rolling out globally in Phone by Google to Android 12+ devices this month, starting with Pixel devices. As people increasingly refuse to an

Before Zack Eakin sold investors on his new startup, he practiced on Palmer Luckey. When Eakin left Luckey’s defense startup, Anduril, in 2024 to start a new composites company called Layup Parts, Luckey — along with Anduril co-founders Brian Schimpf and Matt Grimm — let him work

JetCool has launched its SmartPlate System for Dell PowerEdge R770 and R7725 servers, expanding its direct-to-chip liquid cooling portfolio to align with next-generation server platforms based on 5th Gen AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon 6 processors. The company originally announced the D

Amazon was sued on Monday over alleged privacy violations from its Ring doorbell cameras. The class action lawsuit, filed in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt, claims that Ring’s Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent. Ring announced the Fami

Artificial Intelligence The art and science of hyperparameter optimization on Amazon Nova Forge Large language models (LLMs) deliver strong results on general tasks, but they often struggle with specialized work that requires understanding proprietary data, internal processes, or

Off the Wire Press Releases FOSTER CITY, Calif., June 2, 2026 – ZutaCore, a leader in waterless, direct-to-chip, two-phase liquid cooling, today announced its $100 million Series C funding round. The round includes investment from Mitsubishi Electric, Carrier Ventures, and Samsun

Intel’s next-gen LGA1954 socket will support Nova Lake, Razor Lake, and beyond — finally an Intel socket that outlives its CPUs If you ask a computer enthusiast, particularly an Intel one, what they hate most, it’s having to upgrade to a new motherboard to take advantage of the b

Artificial Intelligence Object detection with Amazon Nova 2 Lite Traditional computer vision solutions can require significant upfront investment. Setting up data pipelines, model training infrastructure, compute resources, and a dedicated data science team is often prohibitive f

Microsoft just announced “Project Solara,” a new OS designed for gadgets that run AI agents, at Build 2026. The company is calling it “a new platform built from the ground up to power agent-driven experiences.” It’s built on Android, not Windows. Microsoft’s Project Solara is an

The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it's correcting a flawed enforcement action against Gemini Space Station, the crypto exchange run by the Winklevoss brothers, alleging it was caught up in a broader campaign against the crypto industry under the Biden

Focused Energy recently raised an oversubscribed $240 million Series A round, one of the largest early-stage rounds for a fusion power startup. The new round, announced last week, brings the company’s total private capital raised to $300 million, the company told TechCrunch. The

Connecting AI agents with unstructured data using Google Cloud Storage MCP Servers Himanshu Kohli Product Manager, Google Cloud Manjul Sahay Product Manager, Google Cloud Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is a foundational component of the modern agentic tech stack and the preferred hom

Microsoft debuts Surface RTX Spark Dev Box — Nvidia-powered mini-PC helps devs get ready for an agentic Windows It will have Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot preinstalled. ,Following the announcement of Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra ahead of Computex, the company is annou

MSI unveils latest set of WiFi 7 gaming routers touting ultra-fast speeds — flagship RadiX BE19000 model comes with a built-in SSD slot for 'NAS Lite' experience and wireless speeds up to 19 Gbps Promising fast speeds and alien-like exteriors MSI have unveiled a new set of flagsh

Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra at the weekend, and it’s now revealing a miniature Surface PC aimed at developers. The new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is powered by Nvidia’s new Arm-based RTX Spark chips, just like the Surface Laptop Ultra, and is optimized

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to give the government a chance to review powerful AI models before they are released. The order asks certain AI companies to voluntarily submit their new models to the government for testing or evaluation 30 da

Computex 2026 Day One Wrap-Up: Arm makes a bold play for Windows PCs, PCIe 6.0 SSDs are coming, Asus embraces black and gold for ROG 20th Computex 2026 is off and running Computex 2026 is moving full steam ahead, like an AI train running down a track made of gold-plated DDR5 DIMM

FugakuNEXT, Scality, VAST Data and WEKA Scality, VAST Data and WEKA IO are hot data tier candidates for FugakuNEXT, Japan’s next-generation flagship supercomputer. RIKEN, the Japanese National Research and Development Agency which operates the existing Fugaku supercomputer, is wo

Anthropic on Tuesday said an additional 150 partners in more than 15 countries will gain access to its powerful Mythos artificial intelligence model, which has proven adept at finding software vulnerabilities. The startup said the expansion of Project Glasswing includes industrie

OpenAI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex, meant to expand the agentic tool’s uses in the workplace. Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is being use

Accelerating data lakes: Optimizing Apache Iceberg and Spark with gcs-analytics-core Ajay Yadav Software Engineer Nivedita Aggarwal Engineering Manager Many data engineers spend significant time managing compatibility and getting best performance across multiple analytics engines

Announcing Spanner Graph algorithms: Google-grade intelligence for connected data Bei Li Sr. Staff Software Engineer Vahab Mirrokni VP, Google Fellow, Graph Mining, Google Research At Google Cloud Next, we announced the preview of graph algorithms with Spanner Graph, bringing Goo

AI agents are a powerful tool for synthesizing data to accelerate research, summarize information, and help teams make decisions faster. But combining internal data with public sources poses security challenges. This post shares an open source example using Hermes Agent with NVID

Microsoft Build 2026 kicked off with a keynote presentation that introduced some developer-focused Windows updates, an OpenClaw-based AI assistant called Scout, the new Majorana 2 quantum computing chip, and a Surface mini PC designed for AI developers. Microsoft also rolled out