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Microsoft Builds Its Own Brain: MAI Thinking One and the In-House Models Loosening OpenAI's Grip - June 3, 2026

At Build 2026, Microsoft unveiled seven in-house MAI models led by MAI Thinking One, its first homegrown reasoning model trained from scratch with no OpenAI data. Chris and Laura unpack the benchmarks, the Mixture of Experts architecture, and what owning its own frontier model means for Microsoft's complicated marriage with OpenAI.

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DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, June 3, 2026

President Trump signs an executive order asking AI labs to give the government voluntary early access to their most powerful models and to build an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse. Microsoft unveils in-house MAI models at Build to lean less on OpenAI, while Computex turns into an all-out chip battle: Nvidia debuts the RTX Spark Windows PC superchip with MediaTek, Qualcomm launches its Dragonfly data center brand, AMD's new Ryzen AI Max Pro runs a 300-billion-parameter model locally, and Intel pairs Xeon 6+ on 18A with SambaNova rackscale AI. Anthropic expands Project Glasswing into critical-infrastructure cyber defense. And the money keeps flowing: DriveNets raises 410 million dollars for AI networking, Tripo AI nearly 200 million for 3D world models, Maxwell Power 750 million for AI energy, Fonoa 110 million for AI tax automation, and Sekai 20 million in early-stage capital.

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Robotaxis Reach Europe: Inside the Uber, Autobrains, and NVIDIA Agentic AI Program Coming to Munich - June 2, 2026

Uber, Israeli startup Autobrains, and NVIDIA have unveiled an agentic AI robotaxi program built on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion, set to launch in Munich pending regulatory approval. We dig into Autobrains' camera-first "Liquid AI" approach, the OEM-agnostic strategy, and what it means for the global robotaxi race.

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DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Anthropic confidentially files for a U.S. IPO as the AI funding race reaches Wall Street, while Microsoft opens Build 2026 with a family of homegrown models and SoftBank overtakes Toyota as Japan's most valuable company. We cover GitHub Copilot's contentious switch to token-based billing, China's sweeping new outbound technology rules after the Meta-Manus block, Motorola Solutions' $1.5 billion acquisition of counter-drone firm D-Fend, and Uber's Munich robotaxi program with Autobrains and NVIDIA. Plus: the U.S. moves to halt advanced AI chips reaching Chinese firms abroad, Wayve launches Wayve Labs for embodied AI, Dell unveils a $699 XPS 13, Malaysia begins enforcing its under-16 social media ban, and the EU publishes its Cloud Sovereignty Framework.

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Jensen's Two Chip Day: NVIDIA Unveils RTX Spark for AI Agent Laptops and the Vera CPU Now Shipping to Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI - June 1, 2026

At GTC Taipei 2026, Jensen Huang took the wraps off two new processors that target both ends of the agentic AI stack on the same morning: RTX Spark, a Grace Blackwell superchip for slim Windows laptops with 128GB unified memory and the ability to run 200B parameter models with a 1M token context entirely on device; and Vera, NVIDIA's first internally designed general purpose CPU, which already shipped Friday to Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI, with Oracle Cloud receiving units Monday. We break down what the silicon actually does, why agentic workloads broke the old CPU model, and what this means for the laptop you'll be using this fall.

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DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, June 1, 2026

Nvidia opens Computex Taipei with the Vera Rubin architecture entering full production, while SoftBank commits seventy-five billion euros to five gigawatts of A.I. data centers in France and the U.S. Commerce Department tightens chip export controls targeting Nvidia and AMD. Microsoft and Nvidia ready the first Arm-based Windows PCs ahead of Build 2026, where leaked MAI-Image, MAI-Voice, and MAI-Transcribe models are set to debut. GitHub Copilot moves to token-based billing and developers revolt, Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash with a redesigned AI Search box, The Glimpse Group pivots into pureplay Physical AI, CNN sues Perplexity, CANAL+ launches an OpenAI-powered app, Wikipedia editors threaten a strike over Wikimedia layoffs, and Amazon shuts down its Kirorank leaderboard after tokenmaxxing.

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Robot Refs Take the Court: How Adam Silver and Sony Hawkeye Are Automating the NBA's Out of Bounds and Goaltending Calls

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver just announced that the league will hand objective officiating calls to an automated AI system built on Sony's Hawkeye 3D optical tracking platform. We unpack how a missed out of bounds call in Spurs vs Thunder Game Five accelerated the rollout, what stays with human referees, and why the same Sony platform is quietly becoming the silent third referee for global professional sports.

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DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, May 31, 2026

Today's brief covers Anthropic's historic sixty five billion dollar Series H round at a nine hundred and sixty five billion dollar valuation, OpenAI's new Frontier Governance Framework aligning with California and EU AI rules, Google's twenty four seven Gemini Spark agent going live for US Ultra subscribers, Cognition's one billion dollar raise at a twenty five billion dollar pre money valuation, Groq's six hundred and fifty million dollar pivot to AI inference neocloud, ByteDance's potential seventy billion dollar AI capex push, Figure AI logging two hundred straight hours of humanoid robot warehouse work, Demis Hassabis warning AGI could arrive by twenty twenty nine, Thrive Holdings and OpenAI Codex hitting ninety seven percent accuracy on tax returns, California clearing thirty AI bills past the crossover deadline, Meta laying off eight thousand workers to fund its AI pivot, and Vertu launching a seven thousand dollar AI first foldable phone for chief executives.

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DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, May 30, 2026

Anthropic closes a sixty-five billion dollar Series H at a nine hundred sixty-five billion dollar valuation, leapfrogging OpenAI as the worlds most valuable AI startup. OpenAI launches Rosalind Biodefense and a Frontier Governance Framework to align with EU and California rules. Microsoft confirms no Windows 12 at Build 2026 and previews new in house AI coding models. Dell raises its annual AI server forecast to sixty billion dollars as the stock surges the most since its 2018 IPO. Snowflake jumps thirty six percent for its best day ever after raising guidance, signing a multi year AWS deal, and agreeing to acquire Natoma. NVIDIA and IREN partner to deploy up to five gigawatts of AI infrastructure. DuckDuckGo installs surge thirty percent as users reject Google AI Search. Apple plans to make on device AI the centerpiece of WWDC 2026. YouTube begins automatically labeling photorealistic AI generated videos. DeepSeek makes its V4 Pro seventy five percent price cut permanent. Salesforce stock slides on lackluster guidance even as software peers rally. And Pope Leo the fourteenth releases Magnifica Humanitas, the first papal encyclical focused on AI.

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