• June 3, 2026
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Huang’s RTX Spark Launch in Taipei Redraws the Map of the AI Hardware Business

TAIPEI — The keynote began with a countdown and a crowd that had queued since before dawn, and Jensen Huang did not open with a slide. He walked onto the…

  • June 3, 2026
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Uber’s Employees Spent the Year’s AI Budget in Four Months, and Finance Took Notice

SAN FRANCISCO — The spreadsheet landed on the chief financial officer’s desk with a number that did not look right. Uber’s internal data showed employees had used up the company’s…

  • June 3, 2026
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Amazon Faces Class Action Over Ring’s Facial Recognition Feature

RICHMOND, Va. — The plaintiffs are neighbors who never agreed to be in the system. Virginia residents filed a class action against Amazon this week over Ring’s Familiar Faces feature,…

  • June 3, 2026
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Anthropic Files Confidentially for IPO, Setting Up a Test of AI Valuations

SAN FRANCISCO — The paperwork has not been made public, and the company has said almost nothing, but the filing landed this week and it is the most anticipated document…

  • June 3, 2026
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EU Court Spares Facebook Marketplace From DMA Rules, in a Partial Win for Meta

BRUSSELS — For two years, Facebook Marketplace was the test case for whether Europe’s signature digital competition law could tame the largest platforms. The European Commission designated it a core…

  • June 3, 2026
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Meta Turns WhatsApp Into a Customer Service Machine, With AI Agents for Every Business

LONDON — The small business had a familiar problem: customers asked the same five questions all day, and a human could not be in three conversations at once. The shop…

  • June 3, 2026
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Britain Rules Website Owners Can Block Google From Training AI on Their Content

LONDON — For years, the default assumption inside the AI industry was that anything posted publicly on the internet was fair game for training models. A British regulatory ruling this…

  • June 3, 2026
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Google’s Phone App Now Flags Deepfake Callers, Using a Digital Handshake

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The call came from the number of a contact saved in the phone, and the voice on the line sounded like that person, warm and familiar,…

  • June 3, 2026
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OpenAI’s Codex Adds Plugins for Six Professions, Reaching Into Banking

NEW YORK — The workflow OpenAI demonstrated for its new investment banking plugin looked like a junior banker’s morning compressed into seconds. Codex pulled the comparable transactions, checked them against…

  • June 3, 2026
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Microsoft’s Project Solara Puts an Operating System on Standalone AI Devices

SEATTLE — The device on the Build 2026 stage had no screen, no keyboard, and no obvious way to control it. It was a small black puck sitting on a…