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Today, Microsoft Build brought the announcement of Project Solara, a new chip-to-cloud platform for AI agents. With the reveal, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an interesting quote on the company’s vision for an agent-first computing future. more…

Hi HN, we’re Rishi and Sahil. We’ve developed Rudus (https://www.rudus.ai/), an AI-powered takeoff and estimation platform built for concrete subcontractors. Takeoff is the process of measuring and quantifying materials from concrete plan sheets. Rudus identifies every concrete structure (footing...

https://microsoft.ai/models/mai-code-1-flash/ https://microsoft.ai/pdf/MAI-Code-1-Flash-Model-Card.PDF Launching seven new MAI models: https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-la... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374466 Points: 306 # Comments: 143

https://microsoft.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/main_2026060... Launching seven new MAI models: https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-la... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374362 Points: 157 # Comments: 68

Meanwhile, Anthropic adds 150 partners to Project Glasswing

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they're released "to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure." The order says ...

A new reading subscription from Everand offers access to both e-books and audiobooks, and Fable's book club community.

International Mathematical Union endorses warning about tech industry influence.

The caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.

Microsoft’s new Majorana 2 quantum chip. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft claimed last year that it had made a key breakthrough in quantum computing with Majorana 1, the company's first quantum processor. While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft's claims, the software giant is annou...

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 models. The two compa...

I like the UE Wonderboom 4 Bluetooth speaker so much that I bought two of them, though I wish I could have paid less for them. Fortunately, you can stock up on the cheap, so long as you like the color blue. The Wonderboom 4 is available in blue at Amazon for $51.49, and at Walmart and Best Buy fo...

Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.

Google's June Android feature drop includes more scam detection, more AirDrop, and yes, more AI.

Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation signal” to ensure whoever’s calling you is who they appear to be.

Microsoft’s OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks.

The specification lets developer, compliance, and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.

As people increasingly refuse to answer calls from unknown numbers, scammers are shifting their tactics by spoofing trusted phone numbers and using AI deepfake technology to sound like authority figures, family members, or employers.

Layup Parts co-founder Zack Eakin has drawn on a motorsports background, and his experience working for Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk, to tackle making faster, cheaper, and better composites.