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Date: 2026-06-04
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Valve says it’s ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer

Valve now says that the delayed Steam Machine PC and Steam Frame VR headset are set to launch sometime this summer. In a Thursday blog post detailing its Verified programs for both pieces of hardware, Valve concludes by saying that “We’re excited for players to try your titles on the new Steam hardware once they launch this summer.” When the company…

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Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic's Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI's returns

Private investors have been falling over themselves to get a piece of Anthropic, given the AI model maker is growing at a dizzying pace. Multiple investors told TechCrunch that the company’s $65 billion fundraise at a $965 billion valuation, announced last week, was greatly oversubscribed.

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Ask HN: High school student - is learning programming still worthwhile?

As a high school student, I’m trying to figure out what major I’m interested in. About half a year ago, I thought EECS was a great major for some STEM students like me, because I see many of the world's most influential entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk and Jensen Huang, have built companies around software, hardware, and artificial intelligence, helping…

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Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles

With just two weeks to go, StrictlyVC Los Angeles is quickly approaching. On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus in El Segundo, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the most consequential shifts taking place across venture capital, defense technology, artificial intelligence,…

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Cyberdecks used to look like little laptops, but now they’re getting more personal

DIYer and TikTok user Annike Tan, who goes by @ubeboobey , can carry her cyberdeck around without anyone noticing because it doesn’t look like a computer at all . Tan, who has been featured in The Cut and Wired , went viral earlier this year with a mermaid-themed cyberdeck she made inside an old purse.

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Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk

WSJ Anthropic is calling for top artificial intelligence labs to weigh slowing the pace of development, suggesting that AI systems are advancing so rapidly that they may soon be able to improve themselves without human intervention in ways that could pose significant societal risks. The ability to slow global AI development would “likely be a good thing,”…

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Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety: Customizable Multimodal Safety for Global Enterprise AI

Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety: Customizable Multimodal Safety for Global Enterprise AI The last two years have seen NVIDIA's content safety stack grow from a focused English text classifier into a family of specialized models—each extending coverage to new modalities, languages, and inference modes. Nemotron 3 Content Safety , released in March 2026,…

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Apple approves Poke as the first AI agent on its Messages for Business platform

Poke , a startup that turns using AI agents into something as simple as sending a text message, has become the first AI agent approved to run on Apple’s Messages for Business platform . Previously, the platform was designed for businesses — airlines, retailers, hotel chains, and others — to communicate with their own customers through iMessage, offering a…

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Prime Minister Carney launches AI for All: Canada’s new national artificial intelligence strategy

The world is changing rapidly, with intensifying economic competition, accelerating technological change, and a global race to secure the talent, infrastructure, and innovation that will define the future. Artificial intelligence (AI) is at the centre of that transformation, changing how people live and work, how businesses compete, and how countries…

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Google is letting social media stars customize their search result page

Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim dedicated profiles in Search to highlight things like videos, articles, and their other profiles online. But this feature won’t be available to most people or organizations; Google is limiting it to people with at least 100,000 YouTube subscribers, 100,000 followers on Instagram or X, or 300,000…

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Kevin O’Leary agrees to downsize massive Utah data center

Kevin O’Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate ABC4 . The Shark Tank star sent a letter to Utah Senate President J.

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Amazon’s new plan for games: James Bond and AI Snoop Dogg

Amazon’s gaming strategy has never really been clear. It’s been very active in the space: acquiring Twitch , launching its Luna cloud gaming service nearly six years ago , investing heavily in MMOs during the peak of live-service wave, and having access to a huge slate of franchises through Prime Video and the MGM Studios library .

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits AI token costs are becoming 'a huge issue' - company seeks improved value as overspending becomes a meme

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said in an interview that companies are now concerned about the growing costs of AI use. Speaking during the Intelligence at Work event, he said this is the first time that OpenAI’s clients raised the issue and that the startup is now looking for ways to make its models more efficient.

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Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook

Meta announced on Thursday that it’s introducing a new AI creator assistant on Facebook that will give creators personalized recommendations based on their content style, performance, community, and goals. Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand their performance, but with the new AI assistant, they can get quick answers to…

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Windows is back on the Microsoft menu

I can’t remember the last time Microsoft kicked off a Build keynote with Windows front and center, but that’s exactly what CEO Satya Nadella did this week. Nadella didn’t address the issues Microsoft is trying to fix in Windows 11 but chose to woo the audience with Microsoft’s slick Surface RTX Spark Dev Kit instead, calling it a “dream machine.” Nadella…

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Cash App made a magic wand for contactless payments

The convenience of contactless payments can already feel magical, but Cash App is really leaning into that with its latest accessory. The mobile payment service is launching the Cash App Wand: an NFC-enabled, iridescent, star-topped wand that allows users to make on-the-go payments without pulling out their phone or card.