AI News Archive: June 2, 2026 — Part 17
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- Trump signs executive order that allows voluntary federal vetting of top AI models for national security risks
It was not immediately clear to what extent the order signed Tuesday differed from the one he declined to sign on May 21.
- Trump signs AI executive order to give government early look at new models
The order asks AI companies to share previews of powerful new models with the government before they are released to the public.
- Trump signs an executive order to vet top AI models for national security risks
President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order on oversight of artificial intelligence, less than two weeks after postponing a White House ceremony over his concerns that a similar policy could dull America’s edge on AI technology
- Trump signs order seeking early access to powerful AI models before release
The president signed an order seeking to establish a voluntary framework for AI companies to provide the government early access to new models.
- AI Executive Order Asks Companies for Early Model Access
AI Executive Order Asks Companies for Early Model Access Barron's
- Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released
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 the US AI industry has succeeded in part "because we refuse to stifle this […]
- Trump signs an executive order to vet top AI models for national security risks
Trump signs an executive order to vet top AI models for national security risks Boston Herald
- Trump signs order designed to give government early look at powerful AI models
Trump signs order designed to give government early look at powerful AI models
- Trump’s AI Executive Order Upgrades Federal Cyber Defenses
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday highlights security considerations and directs specific federal agencies to take actions intended to strengthen cybersecurity.
- Trump signs AI executive order after postponement last month
The order encourages developers of advanced AI to grant the U.S. and certain critical infrastructure operators 30 days of pre-release model access. Earlier drafts had set 90 days of early access.
- Trump administration releases scaled-back AI executive order
The order, which Trump refrained from signing at the last minute, appears to make significant concessions to industry compared to earlier drafts. The post Trump administration releases scaled-back AI executive order appeared first on FedScoop .
- Trump Signs Executive Order That Invites Vetting of Top AI Models for National Security Risks
The order establishes a framework for the federal government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI systems for up to a month before their public release. The post Trump Signs Executive Order That Invites Vetting of Top AI Models for National Security Risks appeared first on SecurityWeek .
- OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work
OpenAI released a set of six plug-ins aimed at specific jobs: data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Available from within the Codex app, each of the new tools bundles integrations, instructions, and context to allow Codex to approximate a specific job.
- Exclusive: Office workers embrace OpenAI's Codex
Knowledge workers now make up roughly one-fifth of OpenAI's Codex users and are growing more than three times as fast as developers, according to a new OpenAI report shared first with Axios. Why it matters: AI has made it easier to crank out documents, emails, decks and dashboards, and OpenAI is now betting agents can help workers make sense of them. The big picture: Previous waves of workplace software encouraged workers to produce huge volumes of files and messages, but those "workplace artifacts" largely remain siloed inside different software programs. The report argues that Codex can round up the important context from all of those artifacts no matter where they are. By the numbers: Codex now has more than 4 million weekly active users, up more than five times since OpenAI launched the desktop app in February, the company says. The fastest-growing tasks among knowledge workers are data analysis, up 110% week over week; research, up 37%; and knowledge artifacts — reports, memos, docs, contracts, multimedia assets, PDFs and spreadsheets — up 36%. More than 60% of users now run more than one Codex task at the same time at some point during the day, up from less than half in mid-April. Case in point: Codex can connect to your email, calendar, documents, spreadsheets, design apps and messaging apps like Slack and Teams. It only takes one click to set up a daily automation that can send a morning brief that includes what's on your calendar, important unread emails, and anything else that Codex thinks needs your attention. Catch up quick: Anthropic's Claude Code and Cowork were the first agentic tools to attract non-coders at scale. Anthropic released Claude Code in October 2025. Over the winter holidays, dabblers used their extra hours to experiment with it. Claude Code went viral in the new year and Claude itself coded the more office-focused app called Cowork. OpenAI released the Codex desktop app the following month. The other side: A growing number of power users say agentic tools are leaving them mentally fried , as they try to supervise several fast-moving AI workstreams at once. OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, now at Anthropic, told the "No Priors" podcast he had been in a "state of AI psychosis" since December, trying to figure out what was possible and "pushing it to the limit." Quentin Rousseau, CTO and co-founder of incident management platform Rootly, says using agents like Codex and Claude Code means getting more done. But, he says, the satisfaction that comes from a typical hard day's work is a lot different than the stress of managing agents. "It's kind of like the difference between running a marathon and watching, a really gripping TV series," he told Axios in March. "One tires you out and the other keeps you up all night." Zoom in: Andrew Hall, a Stanford Graduate School of Business professor, tells Axios that he and his students use coding agents like Codex and Claude Code to help with boilerplate academic tasks, data collection, statistical analysis and running code to process data. Earlier this year Hall asked Claude Code to update a paper he'd published five years ago on universal vote by mail. "We figured papers like this should be updated over time, but no one ever does that," he says. The tool gathered new data, ran analyses, produced figures and tables and drafted a new paper, "with not very much prompting," Hall said. But when Hall hired a graduate student to audit the work manually, the agent's limits became clear. "It didn't do everything right," Hall said. "It did a lot right, which is kind of remarkable, but it made a number of errors." The tool failed to collect all the data it needed and didn't quite code all the data correctly, he said, meaning it "very much needed an expert, Ph.D.-level student to oversee it quite closely." The bottom line: OpenAI is trying to reframe Codex from a tool for developers into something closer to an operating system for knowledge work.
- OpenAI expands Codex with role-specific plugins to build a general-purpose app for non-developers
OpenAI is expanding Codex with role-specific plugins for data analysis, sales, and investment banking. Five million people use the tool each week, and one in five isn't a developer, the company says. That non-developer group is growing three times faster than the developer base, a sign that OpenAI is positioning Codex as an all-purpose work app. The article OpenAI expands Codex with role-specific plugins to build a general-purpose app for non-developers appeared first on The Decoder .
- OpenAI is turning Codex from a coding tool into an enterprise work platform, and non-developers are adopting it 3x faster than engineers
OpenAI announced a major expansion of Codex on Tuesday, transforming its AI coding agent into a broader enterprise work platform with three new capabilities: Sites, a feature that lets users create and share hosted interactive web applications; Annotations, an in-place editing tool; and six role-specific plugins that aggregate 62 popular business applications including Snowflake, Figma, […] This story continues at The Next Web
- OpenAI extends Codex with productivity tools for nontechnical users
OpenAI Group PBC today released a set of features that will make it easier for nontechnical people to use its Codex automation tool. The update comes five months after Anthropic PBC added similar capabilities to Claude Cowork. Codex launched last April as a programming assistant embedded in the ChatGPT interface. It ran on codex-1, a […] The post OpenAI extends Codex with productivity tools for nontechnical users appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Microsoft's Project Solara is an Android OS designed for agents instead of apps
Microsoft missed the boat on apps, so get ready for agents.
- Is this 'the next computer'? Microsoft’s Project Solara looks to break AI out of the PC and into the real world
Project Solara is giving AI agents a taste of freedom, and could bring them to every part of your life.
- Meet Project Solara: Microsoft's Effort to Push AI Agents Into Smart Devices
Meet Project Solara: Microsoft's Effort to Push AI Agents Into Smart Devices PCMag
- Meet Project Solara: Microsoft's Effort to Push AI Agents Into Smart Devices
Meet Project Solara: Microsoft's Effort to Push AI Agents Into Smart Devices PCMag UK
- Meet Project Solara: Microsoft's Effort to Push AI Agents Into Smart Devices
Meet Project Solara: Microsoft's Effort to Push AI Agents Into Smart Devices PCMag Australia
- Inside Microsoft’s Project Solara: A new platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps
A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows. The first two concept devices, a desktop hub and a wearable badge, are headed to pilots with some big-name businesses. Read More
- Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches
International Mathematical Union endorses warning about tech industry influence.
- Microsoft Debuts New Nvidia-Powered “Dev Box” PC; OS for Wearable and Desktop “Agent First” Devices
Microsoft Debuts New Nvidia-Powered “Dev Box” PC; OS for Wearable and Desktop “Agent First” Devices The Information
- Microsoft debuts Surface RTX Spark Dev Box — Nvidia-powered mini-PC helps devs get ready for an agentic Windows
At Microsoft Build, the company debuted its Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a system for developers to come up with new AI applications.
- Microsoft Debuts AI-Focused Mini PC With Nvidia RTX Spark Inside
Microsoft Debuts AI-Focused Mini PC With Nvidia RTX Spark Inside PCMag
- Microsoft Debuts AI-Focused Mini PC With Nvidia RTX Spark Inside
Microsoft Debuts AI-Focused Mini PC With Nvidia RTX Spark Inside PCMag UK
- Microsoft Debuts AI-Focused Mini PC With Nvidia RTX Spark Inside
Microsoft Debuts AI-Focused Mini PC With Nvidia RTX Spark Inside PCMag Australia
- Microsoft announces Surface RTX Spark AI supercomputer development box
Microsoft Corp. today announced it’s bringing agentic development capabilities into the hands of developers with a new desktop form factor supercomputer called the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. Developed with Nvidia Corp.’s newly announced RTX Spark processor under the hood, it’s capable of delivering up to 1 petaflop of AI compute with 128 gigabytes of […] The post Microsoft announces Surface RTX Spark AI supercomputer development box appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Palo Alto Networks Raises Profit Outlook, Citing AI Demand
Palo Alto Networks Inc. released a forecast for adjusted earnings that was stronger than anticipated, signaling ongoing demand for security services as artificial intelligence-related threats continue to raise concerns for companies and governments.
- Palo Alto Networks tops earnings as AI fuels cybersecurity urgency
The beat comes on lowered expectations, after the company gave disappointing guidance in February that fell short of analyst estimates.
- We're upping our Palo Alto price target after strong earnings vanquish AI disruption fears
The business momentum is clear here, validating the stock's dramatic comeback to fresh highs.
- Palo Alto CEO says customer meeting requests have surged amid AI security concerns
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said artificial intelligence is increasing demand for cybersecurity solutions.
- Microsoft teases new era of AI-driven devices at annual developer conference
Microsoft teases new era of AI-driven devices at annual developer conference Reuters
- Microsoft testing wearable AI gadget aimed at office workers
The company said its own workers are testing a "wearable access badge" and a desktop device.
- Microsoft showcases new PC, cloud AI tools at developer conference
Microsoft's Build conference showcased the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. This powerful machine features an Nvidia chip, promising to bring advanced AI directly to personal computers. Microsoft aims to enhance AI safety for its Windows users and compete with rivals in the cloud and PC markets.
- Microsoft may debut first reasoning-focused AI model and more at Build 2026
Microsoft is reportedly preparing a range of AI and Windows-related announcements at Build 2026, including new models, developer tools, and RTX Spark integrations
- AI Model Release Tracker: Microsoft AI's first reasoning model arrives
Not every new model is all it's cracked up to be. Our tracker keeps each release in context with its peers, so you know which models are worth your time.
- Microsoft's first reasoning model is one of 7 AIs just released at Build - what we know so far
Microsoft AI has fully joined the conversation with MAI-Thinking-1, alongside new coding, image, and voice models.
- Microsoft unveils its first AI reasoning model ahead of OpenAI IPO
Microsoft unveils its first AI reasoning model ahead of OpenAI IPO Nikkei Asia
- Microsoft launches new MAI family of AI models for reasoning, voice, coding, and images
At Microsoft Build 2026, the company announced a new family of models, MAI, led by its first reasoning model, MAI-Thinking-1.
- Microsoft’s Big New Idea for AI Gadgets Is a Badge With a Camera
Move over, AI pendants; it's badge time.
- Google’s AI Fundraising; Anthropic’s IPO Option
Google’s AI Fundraising; Anthropic’s IPO Option The Information
- Microsoft debuts an expansion of its model families and agentic AI intelligence for developers
Microsoft Corp. announced an expansion to its artificial intelligence models and agentic AI infrastructure today that brings more data and context into the hands of developers and business users as they deploy. During the company’s Microsoft Build annual developer conference in San Francisco, the company made Microsoft IQ generally available. It is the company’s unified […] The post Microsoft debuts an expansion of its model families and agentic AI intelligence for developers appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Microsoft expected to showcase new PC, cloud AI tools
Microsoft holds its annual software developer conference today, where the company is expected to showcase new tools for developers building AI software for PCs and the cloud.
- Microsoft teases new era of AI-driven devices
To be used in place of traditional apps.
- Microsoft Unveils AI Models In Push For Independence From OpenAI
Microsoft Unveils AI Models In Push For Independence From OpenAI Barron's
- Microsoft’s first advanced reasoning AI is here
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 companies recently renegotiated their deal to loosen ties. According […]
- Microsoft unveils AI models in push for independence from OpenAI
Microsoft unveiled its own cutting-edge artificial intelligence models in San Francisco on Tuesday, a crucial step toward reducing its dependence on OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.