Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers

New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out. In a blog post running more than 3,100 words, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith addressed the recent spate of viral clips from graduation ceremonies, like former Google CEO … Read more

The future of AI regulation is courting the strangest, most anxious bedfellows

(L-R) Sen. Mike Rounds, Pamela Brown, Chris Malachowsky, Kevin O’Leary, Gabriele Caccia, Tammy Haddad, Michele L. Jawando, Sen. Mark Warner, Michael Kelly and Major General Patrick Ellis attend the Second Annual AI Honors. | Getty Images for Washington AI N Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politics, tech influence, … Read more

Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns

Anthropic released Claude Fable, its first Mythos-class AI model, yesterday and it’s already causing concerns inside Microsoft. Sources tell me that Microsoft is limiting the use of Claude Fable 5 for employees because of Anthropic’s new data retention requirements. While Microsoft quickly rolled out Claude Fable 5 to its GitHub Copilot and Foundry customers, I’m … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Missing Layer in Fei-Fei Lis World Model Taxonomy (6/10/2026)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 10, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Apple Released the Apple II in 1977, Microsoft Acquired GeCAD’s Antivirus Technology in 2003, Apple Introduced macOSX 10.9 in 2013, Croatia Was Approved to Join the EU in … Read more