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Ben Thompson interviews Satya Nadella on Microsoft’s AI independence drive, and Congress drafts three years of state AI law preemption. NVIDIA debuts Cosmos 3 and RTX Spark at Computex, OpenAI’s frontier models reach Amazon Bedrock, Thoughtworks on the Claude outage as infrastructure reckoning, Uber caps developer AI spend, Google scrubs human-oversight language, Charity Majors on the AI adopter divide, and Webb finds methane on an interstellar comet.

Eight heavy-lane items on AI strategy, infrastructure, policy, and enterprise adoption, one engineering culture essay, and one astronomy wildcard.

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Ben Thompson / Stratechery · Jun 4

An Interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella About Finding Core Competencies

Ben Thompson interviews Satya Nadella on Microsoft’s shift to proprietary MAI models to reduce OpenAI dependence and give enterprises customizable AI.

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Latent Space · Jun 3

Satya Nadella: No Priors x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build

Nadella joins Latent Space and No Priors hosts to discuss Microsoft’s Frontier Intelligence Platform and enterprise AI ROI challenges at Build 2026.

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Latent Space · Jun 2

[AINews] NVIDIA Cosmos 3, Nemotron 3 Ultra, and RTX Spark

Weekly roundup covers NVIDIA’s Cosmos 3 world model, Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B, and RTX Spark personal AI supercomputer from Computex 2026.

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AWS Blog · Jun 1

Get started with OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 models, and Codex on Amazon Bedrock

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex are now available on Amazon Bedrock with token-based pricing across select AWS regions.

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Roll Call · Jun 4

Bipartisan AI draft proposes three-year preemption of state laws

The Great American Artificial Intelligence Act would establish federal AI safety standards and block state AI regulation for three years.

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Thoughtworks · Jun 3

Claude outage, June 2026: Reckoning with AI’s increasing status as infrastructure

Analysis of the June 2 Claude service disruption argues enterprises must design graceful degradation as LLMs become critical infrastructure.

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Simon Willison · Jun 3

Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs

Uber set a $1,500/month per-employee cap on agentic coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code following budget overruns.

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Simon Willison · Jun 4

Google Removes ‘Humans in the Loop’ Language from Statement to 404 Media

Google quietly removed human-oversight language from a public AI statement after 404 Media reported on the original version.

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Charity Majors · Jun 2

AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy

Majors frames AI adoption as two rational races: enthusiasts against competitive urgency, skeptics against the entropy of sustained resistance.

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Wildcard · Astronomy · ScienceDaily · Jun 3

NASA’s Webb Detects Methane and Strange Chemistry on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

James Webb made the first direct detection of methane on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, along with unexpectedly high carbon dioxide levels.