Microsoft unveiled ASSERT (Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing) on June 3, 2026, translating plain-language expected AI behaviors into structured acceptable/unacceptable sets, generating tests, and scoring results while recording intermediate actions and tool calls. Sarah Bird says it covers an application-specific evaluation gap broader methods miss.
On June 2, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order that gives certain AI companies a voluntary 30-day submission window for government testing/evaluation before public release, scaled back from an earlier up-to-90-day draft. It also bars any mandatory licensing and directs DOJ to prioritize AI-assisted hacking and unauthorized access.
A Seattle class action filed June 2, 2026 by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt targets Ring’s Familiar Faces, launched Dec. 2025, which identifies regular visitors and sends alerts like “Dad is at the door.” The suit argues passersby have their facial recognition collected without consent, while Amazon says face data is encrypted, never shared, and deleted after 30 days.
OpenAI released a new set of capabilities for its Codex platform on Tuesday, June 3, 2026, targeting enterprise and knowledge workers with six job-specific plug-ins and two new productivity…
AI compliance startup ZeroDrift announced in June 2026 that it has raised $10 million in a seed funding round to expand its service, which sits between AI models and end users to detect and rewrite…
Alphabet says it will raise $80B via stock sales announced Monday to scale AI infrastructure and “global compute,” including $10B to Berkshire Hathaway. It cites demand outstripping supply and pegs 2026 capex at $180–$190B after last month’s Google I/O comments.
Florida’s Attorney General sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on June 2, 2026, in what officials are calling the first state-led lawsuit of its kind, alleging the company ignored safety warnings and…
Atlas Menu, a paid GTA V cheat service, was hacked in 2026, exposing nearly 64,000 users with emails, usernames, hashed passwords, and IPs. The hacker posted the data on GitHub, and Have I Been Pwned reported the breach on June 1, 2026.
A new app called The Mall launched in 2026 with the goal of consolidating online shopping into a single personalized feed, allowing users to track sales, restocks, and new drops across thousands of…
Windborne Systems released the sixth version of its AI weather forecasting model, WeatherMesh 6, on June 1, 2026, claiming it outperforms predictions from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather…
Strava will tighten AI scraping by moving public profiles and club listings behind authentication and charging developers a flat $11.99/month API fee starting June 2026, with a 90-day grace period. CEO Michael Martin told TechCrunch that Perplexity scraped via aggregators and hurt performance, and Strava will retire some API endpoints like club details.
India’s Delhi High Court ruled on May 22, 2026, that Google infringed trademark rights by allowing competitors to purchase trademarked brand names as advertising keywords — a decision that has since…
