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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for June 4, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out Ars Technica
  2. Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal TechCrunch
  3. Google's new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM Ars Technica
  4. Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon TechCrunch
  5. Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE Ars Technica
  6. 7 Ways New Engineers Can Flourish in the Age of AI IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  7. As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise The Verge
  8. How virtual power plants could provide energy for data centers MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  9. Amazon’s search bar will invent AI-generated products you can’t buy The Verge
  10. Amazon will show AI product images when you search for some reason TechCrunch
  11. Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight The Verge
  12. Inside Meta's attempts to play catch-up with AI Ars Technica
  13. Direct Preference Optimization Beyond Chatbots Hugging Face
  14. The Download: Trump’s new AI order, and smart glasses for warfare MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  15. Adding MCP Tools to Reachy Mini Hugging Face
  16. Holo3.1: Fast & Local Computer Use Agents Hugging Face
  17. Why Aren’t We Measuring How AI Affects Humans? IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  18. The Download: AI can run your admin department now MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  19. Rehumanizing global health care with agentic AI MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  20. Introducing Mellum2: A 12B Mixture-of-Experts Model by JetBrains Hugging Face
  21. New Server Hopes to Break Through AI’s “Memory Wall” IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  22. Finding Success in Industry as a Chip Designer IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  23. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  24. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  25. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  26. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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