Samwise Tech/AI/Robotics Newsletter
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Trump Signs Narrower AI Executive Order After Industry Pushback on 90-Day Review Window
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday requiring AI companies to voluntarily submit powerful new models to the government for testing 30 days before public release. An earlier draft called for a 90-day window, but industry insiders pushed back, and former White House AI adviser David Sacks voiced concerns. Trump said he did not want to slow AI firms competing against China. The order explicitly bars the government from creating a mandatory licensing requirement for AI releases. The Department of Justice is directed to treat AI-assisted hacking as a high-priority enforcement area.
Sources: TechCrunch
Anthropic Files Confidential IPO Registration With SEC at Near-$1 Trillion Valuation
Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude, filed confidentially for an initial public offering on Monday, submitting a draft registration statement to the SEC. The company, currently valued at $965 billion, has not set a share price or disclosed the number of shares to be offered. The filing comes less than a week after Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round co-led by Altimeter Capital, Sequoia, and Coatue. Anthropic joins a crowded pipeline that includes SpaceX, targeting a $2 trillion valuation, and OpenAI, which raised $122 billion in March at an $852 billion valuation and is also expected to file.
Sources: TechCrunch
OpenAI Expands Codex With Six Job-Specific Enterprise Plug-ins for Non-Developer Knowledge Workers
OpenAI expanded its Codex agentic platform on Tuesday with six job-specific plug-ins targeting non-developer enterprise users, covering data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. The company said Codex now has more than 5 million weekly active users, up more than 6x since the desktop app launched in February, with knowledge workers making up about 20 percent of users and growing three times faster than developers. A new Sites feature outputs work as a hosted interactive website, with partners including Wix, Replit, and Figma. A new Annotations feature allows more precise document-level commands.
Sources: TechCrunch
Nvidia RTX Spark Superchip Brings 1-Petaflop AI Agent PCs to Dell, HP, Microsoft, and More
Nvidia unveiled its RTX Spark CPU at Computex Taipei on Sunday, a 1-petaflop chip designed to run AI agents securely on consumer Windows PCs. Devices will be available this fall from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, and MSI, with Acer and Gigabyte to follow. Microsoft is calling its own RTX Spark device the Surface Laptop Ultra, describing it as the most powerful Surface Laptop ever built. The chips include secure sandboxes, jointly developed with Microsoft, for running agents locally. CEO Jensen Huang has targeted the $200 billion PC CPU market as Nvidia’s next major growth opportunity beyond GPUs.
Sources: TechCrunch
Hackers Brute-Force Dashlane Two-Factor Auth, Steal Encrypted Vaults From 20 Customers
Password manager Dashlane disclosed Monday that hackers stole encrypted vaults from approximately 20 customers during a weekend cyberattack. Attackers brute-forced the company’s two-factor authentication by using automated software to rapidly submit numeric code combinations, then downloaded the targeted vaults. Dashlane said its own systems showed no evidence of compromise but has not disclosed how attackers bypassed the two-factor protections at scale. The stolen vaults are encrypted and require a customer’s master password to open; however, Dashlane warned customers with weak master passwords face a higher risk. The incident echoes a 2022 LastPass breach in which stolen vaults later had master passwords cracked.
Sources: TechCrunch
DuckDuckGo Launches Chrome and Firefox Extensions for AI-Free Search as Traffic Surges 84%
DuckDuckGo launched new Chrome and Firefox extensions on Sunday that let users set its AI-free search page, noai.duckduckgo.com, as their default. The extensions return results with no AI-generated answers, no chat prompts, and fewer AI images. The company said visits to the no-AI page tripled on May 28, after Google announced it would lead search results with AI-generated overviews, pushing traditional links below the fold. Traffic to the no-AI page is now averaging 84 percent above baseline, and U.S. app installs rose 18.1 percent week-over-week. DuckDuckGo says iOS installs peaked at 69.9 percent week-over-week growth in that same period.
Sources: TechCrunch
Sensory Robotics Earns UL Certification for SR-1 System That Lets Industrial Robots Work Cage-Free
Sensory Robotics announced Monday that its SR-1 safety system has received UL certification under cULus 1740, enabling industrial robots to operate alongside humans without physical safety cages. The SR-1 uses 3D vision and sensors to create real-time safety zones around robotic arms, adjusting robot movements as people enter the workspace. The certification, validated to Performance Level d Category 3 with a PFHd of 1.73e-7, took 20 months to achieve. Traditional robot safety shutdowns can take up to 10 minutes per incident, Sensory Robotics says, causing significant production downtime. Toyota, the Department of Defense, Procter and Gamble, and Caterpillar have contacted the company to install SR-1 systems.
Sources: Robotics & Automation News
Tech Pulse
Top Frontier Models (SWE-bench Verified): Claude Mythos Preview (93.9%) | Claude Opus 4.8 (88.6%) | Claude Opus 4.7 Adaptive (87.6%)
Top Open Source Models (GPQA Diamond): Kimi K2.6 (90.5%) | GLM-5 (77.8% SWE-bench) | DeepSeek V3.2-Speciale (strong coding)
Top Small Models (15–50B): Llama 4 Maverick (85.5% MMLU) | Qwen3.7 Max | Mistral Large 3
Top Edge Models (0–15B): Qwen 3.2B-Instruct | Gemma 3 4B | Llama 4 Scout (10M ctx)
AI Leaders: Nvidia $5.23T | Alphabet $4.63T | Microsoft $3.11T
Robotics Leaders: Intuitive Surgical $175.2B | ABB Group ~$80B | Fanuc ~$40B
Curated by JD · samwise.agency
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