Amazon said it is discontinuing its Amazon One palm authentication system for retailers June 3. Data, including palm scans and transactions, will be deleted. 

Amazon's big bet on groceries now revolves around Whole Foods and its own delivery. The company said that it is closing its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations and some of them will become Whole Foods locations. The company said it is prioritizing its brick-and-mortar investments. "While we've seen encouraging signals in our Amazon-branded physical grocery stores, we haven't yet created a truly distinctive customer experience with the right economic model needed for large-scale expansion," the company said.

Google added Gemini 3 to AI overviews and added the ability to ask follow-up questions in AI Mode. Aside from retooling Google search, the company is also creating a data flywheel that feeds back into Gemini training. Here's the bet: Google's Gemini app and search will ultimately merge into one experience.

D-Wave announced a bevy of deals and advances at its Qubits 2026 conference in Florida. D-Wave landed a $10 million quantum computing as a service deal with a Fortune 100 customer, inked a $20 million agreement with Florida Atlantic University for its Advantage2 Quantum Computer, and announced new annealing and gate-model quantum computing technologies as well as a collaboration with Anduril and Davidson on US air and missile defense.

Infosys said it will integrate Cursor AI into its Infosys Topaz Fabric agentic platform. The two companies will also create a center of excellence to accelerate the use of software engineering AI agents. 

Corning will provide optical fiber, cable and connectivity products to Meta under a $6 billion agreement. Corning will ramp manufacturing in North America. Meta said the deal will accelerate its data center buildout. 

Thoughtworks in its most recent Looking Glass report argued that companies need to reconfigure structures and architecture for adaptive AI-driven systems.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei whipped up a 38-page essay warning about the potential damages to civilization once superintelligence AI is created. Does humanity have the maturity to handle it? I think we know the answer to that question. The essay is worth a read. 

Alibaba-backed Qwen released Qwen3-Max-Thinking, the open-source project's flagship model that performs as well as leading large language models on key benchmarks. 

CoreWeave said Nvidia invested $2 billion at a purchase price of $87.20 a share. The investment will enable CoreWeave to accelerate its buildout of more than 5 gigawatts of AI factories by 2030. 

Intel said server demand is strong due to AI workloads, but it is struggling to ramp capacity and is prioritizing data center. The company's first quarter outlook was below forecast. 

IFS said its annual recurring revenue was up 23% and cloud revenue up 30% for 2025. The company, which specializes in industrial AI, didn't disclose figures since it isn't public, but noted it is moving industrial AI pilots to production. The directional results are a follow up to a late 2025 analyst day.