# AI News Digest - 2026-06-04

1. The White House issued an executive order directing agencies including the Pentagon and CISA to strengthen cyber defenses with AI tools within 30 days and invited AI developers to voluntarily submit models for government safety testing while explicitly ruling out mandatory approval.

2. Google gave website operators an opt-out toggle in Search Console for AI features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode, added performance reports that broke out impressions separately, and implemented the change following prompting from the UK Competition and Markets Authority.

3. Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 12B, an open-source multimodal model that processed text, images, and audio natively, ran on laptops with 16 GB of RAM, nearly matched the 26B model in benchmarks, and was distributed under an Apache 2.0 license permitting commercial use.

4. Microsoft announced seven new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including its first reasoning model, a new tuning method, and an autonomous background agent.

5. OpenAI expanded Codex with role-specific plugins for domains such as data analysis, sales, and investment banking, reported five million weekly users, and said non-developer users were growing three times faster than developers as it positioned Codex as a general-purpose work app.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/trumps-new-executive-order-wants-ai-companies-to-voluntarily-submit-models-for-government-safety-reviews/](https://the-decoder.com/trumps-new-executive-order-wants-ai-companies-to-voluntarily-submit-models-for-government-safety-reviews/)

[Trump's new executive order wants AI companies to voluntarily submit models for government safety reviews](https://the-decoder.com/trumps-new-executive-order-wants-ai-companies-to-voluntarily-submit-models-for-government-safety-reviews/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to-go/](https://the-decoder.com/google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to-go/)

[Google lets sites opt out of AI search results, knowing most have nowhere else to go](https://the-decoder.com/google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to-go/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-gemma-4-12b-squeezes-multimodal-ai-onto-a-laptop-with-just-16-gb-of-ram/](https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-gemma-4-12b-squeezes-multimodal-ai-onto-a-laptop-with-just-16-gb-of-ram/)

[Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B squeezes multimodal AI onto a laptop with just 16 GB of RAM](https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-gemma-4-12b-squeezes-multimodal-ai-onto-a-laptop-with-just-16-gb-of-ram/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/build-2026-microsoft-tops-google-in-image-generation-while-playing-catch-up-on-reasoning/](https://the-decoder.com/build-2026-microsoft-tops-google-in-image-generation-while-playing-catch-up-on-reasoning/)

[Build 2026: Microsoft tops Google in image generation while playing catch-up on reasoning](https://the-decoder.com/build-2026-microsoft-tops-google-in-image-generation-while-playing-catch-up-on-reasoning/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/openai-expands-codex-with-role-specific-plugins-to-build-a-general-purpose-app-for-non-developers/](https://the-decoder.com/openai-expands-codex-with-role-specific-plugins-to-build-a-general-purpose-app-for-non-developers/)

[OpenAI expands Codex with role-specific plugins to build a general-purpose app for non-developers](https://the-decoder.com/openai-expands-codex-with-role-specific-plugins-to-build-a-general-purpose-app-for-non-developers/)

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