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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Hackers say they used Meta's AI support chatbot to change emails tied to Instagram accounts, amid a wave of high-profile account takeovers; Meta fixed the issue — The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI. — Hackers say that they used Meta's AI support chatbot …
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Bluesky: @rahaeli, @marygillis, @natanael, @lawprofblawg, @joemenn, @datnofact, @404media.co, @nslayton, @karlbode.com, @josephcox, @golikehellmachine.com, @faineg, @lizharvey, @nslayton, @joshuafoust.com, and @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com. Threads: @karissabe
Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social and @evacide@hachyderm.io
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO, which could happen as soon as this fall, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in preparing to go public in 2026 — The artificial intelligence company, which is racing OpenAI to the stock market, has seen explosive growth over the last year thanks largely …
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X: @anthropicai, @danprimack, @dee_bosa, @patrick_oshag, @hosseeb, @code_star, @kimmonismus, @netcapgirl, @edzitron, @kevinroose, @mtslive, @zck, @hkarthik, @quinnypig, @kylejeong, @auchenberg, @lizrhoffman, @hkarthik, @zck, @jimcramer, and @mikeisaac. LinkedIn: Hayden Field
Forums: r/VCX_Fundrise, r/Anthropic, and r/sanfrancisco
| NBC News: |
Florida AG James Uthmeier sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, seeking to hold Altman personally liable for deceptive trade practices, negligence, and public nuisance — Florida's seeks to hold Sam Altman personally liable, accusing OpenAI of marketing ChatGPT as safe while concealing that it could drive users toward harm.
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X: @agjamesuthmeier, @agjamesuthmeier, @protectaxpayers, and @hadas_gold. Bluesky: @peark.es. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News, r/PoliticalOptimism, r/antiai, r/technology, and r/florida
| Bloomberg: |
Alphabet is raising $80B in equity offerings, including a $10B investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway, to help raise money for its AI spending plans — Google parent Alphabet Inc. is raising $80 billion in equity offerings, including an investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway Inc. … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
HPE reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to $10.7B, vs. $9.74B est., Server revenue up 33%, forecasts revenue for FY26 and FY27 above est.; HPE jumps 30%+ after hours — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. shares soared in extended trading after the company gave an outlook for annual sales that topped estimates …
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X: @zerohedge, @faststocknewss, and @hpe
| Rohan Prabhu / Step Security Blog: |
Researchers find packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace shipped malware that harvests credentials for GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, Azure, and others — Several packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm scope were found to carry malicious payloads that fire via a preinstall hook on every npm install.
More: GitHub, Aikido Security's Blog, TechRadar, wiz.io, Ars Technica, Cyber Security News, and Socket
X: @jfrogsecurity, @socketsecurity, @mitsuhiko, @msftsecintel, and @socketsecurity. Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, r/cybersecurity, and Slashdot
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family it calls “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, made on TSMC 3 in partnership with MediaTek — Nvidia enters the consumer laptop realm. Nvidia enters the consumer laptop realm.
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Windows Blog, SiliconANGLE, The Motley Fool, ServeTheHome, Windows Central, Business Insider, IGN, Forbes, Tom's Hardware, Crypto Briefing, Aardvark, CNBC, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, Reuters, Club386, PCGamesN, Digital Foundry, iDrop News, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, PCMag, VideoCardz.com, and VideoCardz.com
X: @satyanadella, @windows, @nvidiartxspark, @nvidiageforce, @caro_milanesi, @shanaka86, @marcelolima, @nvidiartxspark, @mweinbach, @caro_milanesi, @zacbowden, @jonmasters, @benbajarin, @mweinbach, @scobleizer, @iren_ltd, @mtslive, @zacbowden, @benbajarin, @kimmonismus, @jonmasters, @benthepcguy, @lukolejnik, @msitweets, @asus, @benitoz, @idleprotocol, @realnickmugalli, @tomwarren, @varunkrish, @tengyanai, and @tengyanai
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/linux, r/pcmasterrace, r/hardware, r/hardware, r/nvidia, and r/intelstock
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
More: Windows Blog, YouTube, Windows Latest, Tom's Hardware, Ars Technica, Windows Central, MacRumors, MobileSyrup, How-To Geek, GSMArena.com, HotHardware, WinBuzzer, Gizmodo, TechSpot, and VideoCardz.com
X: @mtslive, @zacbowden, @timsweeneyepic, @vadimyuryev, @bdsams, @bdsams, @ryanshrout, @pavandavuluri, @ben_a_adams, @tomwarren, @surface, @tomwarren, @pavandavuluri, @tomwarren, and @kellabyte. LinkedIn: Abhay Dalvi. Bluesky: @emilprotalinski. Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …
Forums: r/gadgets, r/windowscentral, r/Surface, and r/Surface
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
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X: @benbajarin, @hp, @tomwarren, @varunkrish, @stocksavvyshay, and @mweinbach. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski. Bluesky: @lynoure.eurosky.social
Forums: r/technology, r/wallstreetbets, and Slashdot
| The Information: |
Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; source: Salesforce paid between $1B and $1.5B, a steep discount from Contentful's $3B valuation in 2021 — Salesforce is acquiring Contentful, a provider of content management software for businesses, in the latest sign of its efforts …
More: Salesforce, Constellation Research, and Salesforce Ben
| Michelle Ma / Bloomberg: |
Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a $250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom — Gigascale Capital closed a $250 million fund for early-stage startups. — Climate tech venture capital firm Gigascale Capital …
More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Pulse 2.0, and Ventureburn
| CoinDesk: |
SEC filing: Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 for ~$2.5M, at an average net price of $77,135 per coin, its first disclosed bitcoin disposal — The 8-K filing Monday says proceeds from the May 26-31 sale, executed at an average price of $77,135 a coin, will fund distributions on Strategy's preferred stock.
More: Bloomberg, The Block, Benzinga, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, crypto.news, The Crypto Basic, The Big Whale, Bitcoin Magazine, Coinspeaker, and CryptoPotato
X: @defiyst, @thestalwart, and @negligible_cap
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Binance launches trading for 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for non-US users, with zero commissions and fractional share purchases, as part of its “super app” push — Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Monday that its users will be able to trade more than 7,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs.
More: Reuters, Bitcoin News, Decrypt, and Blockonomi
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users of Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster at AI workloads than x86 chips — Nvidia Corp. said Anthropic PBC, OpenAI and SpaceX are among the first big users of its upcoming microprocessor … | Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Chinese AI developer MiniMax debuts M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Claude Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 — Chinese AI developer MiniMax on Monday launched a new large language model called M3, saying the new model's coding capability approaches …
More: MiniMax, The Decoder, VentureBeat, Implicator.ai, WinBuzzer, and MarkTechPost
| Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg: |
IBM shares jump 7.6% after a nearly six-month old video of President Trump praising CEO Arvind Krishna recirculated on X; IBM was already up ~40% over two weeks — A nearly six-month old video of Donald Trump praising International Business Machines Corp.'s CEO sent the shares surging … | Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic plans to let the EU's cyber agency ENISA join Project Glasswing and access Mythos; EU officials went to the US last week to ask for access — Anthropic PBC is set to give the European Union's cybersecurity body access to Mythos, the first EU agency to get access …
More: Bloomberg, Politico, Financial Times, CNBC, and DeviceSecurity.io
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia unveils DGX Station for Windows, a desktop PC powered by a GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748GB of memory, capable of running 1T-parameter models — Nvidia Corp. says it's uprooting supercomputers from the vast, sprawling data center complexes they normally live inside …
More: Nvidia Newsroom, CIO Dive, GamesBeat, StorageReview.com, HotHardware, AIwire, and ServeTheHome
X: @michaelarnaldi, @gnukeith, @chrisschmitz, and @mweinbach
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning model developed by Microsoft AI, and Windows improvements for developers — Build will include a Copilot super app, a new reasoning AI model, and lots of Windows improvements.| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220+ are “fallen unicorns” — Five years ago, venture capitalists were pouring money into American startups selling everything from lingerie subscriptions … | Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: |
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter MoE open model; Artificial Analysis: it's the smartest open US model but trails the Chinese model Kimi K2.6 — It has roughly 550 billion total parameters, with about 55 billion active at any given time. On the Artificial Analysis … | Bernie Sanders / New York Times: |
Bernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates “must benefit humanity”, calling for a sovereign wealth fund that would hold ownership stakes in top US AI companies — Artificial intelligence will almost certainly be the most transformational technology in the history of the world.
More: Gizmodo, The Washington Free Beacon, Mashable, Washington Examiner, and Truthout
X: @sensanders, @jachiam0, @emostaque, @logandobson, @scaling01, @sensanders, @altryne, @rbmd1982, @mattbruenig, @ourrevolution, @kevintfrazier, @deanwball, @nateforutah, @richardhanania, @ranavain, @mattbruenig, @matthewstoller, and @janeaflegal
Bluesky: @melissaryan, @jeremyschulman, and @moskov.goodventures.org
Forums: r/politics, r/antiai, r/DeepStateCentrism, r/DemocraticSocialism, r/stupidpol, r/aiwars, r/SocialDemocracy, and r/economy
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Strava is adding an $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access and moving public profiles and fitness club listings behind authentication to combat AI scraping — AI companies have grown into data-hungry entities as their models require ever-larger datasets to train on.
More: STRAVA Developer Hub, Strava, and Neowin
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Source: Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth ~$5B; Salesforce first invested about $50M in an early 2023 round and has continually invested in rounds since — Salesforce Inc. has a stake in Anthropic PBC worth about $5 billion after repeatedly investing in the ascendant AI startup.
More: The Information, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, The Tech Portal, and Benzinga
| Bloomberg: |
Nasdaq, FTSE, and other index providers are shortening their entry timelines to accommodate SpaceX's record $75B IPO, as Elon Musk targets retail investors — The company's ambitious listing plan is set to clear the way for other mega-offerings. It also risks threatening the integrity of the market itself| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50M led by a16z — Endra, a startup automating the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, it tells Axios exclusively.| Financial Times: |
SoftBank becomes Japan's biggest company by market value after hitting an all-time high, overtaking Toyota, which has been the country's largest for 20+ years — Demand for AI stocks powers tech giant's shares as it takes top spot by market capitalisation — Tech giant SoftBank …
More: Kyodo News, Yahoo Finance, and Forbes Middle East
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A — Data is the oil of the AI boom—and the startup Mecka AI hopes to tap the vast reservoir of hand gestures, walking gaits, and immense collection …
X: @joshavata
| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
Box has created 13 AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow from 2,900 staff at the start of 2026 to 3,000+ by early 2027 — Box, a Silicon Valley software maker, expects to have more employees, not fewer, as it hires A.I. architects, A.I. solutions managers and other new A.I.-related positions.Sponsor Posts
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