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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: @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com, @karlbode.com, @josephcox, @nslayton, and @nslayton
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in preparing to go public this year — The artificial intelligence company has seen explosive growth over the last year thanks largely to new technology that can automatically write computer code.
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| 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.
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Forums: r/linux, r/pcgaming, r/pcmasterrace, r/hardware, r/hardware, r/nvidia, and r/intelstock
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, featuring an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fall — Microsoft has a new flagship Surface, and it's got Nvidia inside. … But today, it's trying again.
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X: @timsweeneyepic, @zacbowden, @ben_a_adams, @tomwarren, @bdsams, @bdsams, @surface, @tomwarren, @pavandavuluri, @tomwarren, @ryanshrout, @kellabyte, and @pavandavuluri. LinkedIn: Abhay Dalvi. Bluesky: @emilprotalinski
Forums: r/gadgets, r/windowscentral, r/Surface, and r/Surface
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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 … | Jeffrey Kampman / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs, built on its Xe3P architecture and using LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM, calling them “built for agentic AI” — Unusual memory choice brings lots of AI data closer to the chip for efficiency — At Computex 2026 …
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X: @alex_intel_ and @intel
Forums: r/intelstock and r/hardware
| 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 the top AI companies — Artificial intelligence will almost certainly be the most transformational technology in the history of the world.
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Bluesky: @melissaryan, @jeremyschulman, and @moskov.goodventures.org
Forums: r/DemocraticSocialism, r/stupidpol, and r/economy
| 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
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| Charles Capel / Bloomberg: |
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia unveils DGX Station for Windows, a desktop PC powered by a GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748 GB 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, HotHardware, AIwire, GamesBeat, and ServeTheHome
X: @mweinbach, @michaelarnaldi, @gnukeith, and @chrisschmitz
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Strava is adding a $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.
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Nvidia unveils an open humanoid reference design built on Isaac GR00T and its Jetson Thor chip, combining a Unitree H2 Plus robot and Sharpa five-fingered hands — Nvidia (NVDA.O) plans to work with humanoid robot makers in the U.S., Europe and South Korea in addition to China's Unitree … | 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 … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
| Rohan Prabhu / Step Security Blog: |
Researchers find several packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace shipped malware targeting credentials for GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, 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, TechRadar, Aikido Security's Blog, Socket, Cyber Security News, and wiz.io
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, r/cybersecurity, and Slashdot
| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
Box says it created 13 new AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow its staff to 3,000 by early 2027, up from 2,900 — 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.| 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.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning AI model developed by Microsoft AI, and lots of Windows developer features — Build will include a Copilot super app, a new reasoning AI model, and lots of Windows improvements.| 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
| 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.
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X: @defiyst, @thestalwart, and @negligible_cap
| 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: Forbes Middle East, Benzinga, Crypto Briefing, and Yahoo Finance
| Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a $6M seed in 2025 — Sekai has raised a $20 million Series A to grow a platform for creating mini apps through text prompts, founder and CEO Lucky Zhang exclusively tells Axios.| @theallinpod: |
Q&A with Bill Gurley on Anthropic employees believing “they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species”, and more — Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thinks It's Building God @Jason: It is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God. @bgurley: “Anthropic is a mystery to me. I've never, ever seen a company that is both leading their field and the most [video]
| Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: |
Internal documents: Chinese company Geedge is working to build AI tools to predict those who could pose a political risk, but US chip controls hampered its work — New research examines how a Chinese company struggled to develop its predictive surveillance technology while U.S. restrictions were in place.Sponsor Posts
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