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| 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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| The Economist: |
SpaceX's, Anthropic's, and OpenAI's IPOs could add up to $4T to US stock market value within months, fueling concerns they could trigger more capital-raising — They promise to be the biggest stockmarket debuts ever. On June 11th SpaceX reportedly hopes to raise $75bn from investors … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Alphabet is raising $80B in equity offerings, including a $10B investment deal with Berkshire, to fund AI spending, in one of the largest equity deals ever — Google parent Alphabet Inc. is raising $80 billion in equity offerings, including an investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway Inc. …
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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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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
HPE reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to $10.7B, above $9.74B est., Server revenue up 33%, forecasts revenue for FY26 and FY27 above est.; HPE jumps 30%+ pre-market — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. shares soared in extended trading after the company gave an outlook for annual sales that topped estimates … | 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese procurement records: at least seven Chinese universities that support China's military and defense industry are seeking access to Nvidia's H200 chips — At least seven Chinese universities that support the country's armed forces and defense industry are seeking access to Nvidia Corp.'s H200 chips …
More: Tom's Hardware, Seoul Economic Daily, Reuters, and New York Times
| The Information: |
Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; a source says 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, Tech.eu, Constellation Research, and CMSWire.com
| Arriana McLymore / Reuters: |
Amazon schedules Prime Day for June 23 to June 26, shifting the four-day sales event from its traditional July slot to avoid conflicts with the FIFA World Cup — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) will host its annual Prime Day sales event from June 23 to June 26 after launching the event in July for the past five years …
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Valve, which PrivCo estimates generated $5.2B in revenue and $1.5B in net income in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power — Lawsuits in the US and the UK allege the company's Steam store is abusing its market power. Valve disagrees.
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
GitHub Copilot's new pricing model takes effect; many GitHub users noted sticker shock, with some saying a few hours of AI usage ate big chunks of monthly caps — In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from request-based billing to a usage-based model for its AI-powered Copilot service.
More: Livemint, Tech Times, and The Register
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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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| Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: |
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter MoE open model; Artificial Analysis says it is the smartest open US model, but trails Chinese model Kimi K2.6 — It has roughly 550 billion total parameters, with about 55 billion active at any given time.| 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 Economic Times, Pulse 2.0, and The Next Web
| Wired: |
Sources: after Trump nixed an AI EO on May 21, US officials are navigating internal strife and chaotic talks; early model access was the most contentious issue — Donald Trump killed an executive order to regulate AI. Now, administration officials and AI executives are trying to figure … | Pew Research Center: |
Analysis: 22 of 24 US executive agencies saw a YoY increase in their average X account engagement during the first year of Trump's second term; @DOGE dominated — Federal agencies are getting far more audience engagement on X (formerly Twitter) in the second Trump administration … | OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users — OpenAI today released a new report, The Next Era of Knowledge Work, showing how Codex is no longer just a coding tool.| CNBC: |
An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI's massive Stargate data center project in Saline, Michigan, coding models being the biggest driver of AI demand, and more — Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC exclusive interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on CNBC's “Power Lunch” (M-F, 2PM-3PM ET) today, Monday, June 1.
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| Stephen Foley / Financial Times: |
AI will significantly disrupt IT consultancies as AI labs build their own advisory arms and execs expect more outcome-based pricing over hourly billing models — Accenture made a fortune from previous tech revolutions but investors think AI could kill it, not make it stronger.| Nectar Gan / Bloomberg: |
China adds data and algorithms to its trade secret rules, as part of Beijing's efforts to prevent tech leaks amid intensifying strategic competition with the US — China expanded its trade secret rules to include data and algorithms, as Beijing steps up efforts to prevent technology leaks …
More: China Money Network
| Max Cherney / Reuters: |
Computex 2026: ARM CEO Rene Haas says Oracle and ByteDance are among the customers of the company's new AGI CPU data center chips — Chinese tech company ByteDance and U.S. data centre firm Oracle (ORCL.N) are among the customers of Arm's (O9Ty.F) AI data centre chips, the head of the chip designing firm said on Tuesday.
More: Reuters, Benzinga, Bloomberg, and The Next Web
| Reuters: |
Zhipu AI says it plans to apply for a listing in Shanghai; Zhipu's Hong Kong-listed shares are up over 10x since its January IPO, giving it an $83B market cap — Knowledge Atlas Technology JSC (2513.HK), also known as Zhipu AI, intends to apply for a domestic listing on the Shanghai Stock …
More: South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, and Reuters
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says it has not donated to any super PACs and does not have an employee-funded PAC, and that Greg Brockman's support for Leading the Future is “personal” — AI is going to be one of the most powerful technologies people have ever built. The decisions being made now about …
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| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Crunchbase: San Francisco startups hit a record of 1,404 seed deals in 2025; the number of NYC seed deals has dropped over the past three years, to 666 in 2025 — 'You can't ignore San Francisco right now,' says one New York venture capitalist — New York venture firms are broadening their geographic reach.Sponsor Posts
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