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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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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.| 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.
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| 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 …
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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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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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.| Simon Lock / TBIJ: |
Wise confirms it is under investigation by Belgian prosecutors over suspicions its accounts were used for money laundering involving €500M in transactions — Help change the world by becoming a Bureau Insider — Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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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 …
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