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Anthropic says it will extend Project Glasswing to organizations in 15+ countries, sources say giving Mythos access to Five Eyes, NATO, Samsung, SK, and others — About 150 organisations will be given advanced cyber security model following requests from around the world| Bloomberg: |
Alphabet is raising $80B through 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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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
GitHub Copilot's new pricing model takes effect; many users report sticker shock, with some saying a few hours of AI usage eats big chunks of their 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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| The Economist: |
SpaceX's, Anthropic's, and OpenAI's IPOs could add up to $4T in US stock market value within months, fueling concerns they could herald more capital raising — They promise to be the biggest stockmarket debuts ever. On June 11th SpaceX reportedly hopes to raise $75bn from investors …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases a new knowledge work report: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers represent ~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.| Arriana McLymore / Reuters: |
Amazon schedules Prime Day for June 23 to June 26, shifting the four-day sales event from July to avoid the end of the FIFA World Cup and US Independence Day — 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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| 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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| Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: |
Sixteen mathematicians publish the Leiden Declaration on AI and Mathematics to warn of potential threats to the field, such as around accuracy and reliability — A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline.
More: Leiden Declaration, Leiden University, New Yorker, and Scientific American
| 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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| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including about nutrition, weightlifting, and anxiety — The changes, after Meta's legal losses in two child safety cases, are aimed at limiting harmful content shown to teenagers on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.
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| CNBC: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's Stargate data center project in Saline, Michigan, coding models as the biggest AI demand driver, falling token prices, 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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| 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 … | 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.| 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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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix Chair Chey Tae-won says the company plans to double its memory chip capacity over five years, responding to a global shortage that could last till 2030 — SK Hynix Inc. plans to double its memory chip capacity over the coming half-decade, a major expansion that should help ease …
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| Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Palo Alto Networks' shareholders have voted to reject pay packages for its top executives seven times since 2015, more than any other S&P 500 company — A majority of Palo Alto Networks investors have voted against the cybersecurity company's executive pay seven times in 11 years.
More: Bloomberg Law
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X launches a React with Video feature on iOS that targets creators and is being pitched as a multimedia alternative to the Repost and Quote Post functions — On Tuesday, Elon Musk-owned social network X launched a new feature, “React with Video,” that aims to expand the types of commentary on the platform.| Cassell Bryan-Low / Reuters: |
Sources: the UK has begun using SpaceX's militarized satellite network Starshield, making it among the first countries outside the US to adopt the tech — Britain has begun using SpaceX's militarised satellite network Starshield, according to two people familiar with the matter …
Forums: r/unitedkingdom
| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
CFTC chair Michael Selig says Gemini was the victim of Biden-era political targeting, a week after the CFTC motioned to vacate a 2025 order against the exchange — The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it's correcting a flawed enforcement action against Gemini Space Station … | Tim Culpan / Culpium: |
Sources: Intel faces a supply shortage of its Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake laptop chips built on its 18A process node; Intel says there are “some” shortages — [Exclusive] A shortage of processors at its comeback node has clients worried about stability of future supply.| Stephen Foley / Financial Times: |
AI will significantly disrupt IT consultancies as AI labs build advisory arms and executives expect more projects priced based on outcome instead of by the hour — Accenture made a fortune from previous tech revolutions but investors think AI could kill it, not make it stronger.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: Google, Anthropic, and Meta have hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy in recent months as they expand machine consciousness research — Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Meta study whether AI could become conscious — and what follows for humans if it does.Sponsor Posts
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