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June 5, 2026, 8:05 AM
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Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations  —  Arrangement comes as AI lab is locked in legal battle with Pentagon over Claude model
Anthropic:
Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says Claude has authored 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase  —  Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.  —  For most of AI's history, humans drove every step in its development cycle.
Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks  —  The $1 trillion startup warns that AI models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention
Wired:
Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased “NameTag” face-recognition system for its AI smart glasses over multiple Meta AI app updates in 2026  —  Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta's smart glasses platform.
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Apple-funded study: the App Store had $1.4T in billings and sales globally in 2025; apps with consumer AI features saw 4x more billings growth than other apps  —  Apple shares update on 2025 App Store success  —  “Developers are the heartbeat of the App Store, and this year's incredible milestone …
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware:
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is “growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time”  —  Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm's latest data.
OpenAI:
OpenAI updates ChatGPT's memory with a “more capable and compute-efficient” architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers  —  Improving memory synthesis in ChatGPT to optimize for freshness, continuity and relevance.  —  Loading...
Isabelle Lee / Bloomberg:
S&P Dow Jones rejects proposals to expedite S&P 500 eligibility for mega-cap IPOs such as SpaceX's; companies remain ineligible until one year after their IPOs  —  S&P Dow Jones Indices will keep its existing eligibility requirements for the S&P 500, rejecting proposals …
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / New York Times:
Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400+ school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid “teen ambassadors”, Snap sent school-hour alerts  —  Internal documents show how tech giants grabbed children's attention throughout the day, a strategy that schools say has undermined education.
Reuters:
China's securities regulator tightened oversight of the country's ~$3.4T private fund industry, and said it would encourage tech-focused VC investments  —  China on Friday tightened oversight of the country's 23 trillion yuan ($3.40 trillion) private fund industry, in a bid to reduce financial risks …
CJ Haddad / CNBC:
Supabase, which provides backend tools for building AI apps, raised a $500M Series F led by GIC at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B in October 2025  —  Vibe coding needs infrastructure.  Supabase is trying to provide it.  —  The startup, which makes back-end tools …
John Ainger / Bloomberg:
In a letter to Utah Senate President, Kevin O'Leary says he will cut a 40,000-acre AI data center project in Utah by roughly half, after backlash from lawmakers  —  A proposed Utah data center that would have been almost three times the size of Manhattan will be drastically scaled back after pressure from lawmakers.
Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company 20 years ago, on Zuckerberg's “unfair” reputation, AI agents' capabilities, more  —  When Naomi Gleit joined Meta nearly 20 years ago, she was the firm's 29th employee.
Michael Considine / CNBC:
OpenAI confirms it will comply with President Trump's EO that asks AI companies to allow the US government to assess their models' capabilities before release  —  OpenAI has confirmed it will comply with Donald Trump's executive order that asks AI companies to allow the federal government …
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Bari Weiss has repeatedly asked CBS journalists to find links between Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood

Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour says she plans to leave in June 2027, after 43 years with the network; her PBS show ends in December

CNN:
Skydance extends Jon Stewart's contract to host Comedy Central's The Daily Show through December 2028, keeping him on through the next presidential election

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NOTUS:
Sources: US officials have held talks with AI companies about the government acquiring shares; Sam Altman first pitched the concept directly to Trump in 2025
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Poke, which lets users access AI agents via text message, becomes the first AI agent approved for Apple's Messages for Business platform
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim and customize dedicated Search profiles to aggregate their content from multiple platforms

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Tom Dotan / Newcomer:
Founders Fund launches a TV-style game show featuring A-list founders and investors, including Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey, playing a game of Mafia
Politico:
Two House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plans
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's account deactivations lack due process, violations are flagged without clarity, and there's little support for appeals
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source
Nivedita Balu / Reuters:
Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startups
John Kruzel / Reuters:
SCOTUS sides with the FCC in its clash with wireless carriers, upholding the agency's in-house system for levying fines for regulatory violations
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