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June 6, 2026, 7:15 AM
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Bloomberg:
Filing: Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920M per month for access to Nvidia chips as part of a cloud-services deal that runs through mid-2029  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google has agreed to pay Elon Musk's SpaceX $920 million a month for computing power as part of a cloud services deal that runs through mid-2029 …
Bloomberg:
President Trump says he is weighing proposals for US government to hold equity stakes in leading AI labs, and will soon discuss the idea with their executives  —  President Donald Trump expressed interest in the US government holding equity stakes in leading artificial intelligence developers …
CNBC:
Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the “Public Wealth Fund” that OpenAI outlined earlier  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the White House are in ongoing talks about a possible government stake in the artificial intelligence company, CNBC confirmed on Friday.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Kalshi and Polymarket sponsored X posts promoting viral LA mayoral election fraud conspiracy theories; Kalshi says it asked its paid influencers to remove posts  —  THE SCOOP  —  Kalshi on Friday asked some of its paid political influencers to remove X posts that sowed doubt about the integrity …
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Inside the Trump admin's push to integrate AI into the healthcare system, including an FDA regulatory fast track for digital health tech like AI chatbots  —  The administration is laying the groundwork for chatbots that can diagnose illness and prescribe medicine, but physicians say AI can introduce more problems.
Financial Times:
Sources: Meta explores a stock offering to raise tens of billions to fund AI capital expenditures, following Google's record $85B share deal; META drops 5%+  —  Facebook parent could sell tens of billions of dollars in new stock as it seeks to finance AI infrastructure
Ramsay Hodgson / Financial Times:
Paris-listed Teleperformance, the world's largest customer service company, has become one of Europe's most shorted stocks, as hedge funds bet on AI disruption  —  Outsourcing companies hit as investors see ‘clean’ disruption risk  —  Hedge funds are betting against the shares and debt …
More: Bloomberg
Ami Yamada / Nikkei Asia:
Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of $124M, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to reduce small listings  —  TOKYO — Funding in Japan for the earliest-stage startups tumbled 42% last year to a 10-year low of 19.9 billion yen ($124 million) …
More: VCWire
Akash Girimath / Decrypt:
Privacy token Zcash plunges after the disclosure of a 2022 vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed undetectable ZEC counterfeiting  —  Zcash plunged double digits overnight after developers disclosed a critical vulnerability in the protocol's Orchard shielded pool …
Reuters:
Trump signs a national security memorandum seeking to “accelerate the use of AI across intelligence and warfighting domains in line with American values”  —  The White House said on Friday it would accelerate the development and use of AI for national security applications …

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From Mediagazer

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

More News

Noel Randewich / Reuters:
US-traded chipmakers plunged on Friday, after Broadcom missed expectations; Nvidia fell 6.19%, Micron fell 13.25%, AMD fell 10.86%, and Broadcom 7.92%
CNBC:
Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale
Grace Kay / The Information:
Sources say xAI used Claude models for distillation and training, including using personal accounts and the intermediary service Blackbox AI after being cut off

Earlier Picks

Wall Street Journal:
The largest US banks plan to launch a tokenized deposit network in 2027 to connect traditional payment rails with the infrastructure that digital assets run on
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
The NY State legislature passes a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law
Financial Times:
Sources: SpaceX prepares the largest retail allocation ever attempted in a megacap IPO, seeking to reserve as much as 25% of its $75B float for retail investors
Aaron Holmes / The Information:
In an internal message, Satya Nadella rebuked an internal memo that said Microsoft needs to “make people addicted” to its new AI agent product called Scout
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect at WWDC 2026: an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, a slew of new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability and responsiveness, and more
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