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June 6, 2026, 12:10 PM

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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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …

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