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June 2, 2026, 1:30 AM
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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 … | 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Alphabet is raising $80B in equity offerings, including a $10B investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway, to help raise money for its AI spending plans — Google parent Alphabet Inc. is raising $80 billion in equity offerings, including an investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway Inc. … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
HPE reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to $10.7B, vs. $9.74B est., Server revenue up 33%, forecasts revenue for FY26 and FY27 above est.; HPE jumps 30%+ after hours — 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.| 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.| Bloomberg: |
Procurement records show at least seven Chinese universities that support the country'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 … | The Information: |
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Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter MoE open model; Artificial Analysis: it's the smartest open US model but trails the Chinese model Kimi K2.6 — It has roughly 550 billion total parameters, with about 55 billion active at any given time. On the Artificial Analysis … | 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 … | Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
GitHub Copilot's new pricing model went into effect today, and many 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.| Stephen Foley / Financial Times:NEW |
AI will significantly disrupt IT consultancies as AI labs build their own advisory arms and execs expect more outcome-based pricing over hourly billing models — 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 DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy 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.| 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 how it is governed … | 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.| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Crunchbase: SF startups hit a record of 1,404 seed deals in 2025, while 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...| Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg: |
IBM shares jump 7.6% after a nearly six-month old video of President Trump praising CEO Arvind Krishna recirculated on X; IBM was already up ~40% over two weeks — A nearly six-month old video of Donald Trump praising International Business Machines Corp.'s CEO sent the shares surging … | Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220+ are “fallen unicorns” — Five years ago, venture capitalists were pouring money into American startups selling everything from lingerie subscriptions … | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: Tencent, which has fallen behind domestic rivals in AI models, plans to test an AI agent for WeChat with a small group of users before a phased rollout — Maker of WeChat has fallen behind domestic rivals in artificial intelligence models — Tencent is moving closer to launching … | CoinDesk: |
SEC filing: Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 for ~$2.5M, at an average net price of $77,135 per coin, its first disclosed bitcoin disposal — The 8-K filing Monday says proceeds from the May 26-31 sale, executed at an average price of $77,135 a coin, will fund distributions on Strategy's preferred stock.| 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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Binance launches trading for 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for non-US users, with zero commissions and fractional share purchases, as part of its “super app” push — Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Monday that its users will be able to trade more than 7,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Source: Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth ~$5B; Salesforce first invested about $50M in an early 2023 round and has continually invested in rounds since — Salesforce Inc. has a stake in Anthropic PBC worth about $5 billion after repeatedly investing in the ascendant AI startup.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Copilot “super app”, a new reasoning model developed by Microsoft AI, and Windows improvements for developers — Build will include a Copilot super app, a new reasoning AI model, and lots of Windows improvements.
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Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.
Identity reports In Zoho Directory: Take smarter security decisions with identity insights — What are identity reports in Zoho Directory and why do they matter? In fast-moving organizations … 
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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