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| 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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X: @darkwebinformer, @andymstone, @zachxbt, @quinnypig, @wongmjane, @andymstone, @oracles, @gergelyorosz, @cartidise, @gergelyorosz, @jonoringer, @osinttechnical, @darkrai, @doodlestein, @supbagholder, @gergelyorosz, @devahaz, @yacinemtb, @heaney555, @lowleveltweets, @sentdefender, @immasiddx, @bahrambiz, @weezerosint, @gergelyorosz, @heaney555, @todayyearsold, @gergelyorosz, @vitalikbuterin, @gergelyorosz, @suchenzang, @kornbuilds, @binhonglee, and @jason_koebler
Bluesky: @joemenn, @datnofact, @404media.co, @natanael, @karlbode.com, @josephcox, @golikehellmachine.com, @faineg, @lizharvey, @marygillis, @rahaeli, @joshuafoust.com, @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com, @lawprofblawg, @nslayton, and @nslayton. Threads: @karissabe. Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social
| 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 …
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X: @anthropicai, @danprimack, @dee_bosa, @patrick_oshag, @venturetwins, @hosseeb, @code_star, @kimmonismus, @netcapgirl, @edzitron, @kevinroose, @mtslive, @zck, @hkarthik, @kchoudhu, @quinnypig, @kylejeong, @auchenberg, @lizrhoffman, @hkarthik, @zck, @jimcramer, @tenobrus, @mikeisaac, and @tenobrus. LinkedIn: Hayden Field
Bluesky: @elizabethjacobs and @repcasar
Forums: r/VCX_Fundrise, r/Anthropic, and r/sanfrancisco
| 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. …
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| 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.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/PoliticalOptimism, r/technology, r/florida, and r/antiai
| 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 … | 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.
More: GitHub, Aikido Security's Blog, TechRadar, wiz.io, Ars Technica, and Socket
X: @jfrogsecurity, @socketsecurity, @mitsuhiko, @msftsecintel, and @socketsecurity. Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/programming, and Slashdot
| The Information: |
Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; source: 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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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer chip family it calls “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, made on TSMC 3 in partnership with MediaTek — Nvidia enters the consumer laptop realm. Nvidia enters the consumer laptop realm.
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Forums: r/apple, r/pcgaming, r/linux, r/LocalLLaMA, r/pcmasterrace, r/hardware, r/hardware, r/nvidia, and r/intelstock
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
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Forums: r/technology, r/wallstreetbets, and Slashdot
| 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 …
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| Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: |
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 … | 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.
More: Bloomberg, crypto.news, The Big Whale, Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoNinjas, and Watcher Guru
X: @defiyst, @thestalwart, and @negligible_cap
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
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.| 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 …
X: @thestalwart, @rahmbotrades, @polymarketmoney, and @citrini
| 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.
More: Tech Times and The Register
X: @paulomatew and @gxjo_dev
Forums: Hacker News, r/GithubCopilot, r/GithubCopilot, r/technology, r/GithubCopilot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 … | Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Chinese AI developer MiniMax debuts M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Claude Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 — Chinese AI developer MiniMax on Monday launched a new large language model called M3, saying the new model's coding capability approaches …
More: MiniMax, The Decoder, VentureBeat, WinBuzzer, Implicator.ai, and MarkTechPost
| 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 …
More: Bloomberg, Politico, Financial Times, DeviceSecurity.io, The Next Web, and CNBC
| 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 … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users of Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster at AI workloads than x86 chips — Nvidia Corp. said Anthropic PBC, OpenAI and SpaceX are among the first big users of its upcoming microprocessor … | 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.| Bernie Sanders / New York Times: |
Bernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates “must benefit humanity”, calling for a sovereign wealth fund that would hold ownership stakes in top US AI companies — Artificial intelligence will almost certainly be the most transformational technology in the history of the world.
More: Gizmodo, Mashable, The Washington Free Beacon, and Truthout
X: @sensanders, @jachiam0, @emostaque, @logandobson, @scaling01, @sensanders, @altryne, @rbmd1982, @mattbruenig, @ourrevolution, @kevintfrazier, @deanwball, @nateforutah, @richardhanania, @ranavain, @mattbruenig, @matthewstoller, and @janeaflegal
Bluesky: @moskov.goodventures.org, @jeremyschulman, and @melissaryan
| 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.
More: The Information, SiliconANGLE, The Tech Portal, The Next Web, and Benzinga
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Strava is adding an $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access and moving public profiles and fitness club listings behind authentication to combat AI scraping — AI companies have grown into data-hungry entities as their models require ever-larger datasets to train on.
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| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
Box has created 13 AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow from 2,900 staff at the start of 2026 to 3,000+ by early 2027 — Box, a Silicon Valley software maker, expects to have more employees, not fewer, as it hires A.I. architects, A.I. solutions managers and other new A.I.-related positions.Sponsor Posts
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