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Financial Times:
Anthropic says it will extend Project Glasswing to organizations in 15+ countries, sources say giving Mythos access to Five Eyes, NATO, Samsung, SK, and others  —  About 150 organisations will be given advanced cyber security model following requests from around the world
Bloomberg:
Alphabet is raising $80B through equity offerings, including a $10B investment deal with Berkshire, to fund AI spending, in one of the largest equity deals ever  —  Google parent Alphabet Inc. is raising $80 billion in equity offerings, including an investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway Inc. …
Sophia Cai / Politico:
President Trump signs a scaled-back AI EO that seeks to address AI's cybersecurity threats; sources say it imposes less scrutiny on AI than the scrapped version  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a scaled-back executive order that seeks to address the cybersecurity threats …
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
GitHub Copilot's new pricing model takes effect; many users report sticker shock, with some saying a few hours of AI usage eats big chunks of their 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.
The Economist:
SpaceX's, Anthropic's, and OpenAI's IPOs could add up to $4T in US stock market value within months, fueling concerns they could herald more capital raising  —  They promise to be the biggest stockmarket debuts ever.  On June 11th SpaceX reportedly hopes to raise $75bn from investors …
OpenAI:
OpenAI releases a new knowledge work report: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers represent ~20% of Codex users  —  OpenAI today released a new report, The Next Era of Knowledge Work, showing how Codex is no longer just a coding tool.
Bloomberg:
A profile of Valve, which PrivCo estimates generated $5.2B in revenue and $1.5B in net income in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power  —  Lawsuits in the US and the UK allege the company's Steam store is abusing its market power.  Valve disagrees.
Arriana McLymore / Reuters:
Amazon schedules Prime Day for June 23 to June 26, shifting the four-day sales event from July to avoid the end of the FIFA World Cup and US Independence Day  —  Amazon.com (AMZN.O) will host its annual Prime Day sales event from June 23 to June 26 after launching the event in July for the past five years …
Tim Culpan / Culpium:
Sources: Intel faces a supply shortage of its Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake laptop chips built on its 18A process node; Intel says there are “some” shortages  —  [Exclusive] A shortage of processors at its comeback node has clients worried about stability of future supply.
More: Engadget
CNBC:
Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's Stargate data center project in Saline, Michigan, coding models as the biggest AI demand driver, falling token prices, 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.
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
SK Hynix Chair Chey Tae-won says the company plans to double its memory chip capacity over five years, responding to a global shortage that could last till 2030  —  SK Hynix Inc. plans to double its memory chip capacity over the coming half-decade, a major expansion that should help ease …
Andrew Martin / Bloomberg:
Analysis: Palo Alto Networks' shareholders have voted to reject pay packages for its top executives seven times since 2015, more than any other S&P 500 company  —  A majority of Palo Alto Networks investors have voted against the cybersecurity company's executive pay seven times in 11 years.
Cassell Bryan-Low / Reuters:
Sources: the UK has begun using SpaceX's militarized satellite network Starshield, making it among the first countries outside the US to adopt the tech  —  Britain has begun using SpaceX's militarised satellite network Starshield, according to two people familiar with the matter …
Forums: r/unitedkingdom
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
CFTC chair Michael Selig says Gemini was the victim of Biden-era political targeting, a week after the CFTC motioned to vacate a 2025 order against the exchange  —  The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it's correcting a flawed enforcement action against Gemini Space Station …
Stephen Foley / Financial Times:
AI will significantly disrupt IT consultancies as AI labs build advisory arms and executives expect more projects priced based on outcome instead of by the hour  —  Accenture made a fortune from previous tech revolutions but investors think AI could kill it, not make it stronger.
New York Times:
An analysis of 600+ Elon Musk claims over 15 years finds he met deadlines 19% of the time; he achieved 75% of his 2015 goals on time, but under 50% of 2020 ones  —  next month By the end of this year another 9 months or so end of month in 3 weeks this year in 2026 in April in <5 years on Jan 17 …
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Internal post: Guy Rosen, Meta's chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta's election integrity work, is departing in the coming months  —  Guy Rosen, Meta Platforms Inc.'s chief information security officer who previously oversaw the company's election integrity work, is departing in the coming months.
More: CTech
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Sources: Google, Anthropic, and Meta have hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy in recent months 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.

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Tyler Falk / Current:
NPR is overhauling its dues model so that fees are based on news stations' broadcast reach rather than donor revenues and projects dues will fall 15% to 18%

Amos Barshad / Columbia Journalism Review:
Some right-wing news influencers are using Meta's Ray-Ban sunglasses as a recording tool that unwilling subjects may not be aware of, leading to tension

Scott Agness / Fieldhouse Files with Scott Agness:
Longtime NBA reporter Scott Agness says WNBA team The Indiana Fever revoked his credentials following his tweet about the injury status of star Caitlin Clark

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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”
Simon Lock / TBIJ:
Wise confirms it is under investigation by Belgian prosecutors over suspicions criminals used its accounts for money laundering involving ~€500M in transactions

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Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
HPE reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to $10.7B, above $9.74B est., Server revenue up 33% YoY, and forecasts revenue for FY26 and FY27 above est.; HPE jumps 30%+
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
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
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
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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
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, featuring an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fall
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