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Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI says it has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting US debates over tariffs and data centers — OpenAI has banned Ch

Juby Babu / Reuters: Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to 19.18B, vs. 19.1B est., and expects to raise ~$40B through a combination of debt and equity financing in FY 2027 — Oracle (ORCL.N) reported

Jay Peters / The Verge: Product head Alex Benzer says Bluesky plans to add “communities” this year, smaller spaces to “go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff” — They're set t

Financial Times: Sources: Germany's Neura Robotics, which builds AI-powered humanoid robots, raised 1.4B from Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, and others at a ~7B valuation — Crypto group Tether, Ama

Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: Microsoft is restricting employees from using Claude Fable 5 because of Anthropic's new 30-day data retention requirements — Microsoft's legal teams are evaluating Ant

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft's Xbox division is planning major layoffs next month and significant budget cuts for marketing and some other areas — Asha Sharma's first major cuts will

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI is considering drastically lowering its price for tokens in anticipation of similar cuts the company expects at Anthropic — The company might lower prices for toke

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia — OpenAI i

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is expected to go public “within the next year” and OpenAI plans a tender offer “very soon” at a $687.69 share price —

Bloomberg: Sources: Sea's Shopee is cutting hundreds of developer jobs globally; the reductions started this week and amount to about 8% of Shopee's developer workforce — Sea Ltd.'s Shopee is cutting

Financial Times: Sources: the ECB temporarily barred Revolut from releasing new products in the European Economic Area last summer until the company had rectified “deficiencies” — Europe's most valuab

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Trump administration officials have told CAISI to halt publication of its model assessments while an EO President Trump signed last week is implemented

Shinhye Kang / Bloomberg: South Korean regulators fined Coupang $409M for a data leak in 2025 that exposed ~33.7M accounts and escalated into a diplomatic conflict with the US — A South Korean regulat

Reuters: Survey: 53% of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work; Democrats are more likely than Republicans to worry about AI's impact on jobs — Half of Americans fear that

Kara Carlson / Bloomberg: Tesla has just 59 vehicles in its robotaxi fleet and is limited to three Texas cities after almost a year, nowhere close to Elon Musk's big promises — The carmaker has just 5

A.J. Vicens / Reuters: The FBI seizes 13 domains allegedly tied to fake consulting firms that sought information from US government and military employees for suspected Chinese agents — Federal author

Kristin Robinson / Billboard: WMG acquires AI attribution startup Sureel, as it seeks to track when its songs and recordings are used in the training of AI models or in AI-generated works — The deal i

The Verge: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty warn of an “Xbox reset” in the next 100 days, citing challenges like annual revenue down ~$500M over the past five years — The company has been prep

Abner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having 1:1 conversations; it discontinued its previous Messages feature in 2019 — After testing got underw

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations — When two A

Reuters: Analysis: Trump and his sons profited 2.3B+ from four crypto ventures including TRUMP since January 2025, while other investors in those projects lost ~2.3B — Risking little of their own mone

Anthropic: Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 uses conservative safety classifiers that trigger a fallback to Claude Opus 4.8 in <5% of sessions, in areas like cybersecurity — Today we're launching Claude

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Anthropic says Fable 5 has invisible safeguards that use prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT to limit its effectiveness for building frontier LLMs — Key Poin

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic says Fable 5 is available on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans through June 22, after which using Fable 5 will require usage credits — Anthropic is

Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: Anthropic says red team tests of Fable 5 found no universal jailbreaks, and it will keep first- and third-party user traffic on Mythos-class models for 30 days — Claude

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple says 79% of all iPhones and 86% of iPhones released in the past four years were running iOS 26 as of June 7, vs. 82% and 88% for iOS 18 before WWDC 2025 — Apple has sh

Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: Claude Fable 5 hands-on: impressive results working on complex projects, like building an interactive isochrone map or a data analysis tool in just 9.5 hours — Claude

Ella Feldman / Bloomberg: CoreWeave founders have sold $2.3B in stock since the company's lockup period expired in August after a March 2025 IPO, reducing their combined holdings by ~25% — CoreWeave I

New York Times: Docs: ~34K Instagram accounts, including Obama's White House account, were affected in the breach tied to Meta's AI chatbot; attackers changed 3,500+ usernames — The flaw, which Meta s

Davis Giangiulio / CNBC: Edge Markets, which provides banking tools for gambling and prediction markets, including real-time payments on Kalshi, raised a $29.2M Series A led by CoinFund — As predictio

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: In an interview, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says that the company is planning its IPO for 2028, regardless of how well the IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI go — Perplexity is p

Wall Street Journal: Kalshi plans to require users seeking to make bets in some markets linked to material nonpublic information to submit an online form disclosing where they work — The popular predi

Greg Kim / The Seattle Times: Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers and study their impact; Mayor Katie Wilson is expected to sign the bill — Amid a g

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: ServiceNow says attackers exploited a flaw, patched on June 5, that let unauthenticated users query data from customer instances, but gives few other details — Serv

Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: Canadian payments company Nuvei is in advanced talks to acquire NYC-based cross-border payments company Payoneer for ~$2.7B and could sign within days — Canadian paymen

Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank's talks with creditors to raise 6B through a margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake have stalled, weeks after it cut its target from 10B — SoftBank Group Corp.'s talks wit

Akash Sriram / Reuters: Sources: SpaceX aims to launch orbital AI computing tests by late 2027 and has requested permission from regulators to launch up to 1M data-center satellites — SpaceX executive

Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: Stepful, an AI-powered online training platform for healthcare workers, raised a 55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to 105M — Oak HC/FT Medica

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Super Micro aims to raise 7B through equity and equity-linked financing transactions to fund component purchases tied to AI orders; SMCI drops 6%+ after hours — Super

Michael Peel / Financial Times: The EU warns that AI-boosted chemical synthesis is helping European drug gangs develop new “designer” drug precursors that evade existing product blacklists — EU agency

Michael Kan / PCMag: The US FCC waives its deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon is still required to launch all 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2029 — The Federal Comm

CNBC: A federal judge blocks President Trump's policy imposing a $100,000 fee for employer H-1B visa applications — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most

Engadget: A live blog of WWDC 2026, where Apple is expected to announce an overhauled Siri, a Siri app, new AI capabilities, OS updates focused on reliability, and more — We're covering the news live

Apple on YouTube: A livestream of Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote — All systems glow for WWDC26. This year's week of technology, community, and creativity with developers across the world kicks off June 8 a

Yusuf Khan / Wall Street Journal: A look at Ireland's Bring Your Own Power policy, which requires new data centers to have their own power plants on site or sources of energy produced nearby — The tin

Mia Sato / The Verge: Amazon expands its print-on-demand features to AI-generated designs created using Alexa for Shopping for products like T-shirts, water bottles, and hoodies — The retailer's expa