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Sources: US officials discussed the government taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-5 AI

A research team that includes Huawei says it successfully used Huawei's Ascend 910C chips for DeepSeek V4 Pro model's post-training, amid increased US sanctions (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-5

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says the agency will review E-Rate, a $3B annual program subsidizing school and library internet access, amid kids' screen time concerns (thehill.com)
2026-6-5

Tired of trackers & pop-ups? This $25 AdGuard DNS setup can filter them out (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-5

China's securities regulator tightened oversight of the country's ~$3.4T private fund industry, and said it would encourage tech-focused VC investments (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-5 China

Sources say a months-long dispute between the White House and Anthropic is showing signs of easing across the US government as the company prepares for its IPO (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-5 IPO

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker plans to temporarily halt tax breaks for data centers from July 1, calling on state lawmakers to create a development framework (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-6-5 Tax

Cisco warns of unpatched SD-WAN zero-day exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-5 Cisco

India-based Innefu Labs, which builds AI-powered software for national defense and enterprise security infrastructure, raised a $30M Series B led by Panthera (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-6-5 India AI

University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans (www.bbc.com)
2026-6-5 AI

OpenAI confirms it will follow President Trump's EO that asks AI companies to allow the US government to assess their models' capabilities before release (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-5 Trump AI

Apple-funded study: the App Store had $1.4T in billings and sales globally in 2025; apps with consumer-facing AI saw 4x more billings growth than other apps (9to5mac.com)
2026-6-5 AI Apple

Used Waymo Robotaxi Batteries Become Backup Storage For Power Grids (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-5

Starlink says that it has 12M+ “active customers” across 160+ countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 (x.com)
2026-6-5

Sources: data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars from PE firms including Brookfield and KKR at a $50B+ valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-5

Bees Can Use Tools To Solve Problems, Study Finds (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-5

Elon Musk petitioned the FTC in May to end its 2022 order restricting Twitter's data use, claiming Twitter no longer exists as X merged with xAI and then SpaceX (arstechnica.com)
2026-6-5 Twitter Elon Musk SpaceX

S&P Dow Jones rejected proposals to expedite S&P 500 eligibility for mega-cap IPOs such as SpaceX, which remains ineligible until one year after going public (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-5 IPO Dow Jones SpaceX

Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased “NameTag” face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year (www.wired.com)
2026-6-5 AI

An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company 20 years ago, on Zuckerberg's “unfair” reputation, AI agents' capabilities, more (www.bbc.com)
2026-6-5 Interview AI Zuckerberg

Denver-based Scotch, which makes AI-powered payments tools for liquor retailers, raised a $20M Series A from VMG Partners, following a $10M seed in 2024 (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-6-5 AI

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is “growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time” (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-6-5

Anthropic calls for top AI labs to weigh slowing or temporarily pausing development, suggesting that self-improving AI systems may soon pose societal risks (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-5 AI

Sources: US officials have held talks with AI companies about the government acquiring shares; Sam Altman first pitched the concept directly to Trump in 2025 (www.notus.org)
2026-6-5 Trump AI

Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk (slashdot.org)
2026-6-5 AI

Quantinuum closed up 0.63% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, with a market value of $15.7B, after raising $1.68B in an upsized IPO (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-5 IPO

OpenAI updates ChatGPT memory with a “more capable and compute-efficient” architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers (openai.com)
2026-6-5

Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400 school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid “teen ambassadors”, Snap sent school-hour alerts (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-5

Hola Browser for Windows compromised to deliver cryptominer (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-5 Browser

Brave Software releases Origin for a paid, bloat-free browsing experience (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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