Tech

Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase is authored by Claude (www.anthropic.com)
2026-6-5

Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source (blog.cloudflare.com)
2026-6-5

Apple Is Bringing Age Verification To Texas This Week (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-6-5 Apple Texas

Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months (www.theblock.co)
2026-6-5 Bitcoin mortgage Coinbase

Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startups (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-5 Startup AI Canada

Honeycomb, which offers an AI-powered insurance platform for multi-unit residential properties, raised $40M led by Zeev, bringing its total funding to $95M (fortune.com)
2026-6-5 AI Insurance

New IronWorm malware hits 36 packages in npm supply-chain attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-5

SCOTUS sides with the FCC in its clash with wireless carriers, upholding the agency's in-house system for levying fines for regulatory violations (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-5

Google Ordered To Put Clearer Links In AI Search, Let UK Publishers Opt Out (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-5 Google AI

Robinhood plans to route some 2026 soccer World Cup bets to Rothera, shifting away from Kalshi as it seeks to diversify its prediction markets providers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-5

10 Characters Who Never Forgot a Grudge (listverse.com)
2026-6-5

Microsoft blames unexpected Windows driver updates on caching issue (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-5 Microsoft

Hackers Are After the Gaps in Your Vulnerability Program: Here's Their Playbook (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-5

Public First: just 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, including the UK, Japan, and Canada (www.ft.com)
2026-6-4 Japan U.S. Canada

Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-4 Startup Robot

London- and NY-based Airspeed, which aims to use AI agents to replace sales software like traditional CRM dashboards, raised a $20M Series A led by DN Capital (pathfounders.com)
2026-6-4 AI London CRM

Police dismantles fake ID marketplace used by migrant smugglers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-4 Immigration

Sam Altman says he has no plans to put money into the 2026 US midterms; OpenAI is seeking to distance itself from Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future PAC (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-4

Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's competitive position, MAI models, OpenAI, the software business, GitHub Copilot, Project Solara, data centers, and more (stratechery.com)
2026-6-4 Microsoft GitHub

Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos (www.wired.com)
2026-6-4 AI Intelligence Jeff Bezos

Revolut co-founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko plans to step down in July, replaced by executive Donato Lucia; Yatsenko joined as Revolut's first employee (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-4

Get GPT, Claude, Gemini, image tools, & more in one $60 lifetime app— only through 6/14 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-4

Cisco warns of critical Unified CM flaw with PoC exploit code (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-4 Cisco

France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting to ~10 GW of new computing capacity, equivalent to ~10 nuclear reactors (www.ft.com)
2026-6-4 France AI

Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's GIC, and the OTPP, taking its total funding to $3B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-4 Singapore

Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities to let workers assign tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027 (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-4 Europe Amazon AI Robot

Challenger: US tech companies announced cuts to 38,242 jobs in May, the most since August 2024, taking 2026's total so far to 123,653 cuts, up 65% YoY (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-4

NASA Says Goodbye to Its Longtime Mars MAVEN Mission (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-4 NASA

Foxconn says it will work with Intel to jointly develop and deploy next-gen AI infrastructure, including server racks with Intel Xeon processors and AI chips (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-4 Intel AI

A look at debates over AI consciousness; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, without denying how impressive LLMs can be (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-6-4 AI

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