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Meta is alerting Instagram users whose accounts were taken over using Meta AI chatbot; some hackers claim to still be able to exploit Meta AI chatbot (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-4 AI chatbot Instagram

Nearly 40% of Alphabet's planned ~$85B in equity offerings for AI will go toward covering tax obligations tied to employee equity awards, amid the AI talent war (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-4 Tax AI Equity Alphabet

Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (www.axios.com)
2026-6-4 AI

Leading the Future, the pro-AI super PAC backed by Greg Brockman, appears to be linked to multiple sockpuppet accounts, including a purported anti-AI activist (x.com)
2026-6-4 AI

Amazon announces new visual search features, including displaying AI-generated images of products within its app based on users' search queries (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-4 Amazon AI

Microsoft Claims New Quantum Chip 1,000 Times Better Than Before (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-4 Microsoft Quantum

Town, which is developing personalized AI assistants that connect to users' email and calendar, raised a $55M Series A led by a16z (fortune.com)
2026-6-4 AI

Forage, a payments processor that helps retailers and food-delivery companies accept EBT cards, raised a $40M Series B led by Mouro Capital at a $225M valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-4

Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-6-4 AI

Android Gets Fake Call Detection That Uses RCS (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-4 Android

Lassie, whose AI agent helps dental practices automate admin work, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, a source says, at a ~$250M valuation (www.upstartsmedia.com)
2026-6-4 AI

CISA warns of active attacks exploiting Android, Linux bugs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-4 Android Linux

Meta is spinning off Supernatural into an independent company, Supernatural Health, after earlier saying the VR fitness game would stop getting new content (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-4 VR

Digital i: YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix fell from 100.5 to 93.4 (www.theguardian.com)
2026-6-4 YouTube Netflix

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become “one of the top four labs in the world”, and “the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI” (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-4 Microsoft

What 345 Days of Untested Exposure Looks Like at a Bank (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-4

Google sold $35B in stock in its equity raise this week, up from its planned $30B and taking its total funding to $85B; a source says it contacted 75 investors (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-4 Google Equity

Meta launches Meta Business Agent globally on WhatsApp and Instagram DMs, after a two-year pilot of the customer support AI bot in India, Mexico, and others (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-4 Mexico India AI Instagram WhatsApp

Anthropic unveils a Services Track for its Claude Partner Network, a ranking based on what companies built with Claude, and releases a Claude Partner Hub portal (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-4

Boston-based software monitoring startup Coralogix raised a $200M Series F at a $1.6B post-money valuation, up from $1B+ after a $115M Series E in June 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-3 Startup

Apple plans to open an Apple Developer Center in Berlin in 2026, its first center in Europe and fifth globally, offering in-person developer access and sessions (www.forbes.com)
2026-6-3 Germany Europe Apple

Q&A with Brian Chesky on running Airbnb in “founder mode”, how “founder mode and hustle culture” are different, AI customer service, adding hotels, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-3 AI Airbnb

Analysis: 10 Trump officials, including special envoy Steve Witkoff, reported holding stakes in SpaceX or xAI collectively worth $9.9M+, ahead of SpaceX's IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-3 Trump IPO SpaceX

Baidu CFO Henry He says the company expects to spin off and list its chip unit Kunlunxin in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2026, making it a “neutral player” (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-3 Hong Kong Shanghai

The EU Commission unveils its proposed tech sovereignty package, including the Cloud and AI Development Act, in a bid to cut its reliance on US tech companies (www.politico.eu)
2026-6-3 AI

The EU's Cloud and AI Development Act aims to triple data center capacity in the next 5-7 years, and introduce the Chips Act 2.0 to allow direct EU investment (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-3 AI

University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a “worm” powered by open-source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors its attacks for each computer (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-3 AI Toronto

ESA and YouGov: 212.3M people in the US between the ages of 5 and 90 play video games every week, up 3% from 2025; the average age of players rises to 37 (variety.com)
2026-6-3

Thanks To Robots, Ukraine Is Now Talking About Winning, Not Just Surviving (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-3 Robot Ukraine

Acer working to patch max severity zero-days in Wave 7 routers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-3

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