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Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-3 Sensor

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

Source: Google asked Google Play app devs to join a “confidential content offer pilot”, offering to pay for access to codebases to use them to train AI tools (www.404media.co)
2026-6-3 Google AI

Source: SpaceX plans to raise $75B in its IPO by selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, an unusual move since most companies set a price range before the roadshow (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-3 IPO SpaceX

10 Everyday Concepts That Are Shockingly Modern (listverse.com)
2026-6-3

Google selling $10B of equity to Berkshire is fascinating and functions as a signal that AI demand is high, in a world where the most cash buys the most compute (stratechery.com)
2026-6-3 Google AI Equity Berkshire

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to below $67K on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy's first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-3 Bitcoin

Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital (sifted.eu)
2026-6-3 Startup Quantum

Microsoft's Coreutils project brings Linux commands to Windows (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-3 Linux Microsoft

Mathematicians Warn of AI Threats to Profession As Industry Encroaches (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-3 AI

Sources: a Broadcom-backed portion of Apollo and Blackstone's $36B debt deal to buy TPUs for Anthropic to lease may yield ~5.75% vs. 8%-9% for a riskier portion (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-3

OpenAI upgrades GPT-5.5, as it plans to retire legacy ChatGPT models (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-3

Critical Kirki flaw exploited to hijack WordPress admin accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-3 WordPress

Over 116,000 Mincraft systems infected in WeedHack malware campaign (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-3

European Parliament Ditches Google For French Search Firm (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-3 France Europe Google

Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $3B, including $388M from CyberArk and Chronosphere, vs. $2.94B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-3 4Q

The US sanctions Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, accusing it of helping Iran's government and blacklisted state institutions evade Western sanctions (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-3 Iran

Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including about nutrition, weightlifting, and anxiety (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-3 Facebook Instagram

Russian Spy Agency Says Foreign Spies Turned Officials' Smartphones Into Surveillance Devices (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-3 Russia

Marvell shares closed up 32.52% on Tuesday after Jensen Huang hailed the chipmaker as the “next trillion-dollar company” at Computex (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-3

Source: a CoreWeave-tied data center raised $900M via five-year junk bonds, priced at par to yield 7.5%, as the sector increasingly turns to high-yield bonds (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-3

Meta is testing a Series feature, letting select creators make episodic Reels that are placed in a dedicated hub on their profile, using both old and new Reels (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-3

AI-built ransomware toolkit automates EDR evasion, AD discovery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-3 AI

Microsoft Deliberately Bricking All Office For Mac 2019/2021 Installations (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-3 Microsoft

Microsoft releases ASSERT, an open-source framework that lets developers generate and run AI behavior tests using natural-language descriptions (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-3 Microsoft AI

Internal memo: Meta is scaling back elements of its employee tracking tool, launched in April to help train its AI models, after staff raised concerns (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-3 AI

Microsoft and Mayo Clinic partner for an AI model trained on Mayo's medical data, with plans to build an AI healthcare assistant and AI tools for clinicians (www.cnn.com)
2026-6-3 Microsoft AI

An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman about catching up with “what was state of the art just a few months ago”, refusing to use distillation, more (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-3 Microsoft Interview AI

Microsoft Unveils Scout, an Autonomous AI Agent Built On OpenClaw (build.slashdot.org)
2026-6-3 Microsoft AI

Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models” (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-3 Microsoft

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