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Amazon schedules Prime Day for June 23 to June 26, shifting the four-day sales event from its traditional July slot to avoid conflicts with the FIFA World Cup (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-2 Amazon

OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users (openai.com)
2026-6-2

Analysis: 22 of 24 US executive agencies saw a YoY increase in their average X account engagement during the first year of Trump's second term; @DOGE dominated (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-6-2 Trump

SK Hynix Chair Chey Tae-won says the company plans to double its memory chip capacity over the next five years, responding to a shortage that could last to 2030 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-2

10 Animals Everyone Gets Wrong (listverse.com)
2026-6-2

China adds data and algorithms to its trade secret rules, as part of Beijing's efforts to prevent tech leaks amid intensifying strategic competition with the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-2 China Algorithm

Computex 2026: ARM CEO Rene Haas says Oracle and ByteDance are among the customers of the company's new AGI CPU data center chips (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-2 Oracle

Zhipu AI says it plans to apply for a listing in Shanghai; Zhipu's Hong Kong-listed shares are up over 10x since its January IPO, giving it an $83B market cap (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-2 Hong Kong IPO AI Shanghai

Texas Adds Another Huge Solar Farm As ERCOT Grid Demand Soars (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-2 Solar Texas

A profile of Valve, which PrivCo estimates generated $5.2B in revenue and $1.5B in net income in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-2

The IPOs of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI could add up to $4T to US stock market value within months, fueling concerns they could trigger more capital-raising (www.economist.com)
2026-6-2 IPO SpaceX

AI will significantly disrupt IT consultancies as AI labs build their own advisory arms and execs expect more outcome-based pricing over hourly billing models (www.ft.com)
2026-6-2 AI

An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI's massive Stargate data center project in Saline, Michigan, coding models being the biggest driver of AI demand, and more (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-2 Interview AI

Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research (www.ft.com)
2026-6-2 Google

Procurement records show at least seven Chinese universities that support the country's military and defense industry are seeking access to Nvidia's H200 chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-2 China Nvidia

OpenAI says it has not donated to any super PACs and does not have an employee-funded PAC, and that Greg Brockman's support for Leading the Future is personal (openai.com)
2026-6-2

Remote Work, Not AI, Has Sidelined Recent College Graduates, Research Finds (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-2 AI

Crunchbase: SF startups hit a record of 1,404 seed deals in 2025, while the number of NYC seed deals has dropped over the past three years, to 666 in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-2 Startup

Wise confirms it is under investigation by Belgian prosecutors over suspicions its accounts were used for money laundering involving €500M in transactions (www.thebureauinvestigates.com)
2026-6-2 Belgium

Sources: Tencent, which has fallen behind domestic rivals in AI models, plans to test an AI agent for WeChat with a small group of users before a phased rollout (www.ft.com)
2026-6-2 AI WeChat Tencent

GitHub Copilot's new pricing model went into effect today, and many noted sticker shock with some saying a few hours of AI usage ate big chunks of monthly caps (arstechnica.com)
2026-6-2 AI GitHub

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter MoE open model; Artificial Analysis: it's the smartest open US model but trails the Chinese model Kimi K2.6 (the-decoder.com)
2026-6-2 China Nvidia

Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; source: Salesforce paid between $1B and $1.5B, a steep discount from Contentful's $3B valuation in 2021 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-2 Salesforce

Spain arrests doxer leaking sensitive data of govt employees (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-2 Spain

Red Hat npm packages compromised to steal developer credentials (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-2

Hackers hijack thousands of sites for ClickFix and FakeUpdate attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-2

The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-2

Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220+ are “fallen unicorns” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-2 Startup

Hackers Simply Asked Meta's AI To Take Over High-Profile Instagram Accounts (meta.slashdot.org)
2026-6-2 AI Instagram

Florida Sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, Accusing Them of Putting Profit Over Safety (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-2

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