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Crypto-data provider Blockworks says it has acquired its rival Messari; source: Blockworks paid more than $10M for Messari, which was valued at $300M in 2022 (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-13

Anthropic says it is disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers after the US government issued an export control order, citing national security concerns (www.anthropic.com)
2026-6-13

Source: Howard Lutnick told Anthropic that Mythos 5 and Fable 5 would be subject to export controls after a company claimed it was able to jailbreak Mythos (www.axios.com)
2026-6-13

Sources: OpenAI was subpoenaed on Friday by a coalition of state AGs for documents covering a wide range of its activities and impact on users (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-13

Jeff Bezos' AI Startup Aims To Build an 'Artificial General Engineer' (slashdot.org)
2026-6-13 Startup AI Jeff Bezos

Sources detail frustration inside Meta's Applied AI team, formed in March to support Superintelligence Labs, over menial projects, “soul-crushing” work, more (www.wired.com)
2026-6-13 AI

The US DOJ approves Paramount's $111B purchase of WBD without forcing divestitures or behavioral remedies; state AGs could still try to block the move (www.politico.com)
2026-6-13

Justice Department Approves Paramount's $111 Billion Acquisition of Warner Bros. (slashdot.org)
2026-6-13

ShinyHunters Hacked 100+ Organizations By Exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-Day (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-6-13 Oracle

Sources: three ex-DOGE staffers are raising $130M from a16z, Sequoia, and others for a startup that aims to use AI to secure government systems (www.vanityfair.com)
2026-6-13 Startup AI

KPMG retracts a report on AI's benefits after it has been found to exaggerate AI adoption with case studies that appear to have been based on AI hallucinations (www.ft.com)
2026-6-13 AI KPMG

Google Sues Chinese Cybercrime Operation That Used Gemini AI To Send Scam Texts (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-13 China Google AI

Sources: Roku is in talks to sell itself; its shares have risen about 24% this year, giving the company a market value of $19.9B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-13

Maine disables data breach notification portal after fake disclosures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-13

Staff memo: Meta plans to limit employee token usage and encourage employees to use MetaCode, after internal AI spending forecasts reached billions for 2026 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-13 AI

Touchscreen Macbook '100% Confirmed,' Says Reputable Leaker (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-13 MacBook

Sources: SpaceX decided to rent its Colossus 1 data center to Anthropic after internal teams struggled to use it for Grok development due to latency issues (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-13 SpaceX

Microsoft Surface Flaw Allowed Unprotected Devices To Be Bricked By a Single Packet (it.slashdot.org)
2026-6-13 Microsoft

Sources: Microsoft considered spinning out or restructuring its Xbox unit as a wholly-owned subsidiary, or creating a joint venture with other partners (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-13 Microsoft Xbox

phpBB forum fixes auth bypass bug lurking for a decade (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-13

Ukrainian national pleads guilty to role in Conti ransomware operation (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-13 Ukraine

Over 400 Arch Linux packages compromised to push rootkit, infostealer (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-13 Linux

A profile of former Google DeepMind employee Thibault Sottiaux, now OpenAI's head of core products tasked with combining ChatGPT and Codex into a super app (www.wired.com)
2026-6-13 Google

Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Bid To Overturn Crypto Fraud Conviction (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-13

SpaceX debuts on the Nasdaq at $150, after pricing at $135, making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire; SPCX is up ~30% intraday, for a ~$2.3T market cap (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-13 Elon Musk SpaceX

Infineon to Open German Chip Fab as Part of EU Sovereignty Push (slashdot.org)
2026-6-13 Germany

SpaceX makes Nasdaq debut at $150 after pricing its shares at $135, giving it a market cap of $1.9T; Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-13 Elon Musk SpaceX

Meta confirms that a widespread outage is affecting its services, including Facebook and Instagram (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-13 Facebook Instagram

MrBeast hits 500M subscribers on YouTube, a record for the platform (www.thewrap.com)
2026-6-13 YouTube

SpaceX IPO Makes Elon Musk World's First Trillionaire (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-13 IPO Elon Musk SpaceX

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