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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

What the hell happened to Christopher Nolan? The Odyssey casting backlash explained (www.rt.com)
2026-6-4

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

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able to fulfill demand led by US customers even as more capacity comes online in the US over the next few years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-4

A deep dive into the case for data centers in space, as SpaceX prepares to go public: Elon Musk's claims, the wider debate, power supply issues, costs, and more (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2026-6-4 Elon Musk SpaceX

SpaceX wins a property tax exemption for its planned $55B Terafab chip facility in Texas, despite Texans threatening legal action, amid local opposition to AI (www.ft.com)
2026-6-4 Tax AI SpaceX Texas

Alibaba says it is opening Qwen to third-party AI agents, starting with KFC, Mixue, and others, and Qwen's app serves 100M+ daily lifestyle services engagements (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-4 Alibaba AI KFC

CoinGecko: Hyperliquid-linked HYPE token is up ~180% YTD, lifting its market value above $16B and pushing it into the top 10 digital assets by market cap (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-4 Asset

Applied Materials plans to expand its Southeast Asia workforce by 25% in 2026, hiring ~1,000 workers mainly in Singapore, a key chip packaging equipment hub (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-4 Asia Singapore Southeast Asia

Amazon's New Stargate Series Is Officially Dead (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-6-4 Amazon

A profile of Anthropic as it prepares to go public and broaden access to Mythos, amid criticism that commercial pressures have eroded its AI safety standards (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-6-4 AI

Black guest sues Airbnb over rejected stay – Independent (www.rt.com)
2026-6-4 Airbnb

A study of Waymo robotaxi data for 13.8M trips from August 2023 to December 2025: the share of miles driven with a passenger onboard climbed from 36% to 56% (arstechnica.com)
2026-6-4

Centralized control over the user experience not only leads to enshittification, but to “despotification”; decentralized protocols bring back democratic ideals (www.liberalism.org)
2026-6-4 Decentralize

How AI tools from Harvey, Legora, and Anthropic are challenging legal tech incumbents like Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis, which are upgrading their products (www.ft.com)
2026-6-4 AI

Sources: OnePay, a fintech app backed by Walmart and valued at $4B+, has 6M MAUs and $50B in annualized payments, double the figures from the previous year (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-4 Fintech Walmart

Taiwan and South Korea's stock market capitalizations overtake India's as global investors favor markets with companies positioned to benefit from the AI boom (www.ft.com)
2026-6-4 Korea India Taiwan AI

The missile gap problem: US Indo-Pacific deterrence under strain (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-6-4

Current and former employees detail Amazon's e-commerce struggles in India, where local rivals have challenged the company more than anywhere outside of China (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-4 China India Amazon

World's highest-grossing law firm Kirkland & Ellis agrees to a multiyear deal with Palantir to develop an AI tool to help advise PE firms on raising capital (www.ft.com)
2026-6-4 AI

Missiles and Drones Fly as Iran War Smolders (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-6-4 Drone Iran

US SEC filing: Vanguard marks down Ola Consumer's valuation to ~$70.3M; Ola, which faces intense competition from Uber and Rapido, was valued at $7.3B in 2021 (entrackr.com)
2026-6-4 Uber

Demand Is Booming For New No Tech, Repairable Tractor (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-4

Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit claim that peptide companies are spamming their forum in hopes of getting their posts scraped and used by AI chatbots (www.404media.co)
2026-6-4 AI chatbot

Zakharova slams Western media for ignoring Starobelsk massacre (www.rt.com)
2026-6-4

Sources: Meta has repeatedly delayed plans to release the Muse Spark API due to bugs and infrastructure needs; Meta says it plans to release it this month (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-4

AI Investment Boom Sucks Up Hoarded Cash from Stock Market Investors & Companies, Sprays it into the Real Economy (wolfstreet.com)
2026-6-4 Stock AI

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among signatories on an open letter urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA potentially used in AI-developed bioweapons (www.wired.com)
2026-6-4 AI

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