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2026-06-02OpenAI 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)
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2026-06-02Analysis: 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 (Pew Research Center)
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2026-06-02SK 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 (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
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2026-06-02China 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 (Nectar Gan/Bloomberg)
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2026-06-02Computex 2026: ARM CEO Rene Haas says Oracle and ByteDance are among the customers of the company's new AGI CPU data center chips (Max Cherney/Reuters)
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2026-06-02Zhipu 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 (Reuters)
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2026-06-02A 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 (Bloomberg)
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2026-06-02SpaceX's, Anthropic's, and OpenAI's IPOs could add up to $4T to US stock market value within months, fueling concerns they could trigger more capital-raising (The Economist)
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2026-06-02AI will significantly disrupt IT consultancies as AI labs build their own advisory arms and execs expect more outcome-based pricing over hourly billing models (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
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2026-06-02An 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 (CNBC)
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2026-06-02OpenAI 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)
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2026-06-02Chinese procurement records: at least seven Chinese universities that support China's military and defense industry are seeking access to Nvidia's H200 chips (Bloomberg)
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2026-06-02Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
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2026-06-02Crunchbase: San Francisco startups hit a record of 1,404 seed deals in 2025; the number of NYC seed deals has dropped over the past three years, to 666 in 2025 (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
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2026-06-02Wise confirms it is under investigation by Belgian prosecutors over suspicions its accounts were used for money laundering involving €500M in transactions (Simon Lock/TBIJ)
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