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2026-06-04Sources: US officials have held talks with AI companies about the government acquiring shares; Sam Altman first pitched the concept directly to Trump in 2025 (NOTUS)
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2026-06-04OpenAI updates ChatGPT memory with a "more capable and compute-efficient" architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers (OpenAI)
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2026-06-04Quantinuum closed up 0.63% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, with a market value of $15.7B, after raising $1.68B in an upsized IPO (CNBC)
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2026-06-04Internal docs from lawsuits by 1,400 school districts show how social media companies targeted kids: Meta paid "teen ambassadors", Snap sent school-hour alerts (Jennifer Valentino-DeVries/New York Times)
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2026-06-04CoinGecko: 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 (Bloomberg)
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2026-06-04Alibaba 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 (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
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2026-06-04Applied 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 (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
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2026-06-04A 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 (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
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2026-06-04Centralized control over the user experience not only leads to enshittification, but to "despotification"; decentralized protocols bring back democratic ideals (Mike Masnick/Liberalism.org)
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2026-06-04A 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% (Jonathan M. Gitlin/Ars Technica)
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2026-06-04How AI tools from Harvey, Legora, and Anthropic are challenging legal tech incumbents like Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis, which are upgrading their products (James Paton/Financial Times)
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2026-06-04Sources: OnePay, a fintech app backed by Walmart and valued at $4B+, now has 6M MAUs and $50B in annualized payments, both double the figures from 2025 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
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2026-06-04Taiwan's and South Korea's stock market capitalizations overtake India's, as investors favor markets with companies positioned to benefit from the AI boom (Krishn Kaushik/Financial Times)
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2026-06-04Current and former employees detail Amazon's e-commerce struggles in India, where local rivals have challenged the company more than anywhere outside of China (Bloomberg)
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2026-06-04Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, agrees to a multiyear deal with Palantir to develop an AI tool to help advise PE firms on raising funds (Financial Times)
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2026-06-04US 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 (Kunal Manchanada/Entrackr)
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2026-06-04Moderators 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 (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
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2026-06-04Sources: 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 (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
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2026-06-04Liftoff Mobile raised $437M in its US IPO, selling 19M shares for $23 each, above its marketed range of $20 to $22, valuing the company at $3.83B (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)
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