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2026-06-06White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan says he will leave his role at the end of June; sources: Krishnan plans to start a pro-Trump AI policy institution (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
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2026-06-06Raspberry Pi closed up 27%+ on June 5 after saying it expects adjusted EBITDA of at least $38M in H1, putting it on track to beat $42M est. for the full year (Financial Times)
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2026-06-06FOIA docs reveal Amazon's extensive control over delivery drivers it insists are not employees, in a case the NLRB sought to settle on terms favorable to Amazon (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
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2026-06-06Kalshi and Polymarket sponsored X posts promoting viral LA mayoral election fraud conspiracy theories; Kalshi says it asked its paid influencers to remove posts (Max Tani/Semafor)
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2026-06-06Inside the Trump admin's push to integrate AI into the healthcare system, including an FDA regulatory fast track for digital health tech like AI chatbots (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
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2026-06-06Paris-listed Teleperformance, the world's largest customer service company, has become one of Europe's most shorted stocks, as hedge funds bet on AI disruption (Ramsay Hodgson/Financial Times)
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2026-06-06Sources: Uber has committed nearly $500M to self-driving startup Nuro, providing a crucial runway as Nuro works to prove its technology at commercial scale (Abhirup Roy/Reuters)
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2026-06-06Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of $124M, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to reduce small listings (Ami Yamada/Nikkei Asia)
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2026-06-06SoftBank's PayPay, Japan's dominant payments app, says it will take a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance for $840M, expected to close in October 2027 (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)
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2026-06-06OpenAI rolls out Lockdown Mode, an optional security setting designed to offer users advanced protection from prompt injection attacks by limiting some features (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
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2026-06-06Google Cloud says its SpaceX compute deal is a "short-term" agreement "to ensure we have bridge capacity to meet surging customer demand" for Gemini Enterprise (Kate Conger/New York Times)
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2026-06-06Privacy token Zcash plunges after the disclosure of a 2022 vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed undetectable ZEC counterfeiting (Akash Girimath/Decrypt)
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2026-06-05Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone (David Jeans/Reuters)
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2026-06-05Marvell and Flex, a contract manufacturer for electronics, will join the S&P 500; MRVL jumps 6%+ after hours after closing down 16.74% amid a broader sell-off (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
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2026-06-05Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the "Public Wealth Fund" that OpenAI outlined earlier (CNBC)
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2026-06-05Sources: Apollo and Blackstone finalized a $35B package for Anthropic to lease TPUs; Broadcom is backstopping payments on the debt's largest senior portions (Bloomberg)
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2026-06-05Trump signs a national security memorandum seeking to "accelerate the use of AI across intelligence and warfighting domains in line with American values" (Reuters)
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2026-06-05US-traded chipmakers plunged on Friday, after Broadcom missed expectations; Nvidia fell 6.19%, Micron fell 13.25%, AMD fell 10.86%, and Broadcom 7.92% (Noel Randewich/Reuters)
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2026-06-05Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale (CNBC)
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