US officials have discussed taking government stakes in AI companies
US officials have discussed taking government stakes in AI companies

The idea is unusual enough that it took a moment to register: the United States government, owning a slice of the companies building frontier AI. According to a report by NOTUS, senior US officials have held preliminary discussions with major AI compan…

South Korea’s labour minister wants tech firms to share AI windfalls
South Korea’s labour minister wants tech firms to share AI windfalls

The argument is about who the AI boom is for. South Korea’s labour minister, Kim Young-hoon, has called on the country’s largest technology firms to share the windfall profits flowing from the AI-driven chip cycle, warning that record sector gains risk…

The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos

On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email addresses that they controlled, and the agent complied. One attacker broke into the dormant Obama White House account and made pro-Iran…

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang flags robotics as Korea’s next growth engine
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang flags robotics as Korea’s next growth engine

Nvidia’s chief executive arrived for a four-day visit pitching robotics and physical AI, and looking past the memory chips that already bind the company to Korea. Jensen Huang made the pitch before he had left the airport. Arriving at Gimpo for a four-…

Anthropic urges a coordinated, verifiable pause for frontier AI
Anthropic urges a coordinated, verifiable pause for frontier AI

The scenario Anthropic is worried about is one where the technology stops waiting for permission. On Thursday the company argued that frontier AI developers should build a coordinated, verifiable mechanism to slow down or temporarily pause development …

Upwind, the next-gen wiz, now secures every corner of the AI stack
Upwind, the next-gen wiz, now secures every corner of the AI stack

Upwind just dropped a new product announcement today, and it signals a fundamental shift in how the company thinks about AI risk. CEO Amiram Shachar published a lengthy post this morning laying out Upwind’s “Security for AI” thesis, the companion piece…

Canada unveils $2.3bn AI strategy as Carney takes cues from Pope Leo on safety
Canada unveils $2.3bn AI strategy as Carney takes cues from Pope Leo on safety

Days after a phone call with Pope Leo XIV about the moral stakes of artificial intelligence, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Toronto on Thursday and announced precisely the kind of national framework the pontiff had demanded. The strategy,…

Publishing professionals are becoming prime targets for impersonation
Publishing professionals are becoming prime targets for impersonation

An aspiring author receives an email from a “literary agent” expressing enthusiasm about their manuscript. The message is polished, personalized, and professional. The sender references recent bestsellers, adaptation potential, and submission strategy….

Meta launches an AI assistant that tells Facebook creators why their content works, not just that it did
Meta launches an AI assistant that tells Facebook creators why their content works, not just that it did

Knowing that a reel performed well has never been the hard part. The hard part is understanding why. Was it the hook, the timing, the format, the audio? Creators have spent years toggling between analytics dashboards trying to reverse-engineer answers …

Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital
Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital

Three companies are preparing to enter public markets this year with a combined valuation that could exceed $3 trillion. SpaceX is set to list as early as 12 June at a $1.77 trillion valuation, selling 555.6 million shares at a fixed price of $135 each…