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**StudioLab places 3rd at SuperAI 2026 Genesis competition, wins $250K in Azure credits**
**StudioLab places 3rd at SuperAI 2026 Genesis competition, wins $250K in Azure credits** StudioLab, a South Korean AI-robotics commerce content automation startup, placed third at the Genesis Startup...
OpenAI and Anthropic have operated large-scale private stock sale programs for employees and early investors.
OpenAI and Anthropic have operated large-scale private stock sale programs for employees and early investors. The two leading AI labs have enabled employees and early investors to sell a combined $14...
OpenAI faces multistate investigation from state attorneys general over ads and health data
OpenAI faces multistate investigation from state attorneys general over ads and health data A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI, serving a subpoena from New...
Rebellion and Upstage Reach Unicorn Status on Domestic Capital as Korean Startup Ecosystem Decouples from Global Funding
Rebellion and Upstage Reach Unicorn Status on Domestic Capital as Korean Startup Ecosystem Decouples from Global Funding AI chip startup Rebellion (리벨리온) and LLM firm Upstage (업스테이지) have each raised...
Anthropic blocks Fable 5 and Mythos 5 within days of release after US export control directive
Anthropic blocks Fable 5 and Mythos 5 within days of release after US export control directive Anthropic received a US Commerce Department directive on June 12, 2026, ordering it to block access to it...
# Spacex Sec Filing Signals Potential $75b Ipo Competing With Mega-Cap Listings
# Spacex Sec Filing Signals Potential $75b Ipo Competing With Mega-Cap Listings Spacex has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to sell over 555 million shares at $135 per shar...
Anthropic backtracks secret policy that would have covertly limited competitors using Claude.
Anthropic backtracks secret policy that would have covertly limited competitors using Claude. Anthropic has reversed a policy for its newly released Claude Fable 5 model that would have covertly degra...
xAI sued by former engineer alleging retaliation for Grok safety concerns
xAI sued by former engineer alleging retaliation for Grok safety concerns A former xAI engineer, Devin Kim, has filed a lawsuit against xAI and its parent company SpaceX, claiming he was fired in Sept...
Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centers
Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centers Amazon employees, including senior software engineer Liesl Wigand of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, testified before the Seatt...
Martin Scorsese endorses AI tools in film pre-production, joining Black Forest Labs (블랙 포레스트 랩스) as...
Martin Scorsese endorses AI tools in film pre-production, joining Black Forest Labs (블랙 포레스트 랩스) as partner and advisor. In a New York Times interview published June 7, 2026, Scorsese demonstrated gen...
Notion temporarily disables Anthropic models after infrastructure outage, restores access within 12 hours
Notion temporarily disables Anthropic models after infrastructure outage, restores access within 12 hours Notion briefly disabled access to all Anthropic models within its Notion AI productivity tool...
Google DeepMind director of AGI economics Alex Imas and Epoch AI's Phil Trammell discuss what remain...
Google DeepMind director of AGI economics Alex Imas and Epoch AI's Phil Trammell discuss what remains scarce after AI advances in an interview with Dwarkesh Patel. The conversation tackles a foundatio...
Trump's new AI order could change how OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic launch models.
Trump's new AI order could change how OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic launch models. President Trump signed an executive order requiring pre-release testing of frontier AI models before public deploymen...
Trump proposes US government taking equity stake in AI companies for public benefit
Trump proposes US government taking equity stake in AI companies for public benefit President Trump has proposed that the US government take a small ownership stake in leading AI companies, arguing th...
Raspberry Pi shares closed up over 27% after the company forecast H1 adjusted EBITDA of at least $38...
Raspberry Pi shares closed up over 27% after the company forecast H1 adjusted EBITDA of at least $38 million, significantly beating analyst estimates. The upgrade was driven by surging demand for edge...
Sriram Krishnan will leave his role as White House AI advisor at the end of June to launch an AI company.
Sriram Krishnan will leave his role as White House AI advisor at the end of June to launch an AI company. The departure of a top policy mind to entrepreneurship highlights the ongoing gravitational pu...
SpaceX has set its IPO valuation at $1.77 trillion, exceeding Tesla's roughly $1.6 trillion market c...
SpaceX has set its IPO valuation at $1.77 trillion, exceeding Tesla's roughly $1.6 trillion market cap. The company filed with the SEC on June 3, 2026, offering 555.6 million shares at a fixed price o...
Shield AI grapples with persistent technical issues and safety concerns in military drone development
Shield AI grapples with persistent technical issues and safety concerns in military drone development Defense-tech startup Shield AI is facing ongoing technical failures and safety problems in its AI-...
Meta builds AI data centers in tents, cuts construction time in half
Meta builds AI data centers in tents, cuts construction time in half Meta has constructed six weatherproof tents — internally called “rapid deployment structures” — outside New Albany, Ohio, to house...
Anthropic files IPO ahead of OpenAI, valued near $1 trillion
Anthropic files IPO ahead of OpenAI, valued near $1 trillion Anthropic has filed for an initial public offering with a valuation approaching $1 trillion, leapfrogging OpenAI in the race to go public....