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Anthropic Expands Its Most Dangerous AI Model to 150 Organisations — Including NATO and Critical Infrastructure

Claude Mythos Preview, the AI model that can autonomously write functional exploits for zero-day vulnerabilities, is now accessible to approximately 200 organisations across 15 countries through Anthropic's Project Glasswing. The expansion adds NATO, the EU's ENISA, Okta, and Samsung — and pointedly excludes UK banks. In its initial deployment, Mythos found over 10,000 high-severity vulnerabilities.

6/4/2026TechCrunch

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Space & Exploration

SpaceX Begins IPO Roadshow Targeting $75 Billion — The Largest Public Offering in History

SpaceX kicked off its investor roadshow today with a fixed offer price of $135 per share, targeting a $75 billion raise at a $1.77 trillion valuation. If the greenshoe option is exercised, total proceeds reach $85.7 billion — more than triple Saudi Aramco's 2019 record. Public trading begins June 12 on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX.

6/4/2026CBS News

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Artificial Intelligence

Meta Breaks From Open Source With Muse Spark, Its Most Powerful AI Model Yet

Meta Superintelligence Labs has launched Muse Spark, the company's first proprietary frontier model, abandoning the open-source strategy that defined Llama. Built from scratch over nine months, it scores nearly three times higher than Llama 4 on the AI Intelligence Index and sets new records in medical reasoning and visual figure understanding.

6/4/2026VentureBeat

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Microsoft's Majorana 2 chip has qubits that last 20 seconds — and a scalable quantum computer by 2029

Unveiled at Build 2026, Majorana 2 is Microsoft's second topological quantum chip. Its qubits have a mean lifetime of 20 seconds — roughly 1,000 times longer than its predecessor — achieved through a new materials stack developed with the help of an agentic AI system. Microsoft has cut its timeline to scalable quantum from 2033 to 2029.

6/3/2026Microsoft News

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SpaceX's IPO roadshow starts tomorrow — here's what a $1.75 trillion public offering actually looks like

The SpaceX investor roadshow begins June 4, with Nasdaq listing targeted for June 12 under the ticker SPCX. At $135 per share and 555 million shares offered, the company is targeting $75 billion raised at a $1.75 trillion valuation — which would be the largest IPO in history by a significant margin.

6/3/2026Seeking Alpha / Reuters

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Microsoft launched its first in-house reasoning model — and it outscores Claude Sonnet 4.6 in blind tests

MAI-Thinking-1, announced at Microsoft Build on June 2, is a 35-billion-parameter reasoning model that independent evaluators preferred over Claude Sonnet 4.6 for overall quality. It hits 52.8% on SWE-Bench Pro. It was trained without OpenAI data.

6/3/2026Microsoft AI

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Trump signs AI executive order asking companies to let the NSA test frontier models before release

A new White House executive order asks AI developers to voluntarily submit their most powerful models for government cybersecurity review up to 30 days before public release — a scaled-back version of an earlier proposal that industry groups had pushed back against.

6/3/2026The White House

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UK regulator forces Google to give publishers an AI search opt-out

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has issued binding requirements on Google, ordering the company to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews and model fine-tuning — the first time any major regulator has imposed these controls on AI search.

6/3/2026UK Competition and Markets Authority

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Cryptocurrency

US Treasury Sanctions Iran's Four Largest Crypto Exchanges, Targeting $7.8 Billion Shadow Economy

OFAC designated Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin, and Ramzinex — exchanges that together processed the majority of Iran's digital asset inflows in 2025 — for IRGC financing, ransomware facilitation, and sanctions evasion.

6/2/2026US Treasury

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Security

Trump Signs Executive Order Giving Federal Agencies 30-Day Pre-Release Access to Frontier AI Models

A new White House directive requires AI developers to submit their most powerful models for government review before release, triggered by alarm over AI's vulnerability-discovery capabilities.

6/2/2026Cybersecurity Dive

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Artificial Intelligence

Florida Becomes First State to Sue OpenAI and Sam Altman Over ChatGPT Safety Failures

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed an 83-page civil lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on June 1, accusing the company of concealing safety risks, collecting minors data without parental consent, and ignoring expert warnings while marketing ChatGPT to children. Florida is the first state to take such legal action.

6/2/2026Florida Attorney General Office / Courthouse News

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Alphabet Raises $80 Billion as Berkshire Hathaway Bets $10 Billion on Google's AI Future

Google's parent company announced its largest ever equity raise, setting 2026 capital expenditure guidance at $180-$190 billion as AI demand outpaces available compute supply.

6/2/2026Alphabet Inc.

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