OpenAI to file for IPO as soon as Friday - CNBC

OpenAI says it helped solve a significant Erdos conjecture - OpenAI

OpenAI launches Guaranteed Capacity with one- to three-year commitments. - OpenAI

OpenAI offers YC startups tokenmaxxing for equity - Business Insider

Are you winning, Son? SoftBank insiders worry over CEO Son's $60 billion bet on OpenAI as rival Anthropic advances. - Bloomberg

Google is retiring its 25-year-old search box paradigm, unveiling a redesigned, dynamically expanding box that accepts text, images, PDFs, videos, and open Chrome tabs, with AI-powered query suggestions, and results pages merging AI Overviews and AI Mode. - VentureBeat

Google I/O 2026 keynote launches Gemini 3.5 Flash, restructures AI Ultra pricing, and reveals new consumer AI features. - 9to5Google

The Usain Bolt of AI: Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash with nearly 300 tokens per second output. - Ars Technica

Google claims Gemini is approaching 1b monthly active users - Business Insider

Omni Banana: Google unveiled Gemini Omni at I/O 2026, debuting with Gemini Omni Flash for text-prompted video generation and editing, and positioned as "Nano Banana but for video." - Gizmodo

Google announced Gemini Spark at I/O 2026, an always-on AI agent powered by the new Gemini 3.5 Flash model that runs 24/7 on Google Cloud virtual machines and can write emails, build study guides, and monitor credit card subscription fees. - The Verge

Publish or Perish-ware: Google announces Co-Scientist, a multi-agent AI system designed to accelerate scientific research - Google DeepMind

Google unveiled Antigravity 2.0 at I/O 2026, expanding its agentic coding tool into a full developer platform with a revamped desktop app supporting multi-agent orchestration, a new Go-based CLI, and an SDK for custom agents; native integrations include Google AI Studio, Firebase, and Android. - TNW | Apps

Google's Antigravity 2.0 used 96 AI agents to build an OS running Doom for under $1,000. - Reddit

Google DeepMind CEO says AI should augment developers, not replace them. - WIRED

Base camp for the rapture, crevasses ahead: DeepMind CEO says Google may be in foothills of AI singularity at I/O conference. - The Verge

Google DeepMind AI engineer claims unfair dismissal after protesting Israel AI work. - the Guardian

Initial Rocket Offering: SpaceX is reportedly preparing a Nasdaq listing as early as 12 June at a $1.75 trillion valuation, aiming to raise up to $75 billion in what would be the largest IPO in history, surpassing Saudi Aramco's $29.4 billion record from 2019, and a bizarro 100x price/sales ratio. - Yahoo

Space code-boys: SpaceX previously announced it acquired an option to buy Cursor, now confirms it will exercise after IPO - Bloomberg

Move fast and break your soul: Meta is mandating reassignment of more than 7,000 workers to new AI-focused teams, including an AI cloud infrastructure group and an internal AI agent project codenamed Hatch, telling employees "transfers aren't optional," as it also lays off another 10%. - the Guardian

Trump's AI order will make sharing models with government voluntary, reversing earlier mandatory vetting. - Gizmodo

Four major AI chatbots fail accuracy tests 90% of the time on election questions, a new study finds. - Bloomberg

Using a second AI to fact-check a primary AI reduces hallucinations but needs human review. - The Wall Street Journal

Delulu and the damage done: Banned streamer Sam Pepper used Decart's free realtime deepfake app Delulu on Kick to impersonate Mr. Beast, Jeffrey Epstein, Amouranth, and Sydney Sweeney, making defamatory statements and sexually manipulating AI-generated bodies of female celebrities on stream. - 404 Media

GitHub got hacked which is not great, for instance, if not contained they might need to go offline, a lot of the world's codebases could get poisoned etc. - X (formerly Twitter)

Open-source tool removes AI watermarks and metadata, potentially conflicting with regulations. - GitHub

BLS data shows 18 AI-exposed occupations had a 0.2% employment decline from May 2024 to May 2025. - Ubergizmo

Companies that redesign around AI and and shorter feedback loops will operate differently — with decisions closer to data, fewer handoffs, and roles built around systems rather than tasks. McKinsey research indicates measurable AI gains correlate with workflow redesign rather than tech deployment. - Yahoo

Harvey CEO predicts AI will push law firms to adopt fixed fees over billable hours. - Financial Times

Advanced evaluation and observability for multi-step AI agents in production. - The JetBrains Blog

TTS emotional damage: AI announcer flubs names in graduation ceremony - The Verge

Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I., Natch - New York Times

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