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Also: Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation, and Ramp hits $44 billion valuation as companies look to rein in AI spending. Every story links to its primary source.
Curated by Gaurav · June 4, 2026
A coalition of investors managing $1.15 trillion is pressing Alphabet to explain how it monitors government use of its cloud and AI services.
Database startup Supabase announced a $500 million funding round that values the company at $10.5 billion, including the fresh capital.
Ramp's latest funding round was led by ICONIQ, GIC and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
Investors ditched technology stocks in favor of the so-called “old economy” on Thursday as Broadcom Inc.’s earnings report pumped the brakes on the artificial-intelligence rally.
Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.
Forbes argues token-based billing is exposing how opaque AI subscriptions hid runaway inference costs until finance teams saw real bills. The piece ties Anthropic's mega-round to a customer that accidentally spent $500 million in a month without spend caps.
Anthropic says more than 80% of code merged into its production codebase in May was authored by Claude, not human engineers. The company reports an eightfold jump in code shipped per engineer versus its 2021-2025 baseline.
The dot-com guardrails are being dismantled just as SpaceX and Anthropic go public, experts warn. Your retirement account could feel it.
With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550-billion-parameter open mixture-of-experts model built for long-running agents with a one-million-token context. The release ships open weights, training data, and recipes, with NVIDIA claiming up to sixfold higher inference throughput than comparable open LLMs.
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