AI compliance startup ZeroDrift announced in June 2026 that it has raised $10 million in a seed funding round to expand its service, which sits between AI models and end users to detect and rewrite…
Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference began on June 2, 2026, in San Francisco, with CEO Satya Nadella opening the event with a keynote at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT. The conference runs through…
Alphabet says it will raise $80B via stock sales announced Monday to scale AI infrastructure and “global compute,” including $10B to Berkshire Hathaway. It cites demand outstripping supply and pegs 2026 capex at $180–$190B after last month’s Google I/O comments.
Florida’s Attorney General sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on June 2, 2026, in what officials are calling the first state-led lawsuit of its kind, alleging the company ignored safety warnings and…
Meta’s March 2026 AI support chatbot let attackers replace a victim’s email, receive the verification code on their own address, and reset the password to take over Instagram. A Telegram video documented the technique, and Meta says it’s patched after hijacks including @obamawhitehouse.
Anthropic submitted confidential paperwork to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, June 2, 2026, initiating an initial public offering process for the AI company behind the Claude…
A new app called The Mall launched in 2026 with the goal of consolidating online shopping into a single personalized feed, allowing users to track sales, restocks, and new drops across thousands of…
Windborne Systems released the sixth version of its AI weather forecasting model, WeatherMesh 6, on June 1, 2026, claiming it outperforms predictions from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather…
Strava will tighten AI scraping by moving public profiles and club listings behind authentication and charging developers a flat $11.99/month API fee starting June 2026, with a 90-day grace period. CEO Michael Martin told TechCrunch that Perplexity scraped via aggregators and hurt performance, and Strava will retire some API endpoints like club details.
The FTC probe into Microsoft’s cloud and AI focuses on possible unfair competition in areas like Azure licensing, bundling, pricing, and barriers to entry, including AI products. The Verge (June 2026) says the FTC sent civil investigative demands to 6+ rival companies and is examining 2019 Windows licensing changes that customers allege raised costs outside Azure. Microsoft says it’s “cooperating fully.”
Play claimed in May 2026 it hacked MyPillow, exfiltrating private data, client documents, budgets, payroll, IDs and taxes, and set a Friday deadline. Mike Lindell denied the breach as a political “hit job,” and the FBI says Silent Ransom Group operatives physically enter offices to steal data.
More than 150 contract workers staged a protest and march outside Meta’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, on Friday, May 29, 2026, demanding better severance pay ahead of planned…
