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Anthropic banned 832 accounts for malicious cyber activity from March 2025 to March 2026. About 67% used AI to write malware or prep attacks. Once expert-only tasks like lateral movement are now run by AI for low-skill actors. Medium-risk-plus accounts rose 33% to 56%.

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US officials have discussed the federal government taking stakes in major AI companies, NOTUS reports. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has raised the idea with officials since early 2025. Anthropic is not discussing equity. The US already holds an Intel $INTC stake. Source: NOTUS.

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Data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions at a valuation above $50 billion, The Information reports. Brookfield $BAM and KKR $KKR are in early talks to invest. Switch went private in 2022 at about $11 billion. An IPO could follow next year, per the report.

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Pinterest $PINS will spend $4B on Amazon $AMZN Web Services through 2031, the largest infrastructure commitment in its history. AWS Trainium chips will train its AI models, with Graviton CPUs already running about a third of its infrastructure. Per Amazon and Yahoo Finance.

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S&P Dow Jones Indices will not bend its rules for SpaceX: the 12-month seasoning period and GAAP profitability screen for S&P 500 entry stay in place, closing the door on fast-track inclusion for mega IPOs days before the SpaceX listing. Per Axios and CNBC.

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The nine nuclear-armed states spent a record $119 billion on their arsenals in 2025, up 19% in a year, per ICAN. The US alone spent $69.2 billion, more than every rival combined, then China at $13.5B and the UK at $12.6B. Five-year total tops $471B. Via ICAN.

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In the EU, freedom of expression online is the digital right people most often say is applied well, at 60 percent, per the Digital Decade Eurobarometer charted by Statista. Lowest rated: control over personal data at 48 percent and child safety online at 42 percent.

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@PMOIndia India runs about 8.8 GW of nuclear today, near 3 percent of generation, so 100 GW by 2047 is over a tenfold build. The real constraint is liability: the 2010 Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act kept foreign suppliers out, and SHANTI amends exactly that.

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Eastern Latvia under an air-threat alert: a French Rafale on NATO patrol shot down a drone that crossed in from Russia near Rezekne, about 30 km from the border, on June 8. Latvia blames Russian electronic warfare. Drone's origin unconfirmed. Via Defense News.

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Europe's plan for a sixth-gen fighter just lost its core. Germany and France are ending joint development of the manned FCAS jet after Airbus $AIR and Dassault $AM failed to settle leadership, workshare and IP. The combat-cloud pillar survives. Via Defense News.

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A bipartisan House group released a 269-page draft AI framework: three-year preemption of state AI development laws, mandatory safety frameworks, incident reporting and semi-annual third-party audits for developers above $500M in revenue. Per The Hill and Roll Call.

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US industry groups warn the AI boom is triggering a memory chip shortage. Data centers are on track to consume about 70% of global memory output by end-2026, per IEEE Spectrum, and IDC warns PC, tablet and smartphone prices could rise 10-20% by year-end.

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A one-click VS Code flaw let attackers steal GitHub OAuth tokens: a crafted Jupyter notebook on https://t.co/mLxklKNMDS silently installed a rogue extension with read-write reach into victims' repos, private ones included. Microsoft $MSFT patched it June 3, per BleepingComputer.

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USGS recorded 94 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or above worldwide in the last 7 days. 2 were M6.0 or stronger. Top 3 by magnitude: M6.2 22 km WSW of Scarcelli, Italy; M6.0 33 km NW of Valparaíso, Chile; M5.7 154 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon. Source: https://t.co/TIfAjVSaDN.

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SpaceX wants Wall Street to take a discount on the biggest IPO ever. Elon Musk's firm is pushing for an underwriting fee below 0.75% on a roughly $75 billion listing. Even then, lead banks Goldman Sachs $GS and Morgan Stanley $MS would split around $500 million, Bloomberg reported.

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Microsoft $MSFT unveiled seven homegrown MAI models at Build 2026, including a cheaper GitHub Copilot coding model that undercuts OpenAI and Anthropic. It also launched Scout, an always-on agent that reads your email and calendar to reschedule meetings and draft replies.

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Married 65-year-old US men gain about 2.4 years of life expectancy over never-married men; married women the same age gain about 1.8 years, per a Jia et al. study in SSM Population Health charted by Statista. Based on 164,597 people in the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey.

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Power grids, water utilities and hospitals in 15+ countries are getting Anthropic's Claude Mythos model to scan their code for security holes. Project Glasswing expands from about 50 partners to 150. Early users found over 10,000 high or critical flaws.

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Developers who pulled @redhat-cloud-services npm packages since June 1 should treat CI and cloud credentials as compromised. Wiz found 32 packages, 96 versions carrying a credential-stealing worm after a Red Hat GitHub account was hijacked. Over 116,000 downloads affected.

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Meta $META staff pushed back on a tool logging their keystrokes and mouse movements, and won concessions. After flyers and a petition citing US labor law spread across offices, Meta is letting workers pause the monitoring for up to 30 minutes and request exemptions.