ASML becomes Europe’s most valuable company ever as analysts bet on higher EUV output — its market cap hit $674 billion this week

ASML closed Wednesday, June 3rd, as the most valuable company in European history, reaching a market cap of $668 billion.
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Google signs $920M monthly compute deal with SpaceX — company’s projected annual data center revenue to exceed its combined proceeds from Starlink, launch services, and AI in 2025

Google’s $920-million-a-month deal with SpaceX will let it secure 110,000 Nvidia GPUs starting October 2026. This is the second data center deal that SpaceX has secured in a matter of weeks, especially as it’s quickly appr…

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Russia’s new ‘Starlink‑Style’ Rassvet fleet loses its first satellite after weeks — Object 4 drops out of orbit but 15 others remain

Object 4, one of 16 satellites in the first operational batch of Russia’s Rassvet broadband network, re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on approximately June 6th.
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Gaming soundbar can be hijacked from over 16 yards away without touch or pairing — the company allegedly refuses to label the blatant security flaw a cybersecurity risk

Security researcher Rasmus Moorats has demonstrated that Creative’s Sound Blaster Katana V2X gaming soundbar can be hijacked over Bluetooth from up to 16 yards away.
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Huawei-led team claims it post-trained DeepSeek’s 1.6-trillion-parameter model — 1,000 Ascend 910C chips used in training

A research group that includes Huawei Technologies says it completed full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek’s V4-Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model.
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Finland deploys new system to detect threats to undersea cables — distributed acoustic sensors measure vibrations from the seabed and informs the authorities and operators of suspicious activities

Finnish companies and academic institutions, alongside the Finnish Navy and Border Guards, worked together to develop a system that used existing undersea cables to detect potential disturbances on the seabed. This system …

NSA using Claude Mythos for ‘offensive cyber operations,’ report claims — says ‘half-a-dozen’ Anthropic engineers embedded inside the agency

US National Security Agency reportedly using Mythos for conducting cyber-attacks — report reveals Anthropic engineers inside the NSA
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Seattle to pass one-year AI data center moratorium next week — will use window to study community impact of AI buildouts

Two Seattle city council committees have passed a one-year moratorium and a resolution on data centers. The measures are still up for a vote in the full council, but many consider that simply as a formality.
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Industry coalition urges Trump administration to take urgent action as AI data centers’ extreme memory consumption threatens other industries — AI-driven memory chip shortage could raise prices in automotive, medical, telecommunications sectors

A coalition of nine U.S. trade associations has urged the Trump administration to address an AI-driven memory chip shortage, warning that soaring DRAM prices and constrained supply could raise costs for consumer electronic…

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Anthropic warns Claude AI is building itself faster than expected, calls for option to halt frontier development —’recursive self improvement’ increases risk humans lose control of AI

Anthropic has published a report warning that the development path it’s on could eventually leave humans unable to control AI systems.
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