Stepful, an AI-powered online training platform for healthcare workers, raised a $55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $105M (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)

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Edge Markets, which provides banking tools for gambling and prediction markets, including real-time payments on Kalshi, raised a $29.2M Series A led by CoinFund (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)

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Sources: SoftBank's talks with creditors to raise $6B through a margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake have stalled, weeks after it cut its target from $10B (Bloomberg)

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Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers and study their impact; Mayor Katie Wilson is expected to sign the bill (Greg Kim/The Seattle Times)

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CoreWeave founders have sold $2.3B in stock since the company's lockup period expired in August after a March 2025 IPO, reducing their combined holdings by ~25% (Ella Feldman/Bloomberg)

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ServiceNow says attackers exploited a flaw, patched on June 5, that let unauthenticated users query data from customer instances, but gives few other details (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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Sources: SpaceX aims to launch orbital AI computing tests by late 2027 and has requested permission from regulators to launch up to 1M data-center satellites (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

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Super Micro Computer aims to raise $7B in a series of equity and equity-linked financing transactions to fund its component purchases to satisfy AI orders (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

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Analysis: Trump and his sons profited $2.3B+ from four crypto ventures including $TRUMP since January 2025, while other investors in those projects lost ~$2.3B (Reuters)

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Docs: ~34K Instagram accounts, including Obama's White House account, were affected in the attack tied to Meta's AI chatbot; 3,500+ usernames were changed (New York Times)

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Anthropic says Fable 5 has invisible safeguards that use prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT to limit its effectiveness for frontier LLM development (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

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Hands-on with Claude Fable 5: impressive results with complex projects, including a data analysis tool built in just 9.5 hours and an interactive isochrone map (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)

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Kalshi plans to require users seeking to make bets in some markets linked to material nonpublic information to submit an online form disclosing where they work (Wall Street Journal)

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Apple says 79% of all iPhones and 86% of iPhones released in the last four years were running iOS 26 as of June 7, vs. 82% and 88% for iOS 18 before WWDC 2025 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

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Sources: Canadian payments company Nuvei is in advanced talks to acquire cross-border payments company Payoneer Global for about $2.7B (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

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A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

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Anthropic says internal and external red team tests of Fable 5 found no universal jailbreaks; it will keep user traffic for 30 days, aligning with Trump's AI EO (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)

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Anthropic says Fable 5 uses conservative safety classifiers that trigger a fallback to Claude Opus 4.8 in ~5% of sessions, in areas like cybersecurity (Anthropic)

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Anthropic says Fable 5 is available on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans through June 22, after which using Fable 5 will require usage credits (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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Anthropic prices both Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at $10 per 1M input and $50 per 1M output tokens, less than half the price of Claude Mythos Preview (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

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Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, a "safe" Mythos-class model it says can't be used for cyberattacks, to the public, and Claude Mythos 5 to trusted orgs (Wired)