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1. 🙌 Anthropic Filed to Go Public
Claude is going big. The AI chatbot’s maker Anthropic has filed confidentially for an initial public offering. While the company has yet to list the number of shares or set the price, the draft of its registration statement was submitted less than a week after it raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, valuing the company at $965 billion. (TechCrunch)
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3. 💰 Berkshire Hathaway Acquired Taylor Morrison for $6.8Bn
Maybe there’s a light at the end of the housing market tunnel? Conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway agreed over the weekend to acquire Taylor Morrison Home, the nation’s sixth-largest publicly traded builder, in a $6.8 billion mega deal. The offer represents a 24% premium to the homebuilder’s closing price on May 29 and values the company at about $8.5 billion, including debt. (CNBC)
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5. 🤑 Alphabet Plans to Raise $80Bn in Stock
Speaking of Berkshire Hathaway, Alphabet is planning to sell $80 billion in stock, including a $10 billion investment by the conglomerate. The Google parent company said the capital will “fund investments in its world-class AI compute infrastructure to meet its unprecedented customer demand.” (CNBC)
6. 🫠 No One’s Thrilled With GitHub Copilot’s New Token-Based Billing
Starting June 1, users of Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot will be charged based on how many tokens they burn through as they work instead of a low flat rate based on requests. The changes are proving to be a dramatic escalation, particularly impacting smaller companies and workers with tighter budgets. (TechCrunch)
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7. 🚨 Red Hat Users, Send This to Your Dev Team
Official Red Hat NPM accounts have been compromised and used to push a malicious worm that spreads from machine to machine where it steals confidential data. If your team has downloaded one of the dozens of affected Red Hat packages recently, you should investigate immediately. (ArsTechnica)
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