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title: "The Morning Brief — June 2, 2026"
date: 2026-06-02T00:00:02-05:00
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description: "Anthropic files for what could be the largest tech IPO ever, Meta's AI hands hackers the keys to Instagram, Florida sues OpenAI over a shooting, and China beats Neuralink to the punch with the world's first approved invasive brain chip."
tags: ["Morning Brief", "AI", "artificial intelligence", "tech news"]
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## [Anthropic Files for What Could Be the Largest IPO Ever](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/anthropic-files-to-go-public/)

Anthropic has officially filed its S-1 with the SEC, kicking off what could be the biggest tech IPO in history — beating OpenAI to the punch after months of will-they-won't-they speculation. The company that once positioned itself as the safety-focused underdog is now valued higher than its chief rival, which is either a vindication of the "responsible AI" pitch or a reminder that Wall Street doesn't actually care about any of that. Either way, the AI bubble is about to get its first major stress test from public markets, and I'll be watching the prospectus footnotes very carefully.

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## [Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked.](https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/)

Meta's AI support chatbot was, until recently, handing over Instagram account access to anyone who politely asked it to reassign the email on someone else's profile. A hacker demonstrated the exploit on Telegram — no elaborate phishing, no zero-day, just a conversational request to a bot that apparently didn't think twice. This is the natural endpoint of replacing human customer support with AI that has account-level permissions: you've automated the social engineering step right out of existence.

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## [Florida Sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in First-of-Its-Kind Lawsuit Over Violent Incidents](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/florida-sues-openai-sam-altman-in-first-of-its-kind-lawsuit-over-violent-incidents/)

Florida has become the first state to sue OpenAI and Sam Altman personally, with the lawsuit centering partly on last year's Florida State University shooting and ChatGPT's alleged role in it. This is uncharted legal territory — the question of whether an AI company bears liability for downstream violence is one courts haven't really grappled with yet. Whatever you think of the merits, this is the kind of case that sets precedent, and the AI industry would be foolish to treat it as a nuisance filing.

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## [Meta's Own AI Was Exploited to Hijack Instagram Accounts](https://www.theverge.com/tech/941179/meta-instagram-ai-support-chatbot-exploit-hacked)

The Verge has more context on the Meta chatbot exploit: the company says the issue has been patched, but the damage to trust is harder to patch. Giving an AI system the authority to modify account credentials — without robust identity verification — is exactly the kind of "move fast" decision that looks brilliant until it doesn't. Meta says it's resolved, but the real question is how many other AI-powered support systems are sitting on the same trapdoor.

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## [China Has Approved the World's First Invasive Brain-Computer Chip — Here's What's Next](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/01/1138133/china-world-first-brain-chip/)

While the U.S. debates Neuralink's regulatory timeline, China has already approved an invasive BCI and has a paralyzed patient writing with a pen in his courtyard. MIT Tech Review's deep dive on Dong Hui's case is remarkable — both as a human story and as a geopolitical signal. The race for brain-computer interfaces just got a very concrete scoreboard update, and the U.S. isn't currently winning.

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## [Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated](https://www.404media.co/amazon-shuts-down-internal-ai-leaderboard-after-employees-cheated/)

Amazon built an internal AI performance leaderboard to incentivize employees — and employees promptly gamed it into the ground, with some outright admitting it to 404 Media. This is a perfect little parable: you create a metric to measure AI productivity, and humans immediately optimize for the metric rather than the productivity. Jeff Bezos famously hated PowerPoint; turns out he should have also worried about leaderboards.

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## [Nvidia Chases $200B CPU Market With AI Agent PCs From Microsoft, Dell, and HP](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/nvidia-chases-200b-cpu-market-with-ai-agent-pcs-from-microsoft-dell-and-hp/)

Nvidia is coming for Intel and AMD's lunch with RTX Spark, its first consumer laptop chip, backed by hardware from Microsoft, Dell, and HP. The promise: AI agents running locally on your machine, Apple M-series performance levels, and the full Nvidia ecosystem. The catch, per The Verge: expect to pay significantly for the privilege. If Nvidia can actually deliver what Apple did with the M1 transition, this reshapes the entire PC market — but "if" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

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## [Alphabet Plans to Raise $80 Billion to Pay for AI Buildout](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/alphabet-plans-to-raise-80-billion-to-pay-for-ai-buildout/)

Google's parent is raising $80 billion because demand for its AI services is "exceeding available supply" — a problem that sounds like a flex but is apparently genuine enough to warrant the largest debt raise in corporate history. Between this, OpenAI burning through $50B in compute, and SoftBank dropping €75B on French data centers, the AI infrastructure arms race has moved well past "expensive hobby" territory. Someone is going to be very right or very wrong about the returns on all this concrete and silicon.

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## Bottom Line

The AI industry is simultaneously filing for IPOs, getting its chatbots exploited by teenagers, and borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars — and somehow all of that is just Tuesday.