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title: "The Morning Brief — June 8, 2026"
date: 2026-06-08T00:00:02-05:00
draft: false
description: "WWDC brings Siri's latest comeback, Anthropic files for IPO, Meta launches AI clickbait, OpenAI adds Lockdown Mode, courts drown in AI-generated lawsuits, and the token price bubble gets a name."
tags: ["Morning Brief", "AI", "artificial intelligence", "tech news"]
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## [Here comes new Siri again](https://www.theverge.com/tech/944245/apple-wwdc-2026-ai-siri-gemini)

It's WWDC Monday, and Apple is once again pulling back the curtain on a "new" Siri — which, if you're keeping score at home, is at least the second time we've been through this ceremony in recent years. The smart play from behind might be letting Google and OpenAI absorb the early criticism before shipping something that actually works. Whether Apple can stick the landing this time, or if we'll be here again at WWDC 2027 saying the same thing, remains the real question.

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## [Anthropic, now atop the AI bubble, files for its IPO](https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/01/anthropic-now-atop-the-ai-bubble-files-for-its-ipo/)

Anthropic has filed for its IPO, beating OpenAI to the public markets punch in what has to sting just a little over on Mission Street. The company that was founded explicitly as a "safety-focused" AI lab is now apparently ready to answer to shareholders — a constituency that historically has shown limited interest in the philosophical dimensions of constitutional AI. Fascinating times.

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## [Meta made its own AI-generated clickbait news feed](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/944235/meta-app-ai-clickbait-articles)

Facebook spent years being dragged before Congress over algorithmic misinformation, so naturally the next move is to cut out the middleman and have AI generate the dubious content directly. The new "For You" section in the Meta AI app serves up AI-written stories with AI-generated images — all with the production values and journalistic rigor you'd expect from, well, a language model optimizing for clicks. Bold strategy.

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## [OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/06/openai-unveils-lockdown-mode-to-protect-sensitive-data-from-prompt-injection-attacks/)

After months of high-profile prompt injection exploits — including Meta's AI agent helpfully handing over Instagram accounts to anyone who asked politely — OpenAI is rolling out Lockdown Mode to reduce the blast radius when agents get manipulated. The fine print is worth noting: even with Lockdown Mode enabled, prompt injection is still possible; it just becomes less catastrophically likely. Progress.

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## [How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/04/1138391/courts-coping-ai-lawsuits/)

Federal judges are now spending meaningful chunks of their days sifting through AI-generated filings from pro se litigants — some of whom have legitimate grievances buried under hallucinated case citations. It's a genuinely complicated situation: AI is lowering the barrier for people who can't afford attorneys, while simultaneously flooding the docket with legally incoherent noise. The judicial system was not designed for this, and it's starting to show.

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## [Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/07/is-this-the-dawn-of-the-tokenpocalypse/)

TechCrunch is floating "Tokenpocalypse" as the name for the looming wave of AI price hikes, which — honestly, fair — as the major labs approach IPO and need to show a credible path to profitability, cheap inference pricing is going the way of free checking accounts. We already covered the industry's scramble to manage runaway costs last week; this piece gives it a name and a timeline. The tab is coming due.

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## [OpenAI is still working on that 'super app'](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/07/openai-is-still-working-on-that-super-app/)

A senior OpenAI employee declared that "chat is dead" — which is a very confident statement from a company whose primary product is, at the moment, a chat interface. The super app ambition makes strategic sense: if you're going to compete with Apple and Google at the OS level, you need a surface that's always present, not just a tab someone opens when they want to ask something. Whether OpenAI can actually execute a consumer product of that scale is a different question entirely.

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## [AI 'content creators' are getting harder to spot](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/943187/ai-content-creators)

AI influencers used to be a novelty you could clock immediately — uncanny valley faces, suspiciously perfect lighting, brand deals for products that didn't quite make sense. The new generation is different: better faces, better context, better parasocial engineering. At some point the question stops being "is this AI?" and starts being "does it matter?" — which is either a sign of technological maturity or a genuinely unsettling development, depending on your disposition.

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## Bottom Line

The AI industry is simultaneously building the future and frantically patching the present — and the bill for both is about to show up on your invoice.