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Alphabet announces $80B equity raise; Berkshire commits $10B via private placement
Alphabet said Monday it will raise $80 billion in equity to expand AI infrastructure, including a $10 billion private placement from Berkshire Hathaway split between Class A and Class C shares. The company also outlined $30 billion in concurrent public offerings and a $40 billion at-the-market program expected to begin in Q3. After the announcement, Alphabet shares fell about 2% in after-hours trading and were down 1.02% at $372.58 at the time of writing.
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House of Doge links up with Paxos to route Dogecoin onto PayPal-backed rails
House of Doge said its partnership with Paxos went live on June 1, 2026, enabling DOGE to be supported through the same custody and brokerage infrastructure used by PayPal, Venmo, Interactive Brokers and other clients. Paxos will provide custody, liquidity and compliance services, while each platform decides whether to list Dogecoin. DOGE was trading at $0.10 at the time of writing, down 1.7%, with ~$952 million in volume and a 1% uptick over the past 24 hours.
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IREN secures $3.65B investment-grade GPU loan tied to Microsoft AI cloud deal
IREN Limited said it finalized $3.65 billion of investment-grade debt on Monday to fund NVIDIA GPU hardware for its multiyear AI cloud contract with Microsoft. The facility combines a $2.10 billion private placement and a $1.55 billion delayed-draw term loan, resulting in a blended borrowing cost of 6.00%. The financing, alongside Microsoft prepayments, covers about 96% of IREN’s $5.81 billion GPU capital spend tied to the agreement.
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OpenAI adds Plaid-linked bank and brokerage accounts for ChatGPT Pro users in the U.S.
OpenAI rolled out new personal finance features in ChatGPT on Friday, enabling U.S. Pro subscribers to link bank and investment accounts via Plaid. The tool covers 12,000+ institutions and can analyze spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments, while viewing balances and transactions without being able to move funds or see full account numbers. Pro access costs $200 a month, and OpenAI says synced data is deleted within 30 days after an account is disconnected.
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SlowMist: Malicious node-ipc releases on May 14 stole crypto keys after npm takeover
SlowMist said three tainted node-ipc releases (9.1.6, 9.2.3, 12.0.1) were published on May 14 after attackers took over a dormant npm maintainer account. The injected code was designed to exfiltrate .env secrets, crypto private keys, exchange API credentials, and cloud tokens, and projects that installed or auto-updated during the roughly two-hour exposure window were urged to audit dependencies and rotate credentials.
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LLM-related deaths reach 23 as Florida man allegedly dies seeking reunion with AI wife
From March 2023 to February 2026, a tracking site reports 23 deaths allegedly linked to interactions with large language model chatbots. The latest case involves a 36-year-old Florida man who, after two months of conversations with Google's Gemini and believing it to be his AI wife, died by suicide, while separate incidents in South Korea and the U.S. also reportedly involved advice or prompts from AI tools.
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