Saturday June 6, 2026
The Week in Review
Crypto and Blockchain
◾ Treasury’s Bessent reiterates CBDC “off the table” (The Block)
◾ CFTC approves crypto perpetual futures (CFTC)
◾ Fed’s Waller: stablecoins could broaden US monetary-policy reach (Bloomberg)
◾ House Ways and Means readying crypto tax bill banning wash sales (Bloomberg)
◾ Sen Sanders (I-VT) to introduce 50% tax giving AI company shares to US (NYT)
◾ House Democrats urge FTC to probe prediction market ads (House.gov)
◾ UN: AI energy use to equal electricity consumption of ~2B people by 2030 (UNU)
◾ Strategy stops hodling, sells 32 bitcoin to fund dividend (8-K)
◾ Bitmine Immersion $BMNR to issue 9.50% Series A perpetual preferred stock (PR Newswire)
◾ Binance rolls out US stocks and ETFs (Reuters)
◾ Helium Mobile acquired by Noble Mobile (Helium)
◾ Kaiko acquires Amberdata in crypto data consolidation (Kaiko)
Artificial Intelligence
◾ Trump signs EO asking tech companies to voluntarily give government oversight over new AI models (White House)
◾ Trump administration seeks US ownership stakes in major AI companies (NOTUS)
◾ War Secretary Hegseth denies request to reconsider Anthropic’s defense supply-chain risk designation (Politico)
◾ Anthropic urges coordinated pause if humans lose control of AI (WSJ)
◾ OpenAI agrees to US government review before releasing new AI models (CNBC)
◾ Anthropic flags unauthorized secondary share-sale platforms (Anthropic)
◾ ChatGPT rolls out improved memory (OpenAI)
◾ Nvidia $NVDA unveils AI chip for laptops, PCs (Reuters)
◾ Tencent testing AI agent for WeChat (FT)
◾ Anthropic expands Project Glasswing, opens Mythos to 150 new companies (Anthropic)
◾ Microsoft $MSFT unveils Scout, AI built to function like executive assistant (Bloomberg)
Gaming, Social & Interactive Platforms
◾ Apple $AAPL reportedly kills Vision Pro 2 in favor of smart glasses (MacRumors)
Space & Satellites
◾ Blue Origin CEO: New Glenn to return to flight by year-end (Reuters)
◾ US Space Force awards SpaceX $4.1B space-based sensor contract (Space Force)
◾ NASA ends Mars atmospheric probe mission after 11 years (Reuters)
◾ Chinese solar manufacturers launch alliance to promote space-based solar (Bloomberg)
◾ NASA abandons core module concept for space station (X)
◾ HIVE Digital Technologies $HIVE FY’26: Revenue $297.8M +158% y/y | Net loss $148.4M | aEBITDA $72.9M (Newsfile)
◾ Cango $CANG Q1’26: Revenue $102.0M | Op loss $254.4M | Net loss $261.1M | aEBITDA loss $154.1M (PR Newswire)
◾ C3 AI $AI Q4’26: Revenue $51.6M -53% y/y | Op loss $121.2M | Net loss $115.6M (SEC Filing)
◾ SATO Technologies $CCPUF Q1’26: Revenue C$1.4M -54% y/y | Net loss C$1.3M | aEBITDA loss C$578.3K (Newsfile)
Finance
◾ SpaceX to sell 555M shares at $135 in IPO, targeting $1.75T valuation (WSJ)
◾ S&P keeps index eligibility rules unchanged ahead of SpaceX listing (Reuters)
◾ Anthropic confidentially files for IPO (Bloomberg)
◾ The $100 Million Crypto “Looksmaxxing” Boom: How Chinese Cartel Suppliers Pivoted to the Gray-Market Peptide Ecosystem (Chainalysis)
◾ Sam Altman dishes on OpenAI’s top token user (Axios)
◾ China undermining US by fueling anti-AI data center protests, lawmakers claim in chilling warning (NYPost)
◾ SpaceX’s CFO Is the Quiet VIP of a Wild IPO (TheInformation)
◾ Bluesky was launched as a Twitter rival — but it’s far less popular. Now it’s eyeing Reddit for inspiration (CNBC)
◾ World Cup 2026: What you need to know about all 48 teams (ESPN)