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DAILY ISSUE · 2026-06-03

Wednesday 03 June 2026

8 dispatches · every item carries a primary source and independent corroboration.

Markets2 filed
SpaceX sets fixed $135 IPO price, 555.6M shares, targeting record ~$75B Nasdaq r
MARKETS · ipo and ma filings · 2026-06-03SCOOP 88

SpaceX sets fixed $135 IPO price, 555.6M shares, targeting record ~$75B Nasdaq raise at ~$1.77T valuation

SpaceX set a fixed price of $135 per Class A share for its IPO, confirmed June 3 ahead of an expected June 11 pricing and June 12 Nasdaq debut under ticker SPCX. The company is offering 555.6 million shares to raise roughly $75 billion — more than double Saudi Aramco's 2019 record, making it the largest IPO ever. At $135, the implied valuation is about $1.77 trillion, which For

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Broadcom Q2 revenue hits record $22.2B, AI chip sales +143% to $10.8B — but stoc
MARKETS · ipo and ma filings · 2026-06-03SCOOP 75

Broadcom Q2 revenue hits record $22.2B, AI chip sales +143% to $10.8B — but stock sinks ~12-14% as $16B Q3 AI guide misses $17.2B

Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) reported fiscal Q2 2026 results on June 3: record total revenue of $22.2 billion, up 48% year over year and just above the ~$22.1B consensus, with AI semiconductor revenue of $10.8 billion soaring 143% y/y on demand for custom AI accelerators and AI networking. Adjusted EPS was $2.44 (up 54%), topping the ~$2.40 estimate. CEO Hock Tan touted 'record reve

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Cyber2 filed
Critical Magento RCE CVE-2026-45247 in Mirasvit Cache Warmer exploited within da
CYBER · cves zero days · 2026-06-03SCOOP 74

Critical Magento RCE CVE-2026-45247 in Mirasvit Cache Warmer exploited within days; CISA adds to KEV June 3

CISA added CVE-2026-45247 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on June 3, 2026, a critical (CVSS 9.8) PHP object-injection / deserialization-of-untrusted-data flaw in the Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer extension for Magento 2 (Adobe Commerce). Unauthenticated attackers can achieve remote code execution by supplying a crafted serialized PHP object inside the 'CacheWar

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CISA adds 2022 Linux cgroups container-escape bug CVE-2022-0492 to KEV after fre
CYBER · cves zero days · 2026-06-03SCOOP 70

CISA adds 2022 Linux cgroups container-escape bug CVE-2022-0492 to KEV after fresh in-the-wild exploitation

CISA added CVE-2022-0492 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on June 2, 2026, confirming active in-the-wild exploitation of a four-year-old Linux kernel flaw with a CVSS score of 7.8. The bug is an improper-authentication/missing-authorization defect (CWE-287, CWE-862) in the cgroup_release_agent_write() function of the cgroups v1 subsystem (kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c

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Memos1 filed
FTC opens 30-day comment period on X Corp petition to scrap 2022 $150M Twitter p
MEMOS · enforcement · 2026-06-03SCOOP 78

FTC opens 30-day comment period on X Corp petition to scrap 2022 $150M Twitter privacy order

On June 3, 2026 the Federal Trade Commission opened a 30-day public comment window — closing July 2, 2026 — on a petition by Elon Musk's X Corp asking the agency to set aside or modify the 2022 consent order imposed on what was then Twitter. That order carried a $150 million civil penalty after the FTC found Twitter had collected users' phone numbers and email addresses ostensi

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OpenAI updates GPT-Rosalind life-sciences model, adds Novo Nordisk and cuts geno
MODELS · frontier releases · 2026-06-03SCOOP 72

OpenAI updates GPT-Rosalind life-sciences model, adds Novo Nordisk and cuts genomics token use 31% vs GPT-5.5

On June 3, 2026, OpenAI announced a major update to GPT-Rosalind, its frontier reasoning model purpose-built for life-sciences research, drug discovery and translational medicine (named for Rosalind Franklin). The refreshed model folds in GPT-5.5's agentic coding and tool-use while sharpening domain performance — and does so more efficiently, using 31% fewer tokens than GPT-5.5

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Claude Opus 4.8 holds #1 on June leaderboards: 61.4 Artificial Analysis Intellig
MODELS · evals · 2026-06-03SCOOP 70

Claude Opus 4.8 holds #1 on June leaderboards: 61.4 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tops Appwrite Arena at 97.4%

Across early-June 2026 evaluation updates, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 — released May 28 at unchanged pricing of $5/$25 per million input/output tokens with a 1M-token context window — consolidated its position as the top-ranked frontier model. In Appwrite Arena's June update, which added four new frontier models, Opus 4.8 took #1 on the 'without-skills' board at 97.4%, the fir

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EU closes Article 50 transparency-guidelines consultation June 3 ahead of August
MODELS · ai governance · 2026-06-03SCOOP 63

EU closes Article 50 transparency-guidelines consultation June 3 ahead of August 2026 AI Act labeling rules

The European Commission's targeted consultation on its draft guidelines for transparency obligations under Article 50 of the EU AI Act closed on June 3, 2026, having opened May 8. The draft guidelines — accompanied by a separate, concurrently finalizing voluntary Code of Practice on AI-generated content — clarify what providers and deployers of interactive and generative AI mus

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