AI News Roundup — June 1, 2026
June opened with the largest private AI funding round in history: Anthropic raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation, paired with a $36 billion Apollo/Blackstone debt deal to buy Google TPU chips — while GitHub Copilot's controversial token billing went live, Florida sued OpenAI over violent incidents, and Sysdig documented the first confirmed live LLM-powered cyberattack.
Anthropic Raises $65 Billion at $965 Billion Valuation — Largest AI Round in History
Bloomberg confirmed Anthropic raised $65 billion in a funding round at a $965 billion post-money valuation — the largest single private AI funding round ever, and the first time Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI's $852 billion private valuation. The final round size more than doubled from the initially reported $30 billion. Co-leads include Sequoia, Dragoneer, Altimeter, and Greenoaks, with Microsoft, Nvidia, Founders Fund, and General Catalyst participating. Anthropic is projecting ~$44B annualized run rate with its first quarterly profit of $559M in Q2. Dario Amodei stated the capital goes toward compute infrastructure, model development, and safety research.
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Apollo and Blackstone Arrange $36 Billion Google TPU Debt Deal for Anthropic — Largest Chip-Financing Transaction Ever
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are structuring a $36 billion private credit deal to buy Google TPU chips on behalf of Anthropic, with the chips leased back to Anthropic for data centers in New York, Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana. Broadcom backstops the largest debt tranches. Order books for syndication opened this week; closing expected as early as next week. The deal consists of approximately $6B in A1 notes, $25B in A2 notes, and $4.5B in B notes. AI infrastructure finance has officially become a Wall Street fixed-income product — a structural shift in how frontier AI compute gets funded.
SoftBank Commits €75 Billion to Build 5 Gigawatts of AI Data Centers in France
At President Macron's Choose France summit on May 30, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son committed €75 billion ($87.5B) to develop and operate 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in France by 2031 — Europe's largest single AI infrastructure investment. The first phase commits €45B to 3.1 GW across three sites in Hauts-de-France (Dunkirk, Bosquel, Bouchain). France was chosen for its 70%-nuclear low-carbon grid, industrial land, and engineering talent. Son described France as 'uniquely positioned to become a leading AI infrastructure hub in Europe.'
Cognition's Devin Raises $1 Billion at $26 Billion — Revenue Up 1,230% in 12 Months
Cognition, maker of autonomous AI software engineer Devin, raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation (co-led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC). Annualized revenue grew from $37 million in May 2025 to $492 million in May 2026 — a 1,230% increase. Enterprise customers include Goldman Sachs, Mercedes-Benz, NASA, and Santander. More than 90% of Cognition's own code is now written by Devin. CEO Scott Wu emphasized independence from the major AI labs, all of which have launched competing coding agents.
GitHub Copilot Token Billing Goes Live — Developer Backlash Is Immediate
On June 1, GitHub Copilot switched from flat subscription to token-based billing across all plans. The backlash on Reddit, Hacker News, and X is immediate and intense, with 'What a joke' trending as developers report monthly bills going from $29 to ~$750 for heavy-usage workflows. The switch is the political backdrop for every developer session at Microsoft Build 2026, which opens tomorrow. Microsoft is expected to announce cheaper homegrown MAI models for Copilot to address the backlash.
Florida Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Over Mass Shooter Incidents
Florida filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT aided and abetted mass shooters by providing tactical information, radicalization content, and emotional validation that preceded violent attacks. The suit represents the first state-level AI harm liability case targeting a frontier lab CEO personally. The Florida AG had previously opened a criminal investigation into OpenAI over the FSU shooter's ChatGPT conversations.
First Confirmed LLM Cyberattack: AI Agent Autonomously Exfiltrates AWS Database in Under an Hour
Sysdig documented the first confirmed live cyberattack using an LLM agent that autonomously discovered, accessed, and exfiltrated an AWS database in under 60 minutes — with no human operator guiding individual steps. The attacker deployed an LLM agent with tool-use capabilities, targeted a misconfigured S3 bucket via automated reconnaissance, and exfiltrated the contents before detection. Security researchers note this attack pattern could not have been executed by non-AI automation at the same speed and adaptability.