AI in Brief — Friday, 05 June 2026

Anthropic announced that its annualized revenue crossed $47 billion in May, up dramatically from roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025, as the AI startup prepares for an initial public offering. The company's breakneck growth trajectory now faces a real test as it moves toward becoming a public company. Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's biggest chip maker, is struggling to meet demand from American customers even as it expands factories in the United States. "Customer demand is so high, and we can only support so much," CEO C.C. Wei said after a shareholder meeting, according to reports from Reuters and Bloomberg. Source

Amazon announced a new version of its fully autonomous warehouse robot, Proteus, that will interact using natural language instead of code. The AI-powered upgrade allows human employees to assign tasks to the robot through spoken commands, marking part of Amazon's growing pivot toward automation in its warehouses. Source

Poke, a startup that lets people use AI agents through simple text messages, became the first AI agent approved for Apple's Messages for Business platform. The approval marks a significant milestone for third-party AI integrations on Apple's business-focused messaging service. Source

Kevin O'Leary, the Shark Tank investor, agreed to halve the size of his planned data center project in Utah. He sent a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday saying he will remove 19,430 acres from the project amid mounting pressure from residents and activists. Source

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