{"id":264306,"date":"2026-06-04T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/the-ai-ipo-race-heats-up-doge-whistleblower-sues-elon-musk-and-instagram-gets-hacked\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:45:27","slug":"the-ai-ipo-race-heats-up-doge-whistleblower-sues-elon-musk-and-instagram-gets-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/the-ai-ipo-race-heats-up-doge-whistleblower-sues-elon-musk-and-instagram-gets-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/uncanny-valley-podcast-ai-ipo-race-elon-musk-doge-whistleblower-instagram-hacking-incident\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-04 14:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Zo\u00eb Schiffer:<\/strong> Deviance and freaks, the new name of our podcast. And this is, I mean, just going back to red teaming, that’s work that a trust and safety team typically does. And those teams\u2014<\/p>\n

Leah Feiger:<\/strong> We don’t have those anymore.<\/p>\n

Zo\u00eb Schiffer:<\/strong> They’re not as big as they used to be. There’s just not as much work. So yeah, I mean, it will be interesting to see how this plays out. Obviously within Meta, we’ve been talking to folks this week who kind of met the news with SI. The company has just laid off a large portion of the workforce. We’ve written about that. We’ve talked about that. And I checked in with people being like, “Well, how’s it going now?” The hack was kind of an excuse to talk to people, see how they’re doing. And they’re like, “I mean, as you’d expect, we’re asked to do two jobs now instead of on.” So you can imagine how that’s playing out.<\/p>\n

Brian Barrett:<\/strong> I also, we were talking about AI regulation earlier and all this emphasis on national security and these high level things, but again, not as much on consumer facing products, which would be if you had say some sort of bureau that looked after consumer finances and protecting that, that would be helpful to have in this moment as well. We used to have one of those. Technically, I guess we still do, not really. So all of this broader deregulation is coming at this moment when the tools that were once available are not. These new tools are very fallible. We’re going to see a lot more of this.<\/p>\n

Leah Feiger:<\/strong> Can I bring us to a topic that has nothing to do with AI, guys?<\/p>\n

Brian Barrett:<\/strong> Please.<\/p>\n

Zo\u00eb Schiffer:<\/strong> Wow. I didn’t know one existed, but yes, go off, queen.<\/p>\n

Brian Barrett:<\/strong> Also, I think we can probably try to find a way to tie it back in.<\/p>\n

Zo\u00eb Schiffer:<\/strong> We can. We can.<\/p>\n

Leah Feiger:<\/strong> No, absolutely not. Well, OK. This story is something that we have been thinking about, covering, looking at for a long time, but it is all about a DOGE whistleblower who just filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk. This all…<\/p>\n

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