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| Financial Times: |
Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products — Muse Spark ‘purpose-built’ for social media apps as investors question huge AI investment
More: Meta Newsroom, Wall Street Journal, The Information, Engadget, The Verge, Yahoo Finance, Mashable, and Sherwood News
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's “shopping mode” feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license — Meta on Wednesday debuted Muse Spark, a homegrown AI model it says significantly narrows the performance gap with models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others.
More: Meta, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reuters, Mercury News, Barron's Online, Constellation Research, and Implicator.ai. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience at a later date; META jumps 8%+ — Meta is debuting its first major artificial intelligence model since the costly hiring of Scale AI's Alexandr Wang nine months ago …
More: 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Fortune, and Quartz
| New York Times: |
An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto; Back denies the claim — One evening in the fall of 2024, my wife and I were sitting in traffic on the Long Island Expressway when …
More: BetaKit, Gizmodo, CoinDesk, TechCrunch, Decrypt, New York Post, Tom's Hardware, Fortune, Blockchain.News, CryptoSlate, New York Times, The US Sun, Crypto Briefing, Dow Jones Newswires, Dexerto, amuse on 𝕏, Bitcoin Magazine, Proactive, Telegraph, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Crypto Basic, Bitcoinist.com, MarketWatch, Bitcoin News, BBC, Cointelegraph, The Block, and New York Times
X: @adam3us, @lopp, @johncarreyrou, @adam3us, @thestalwart, @adam3us, @johncarreyrou, @adam3us, @tomwrightasia, @gavinpurcell, @louisanslow, @adam3us, @elnathan_john, @adam3us, @amitranjan, @adam3us, @pledditor, @bramk, @faisalislam, @ssaasquatch, @erikgroset, @dylfreed, @orinkerr, @j_g_allen, @chrismartz, @marcvanderchijs, @johannesboie, @lopp, @lessin, @ssaasquatch, @bymikebaker, @erikgroset, @c_kavanagh, @sudoraohacker, @nikitabier, @alexmasmej, @thestalwart, @adam3us, @thestalwart, @gbrl_dick, @florianederer, @thestalwart, @dylfreed, @btcjvs, @robertgraham, @excellion, @dylfreed, @fulligin, @dylfreed, @coincornerdanny, @dylfreed, @thestalwart, @johncarreyrou, @rupertmyers, and @pitdesi. LinkedIn: The New York Times
Bluesky: @katebevan.com, @kevincollier, @rusty.todayintabs.com, @tonytassell, and @tonytassell. Mastodon: @waldoj@mastodon.social. Forums: r/Bitcoin
| Financial Times: |
An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz — Country's oil exporters' union says toll to be paid in cryptocurrency and vessels monitored for weapons — Iran will demand that shipping …
More: Decrypt, The Block, Cointelegraph, Yahoo Finance, CoinDesk, The Hill, Financial Post, Protos, The Indian Express, CryptoSlate, Benzinga, Futurism, NewsMax.com, Bitcoin News, New York Times, and ZeroHedge News
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Buttcoin
| Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times: |
Mythos Preview's hacking ability is not a publicity stunt; sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security — Normally right now I would be writing about the geopolitical implications of the war with Iran, and I am sure I will again soon.
More: Mercury News, MediaPost, Newser, CNBC, and Anthropic
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Bluesky: @edzitron.com and @renrut-mas
Forums: r/ControlProblem, r/ClaudeAI, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: |
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
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Forums: r/Anthropic and r/Slovakia
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
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X: @apompliano, @deedydas, @yuchenj_uw, @fabknowledge, @fabknowledge, @mweinbach, @yuchenj_uw, @neilhtennek, and @kimmonismus. Bluesky: @jjvincent. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
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| Anthropic: |
More: Cisco Blogs, The Register, Telegraph, PC Gamer, The Next Web, Forbes, Axios, Tomasz Tunguz, WinBuzzer, CoinDesk, Tom's Hardware, Implicator.ai, Embrace The Red, crypto.news, Hyperdimensional, Cryip, Shelly Palmer, and Help Net Security
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Isaac Evans, Rich Mogull, Rogier Fischer, David Seidman, and Ethan Mollick
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Forums: Hacker News, r/hacking, r/singularity, r/programare, r/openbsd, r/accelerate, and Lobsters
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K+ men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing — In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.
More: AI Forensics, The Decoder, Gadget Review, and The Economic Times
Bluesky: @couts, @aiforensics.org, @aiforensics.org, @aiforensics.org, @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com, and @aiforensics.org. Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/anime_titties, r/pwnhub, r/TrueReddit, and Beehaw
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Patreon says it now has 7.6M paid podcast memberships and revenue generated by podcasters on the platform hit $629M in 2025, up 33% YoY — On Patreon, podcasts have become the largest content category in terms of revenue and they've continued their upward trajectory, says chief operating officer Paige Fitzgerald.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
FBI: US victims lost nearly $21B to cybercrime in 2025, up 26% YoY, driven by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches — U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise …
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| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Source: Meta shutters an internal, employee-built leaderboard, dubbed Claudeonomics, tracking staff token usage, due to the data “being shared externally” — Meta Platforms has taken down an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking how many tokens staffers were using.
X: @jyoti_mann1, @gergelyorosz, and @hussain_joe
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
AWS debuts Amazon S3 Files, a new capability built on Amazon's Elastic File System that lets applications and AI agents access S3 buckets as local file systems — Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system …
More: Last Week in AWS, Amazon Web Services, CIO.com, Amazon Web Services, Implicator.ai, The Stack, and Cyber Security News
X: @livingdevops, @neural_avb, and @twtayaan
LinkedIn: Darryl R., Saurabh Pal, Amazon Web Services, and Steve Tilkens
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Alibaba and China Telecom launch a data center in southern China that is powered by 10,000 of Alibaba's Zhenwu chips designed for AI training and inferencing — Alibaba and China Telecom are launching a data center in southern China powered by the e-commerce giant's own chips … | Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read — Starting May 20th, Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't have access to the Kindle Store.
More: Ars Technica, ZDNET, The Register, How-To Geek, HotHardware, Wired, Thurrott, Mirror, The Independent, Android Authority, Mashable, Lifehacker Australia tech, TechRadar, Cord Cutters News, PhoneArena, PCMag, Neowin, Tech Times, Good e-Reader, Business Standard, Pocket-lint, and T3
Forums: r/kindle and Ars OpenForum
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X rolls out automatic post translation worldwide, powered by xAI's Grok, and updates its iOS image editor with features like drawing, text tools, and blurring — Social media platform X is now rolling out a new feature that automatically translates posts. The company is also launching …
More: Digital Trends, Tech Times, Livemint, and Ghacks
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements involving reserve assets, after the GENIUS Act — Quick Take — The FDIC voted to propose a rule that would set forth standards for stablecoin issuers, including requirements involving reserve assets.
More: The White House, FDIC, CoinDesk, Blockonomi, CryptoNinjas, The Crypto Basic, Cryip, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, Decrypt, and CoinDesk
X: @chadsteingraber and @fdicgov
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro, available under an MIT license — Is China picking back up the open source AI baton? — Z.ai, also known as Zhupai AI, a Chinese AI startup best known for its powerful …
More: Z.ai, Z.ai on Hugging Face, South China Morning Post, Sherwood News, The Rundown AI, MarkTechPost, Constellation Research, Implicator.ai, and TestingCatalog
X: @louszbd, @simonw, @iterintellectus, @zaiforstartups, @zixuanli_, @yuchenj_uw, @arena, @vllm_project, @kimmonismus, @ollama, @theahmadosman, @zephyr_z9, @ai_for_success, @erikvoorhees, @cryptopunk7213, @arena, @deryatr_, @clementdelangue, @eliebakouch, @zai_org, @zai_org, @zai_org, and @zai_org
LinkedIn: Z.ai, Sebastian Ma, and Asif Razzaq
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Nikkei Asia: |
RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation — PALO ALTO, California — The true impact of artificial intelligence on employment is yet to be felt even as the global tech … | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting — In response to escalating concerns about child safety online, OpenAI has unveiled a blueprint to enhance U.S. child protection efforts amid the AI boom.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: Perplexity's estimated ARR rose to $450M+ in March, jumping 50% in a month after the launch of its Computer agent and its shift to usage-based pricing — San Francisco-based start-up surges from push into more complex and potentially more lucrative AI services
More: Proactive and The Economic Times
X: @adxtyahq, @codewithimanshu, @eeelistar, and @jayminsofficial
| Melia Russell / Business Insider: |
New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire — Follow Melia Russell … - Patlytics builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation.
More: Artificial Lawyer, AlleyWatch, Patlytics, LAW.com, FinSMEs, Business Wire, Bloomberg Law, and citybiz
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Memo: Alibaba Cloud CTO Jingren Zhou will step down as CTO to focus on leading AI models in the new role of chief AI architect; executive Feifei Li becomes CTO — Alibaba Group senior executive Jingren Zhou, who is in charge of AI model development, will stop serving as Alibaba Cloud's chief …
More: South China Morning Post
| Jude Joffe-Block / NPR: |
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