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May 6, 2026, 4:05 AM

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Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the “revenue backlog” Google disclosed last week  —  When Google last month said it would supply Anthropic with an astonishing five gigawatts of server capacity …
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates  —  Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates …
Reuters:
AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $10.25B, above $9.89B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ pre-market  —  Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, helped by keen demand …
Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram  —  Meta Platforms is building a consumer version of the AI agent OpenClaw and a new agentic shopping tool, people familiar with the efforts said …
OpenAI:
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 Instant, which it says is smarter, with more accurate and personalized responses, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant as ChatGPT's default model  —  We're updating ChatGPT's default model, available to everyone, to be smarter and more accurate, with clearer, more concise answers that feel better tailored to you.
Bloomberg:
Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testified about tense negotiations with Musk in 2017, saying “he knows rockets, he knows electric cars” but “does not know AI”  —  OpenAI President Greg Brockman testified that Elon Musk called a ChatGPT predecessor “stupid,” …
Reuters:
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying “AI is changing how we work”  —  Coinbase (COIN.O) said on Tuesday it will cut about 700 jobs, or about 14% of its global workforce …
Lola Murti / CNBC:
Micron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-capacity SSD has started to ship, lifting its market cap past $700B for the first time; Sandisk closes up 12%  —  Micron's historic rally continued on Tuesday, with shares of the memory maker surging 11%, lifting the company's market cap past $700 billion for the first time.
More: Barron's OnlineForums: Hacker News
Bloomberg:
Sources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denominated bonds, raising €9B, and its first Canadian dollar notes, raising CA$8.5B, months after raising $20B  —  Alphabet Inc. needs to borrow heavily to fund investments in artificial intelligence, and it's increasingly tapping every market to do so.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to let users choose from multiple third-party AI models to perform tasks like generating and editing text and images in iOS 27  —  Apple Inc. will let users choose from a range of outside artificial intelligence services to power features across its software …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the group's leadership, including bringing over executives from Microsoft's CoreAI engineering unit where she worked before  —  Microsoft Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees in a Tuesday memo that she's appointing new leaders, as the software company looks to return its video game unit to growth.
Emil Ryd / @emilaryd:
Study: using weaker AI models to supervise a more capable model could prevent the stronger model from deliberately underperforming on benchmarks and evaluations  —  New paper from MATS, Redwood, and Anthropic! If a capable model is strategically sandbagging, can we train it to stop when the only supervision we have comes from weaker models? We find that we can! Work done as part of the Anthropic-Redwood MATS stream. [image]
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters:
CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026  —  Freshworks (FRSH.O) said on Tuesday it would cut 11% of its workforce, or about 500 jobs, as the business-software company navigates …
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being  —  Cellphone bans got devices out of students' hands, according to the first large study.  But behavior and academics have not improved, at least so far.
Todd Feathers / Wired:
A medical student reverse-engineered AI tools used by medical colleges on suspicion they were filtering his applications, highlighting AI-driven hiring concerns  —  Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.
Forums: r/medicalschool
Sara Fischer / Axios:
OpenAI rolls out a beta version of its new Ads Manager tool to advertisers in the US, making it easier for SMBs to buy ChatGPT ads on a cost-per-click basis  —  OpenAI has launched a self-serve advertising platform, executives said, marking a significant step in its goal of generating $2.5 billion …
Financial Times:
DefiLlama: investors pulled ~$14B from the DeFi sector after North Korea-linked hackers stole $290M from Aave in April, weeks after stealing $280M from Drift  —  DeFi was once touted as the future of finance but traders have grown concerned over the security of these projects

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