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May 9, 2026, 9:50 AM

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Alex Lekander / CyberInsider:
EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing”  —  The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has warned that virtual private networks (VPNs) are increasingly being used …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple and Intel have reached a formal deal in recent months for Intel to manufacture some chips for Apple devices; INTC closes up 13.93%  —  The iPhone maker and U.S. silicon giant will work together on chips for Apple devices.  The Trump administration pushed for the deal.
Sam Rubin / Palo Alto Networks Blog:
Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage  —  For the last several months, we have had early, unbounded access to the latest frontier AI models.
Moneycontrol:
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable  —  On Wall Street, the announcements sounded like the next phase of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom: frontier model companies …
Bloomberg:
Sources: WH is preparing to order US agencies to partner with AI companies on cybersecurity; the EO wouldn't require pre-release model testing by the government  —  The Trump administration is preparing to order US agencies to partner with artificial intelligence companies to protect networks …
Anthropic:
Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers  —  Last year, we released a case study on agentic misalignment.  In experimental scenarios, we showed that AI models from many different …
The Information:
Source: Mistral AI and TML's founding member Devendra Chaplot, who was considered a marquee hire when he joined xAI in March, exited xAI after roughly a month  —  Cursor is already starting to make its presence known at SpaceX's AI unit, just weeks after Elon Musk's firm got an option to buy the coding startup for $60 billion.
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Associated Press:
A hack of Instructure's Canvas locked out students at schools and universities across the US in the middle of finals period; some US colleges postponed exams  —  Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage that knocked down Canvas, an online platform that manages exams …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA  —  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Tuesday that the later release 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump Media and Technology Group reports Q1 net sales up 6% YoY to $871,200 and a $405.9M net loss; DJT is down 35% so far in 2026 for a market cap of ~$2.47B  —  Trump Media and Technology Group, operator of the social media platform Truth Social, reported a massive net loss for the first three months …

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