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May 11, 2026, 8:05 PM
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Dustin Volz / New York Times:
Google's TIG reports the first known example of hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day; TIG's chief analyst says “this is the tip of the iceberg”  —  The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug.
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Google's TIG says it likely thwarted the use of an AI-generated zero-day in a “mass exploitation event” and tools like OpenClaw are being used to find exploits  —  Google's Threat Intelligence Group said in a report on Monday that it thwarted an effort by hackers …
Reuters:
OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with a $4B+ investment to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, and acquires AI consulting firm Tomoro  —  OpenAI said on Monday it is setting up a new company with more than $4 billion in initial investment to help organizations build …
CNBC:
Musk v. Altman: Satya Nadella says Elon Musk never contacted him with concerns that Microsoft's investments in OpenAI violated any special terms or commitments  —  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stand in the Musk v. Altman trial on Monday, where he testified that Elon Musk never contacted …
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Musk v. Altman: Ilya Sutskever testifies that his OpenAI stake is worth ~$7B and he had concerns about Altman for a year before Altman's brief ouster as CEO
Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog AI News:
OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities  —  OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default  —  iOS 26.5 is now available to everyone after six weeks of beta testing.  The update adds fresh wallpapers, new features to Apple Maps, and more.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Netflix for allegedly spying on consumers by collecting their data without consent, and designing its platform to be addictive  —  Netflix (NFLX.O) was sued on Monday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused the streaming company of spying on consumers …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and social media commentary, with plans to expand to other topics; its previous reboot shut down in March  —  Digg is back from the dead.  Again.  —  Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose's once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March, as the company shifted course.
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Circle raised $222M via the presale of its native Arc token at a $3B valuation; a16z led with a $75M investment, with participation from BlackRock and others  —  Circle Internet Group has raised $222 million in the presale of Arc, the native token of its new blockchain …
Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se:
curl founder Daniel Stenberg says Mythos identified five vulnerabilities in curl, but a manual review found three were false positives and one was “just a bug”  —  yes, as in singular one.  —  Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded …
@trq212:
An Anthropic engineer argues HTML is a better output format for AI agents than Markdown, citing information density, ease of sharing, and two-way interaction  —  Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML
Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg:
SEC filing: Cerebras upsizes its IPO to 30M shares at $150-$160 each, up from 28M shares at $115-$125, aiming to raise up to $4.8B at an up to $34.4B valuation  —  Cerebras Systems Inc. increased the size of its initial public offering, now seeking to raise as much as $4.8 billion …
Sean Keach / The Sun:
TikTok is rolling out TikTok Ad-Free, a £3.99-per-month subscription for UK accounts aged 18 or older “over the coming months”, after testing the option in 2023  —  You can update your preferences at any time, and it's always possible to switch back to the free version of the app.
Lucinda Shen / Axios:
Source: Robinhood has filed confidentially for its second publicly traded venture fund, Robinhood Venture Fund II, focusing on early-stage startups  —  Robinhood has filed confidentially for its second publicly traded venture fund, roughly two months after taking its first one to market, Axios Pro has learned.
Thinking Machines Lab:
Thinking Machines Lab details interaction models, which can think and respond in real time, letting users and AI interact continuously for better collaboration  —  Today, we're announcing a research preview of interaction models: models that handle interaction natively rather than through external scaffolding.
Socket:
Several npm packages for the TanStack web development tools were compromised in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack; Mistral packages were also affected  —  - Immediate triage: Run shasum -a 256 on all router_init.js files in your dependency tree.

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Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
Sources: the EU is set to approve Paramount's $111B WBD takeover provided the company accepts certain remedies, the details of which are still being worked out

New York Times:
A profile of NFL reporter Dianna Russini, who resigned from The Athletic after photos of her with the coach of New England Patriots prompted an internal probe

Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sony Pictures Entertainment invests $100M in Cosm, a startup specializing in immersive, large-screen theaters, which has partnerships with NBCUniversal and WBD

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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
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Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Microsoft's Playground Games says the Forza Horizon 6 leak was not caused by a preload issue and it's taking action against anyone accessing the leaked build

Earlier Picks

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Dua Lipa files a $15M lawsuit against Samsung in California, alleging it used her likeness to sell TVs without paying her and without permission from 2025
Himanshu Anand:
The 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is dead, as LLMs compress bug finding and exploit development time, and critical issues must be patched immediately
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI let 600+ current and former employees sell their shares in a $6.6B secondary sale in October 2025; ~75 people cashed out the maximum cap of $30M
CNBC:
Nvidia embraces the AI investor role in 2026, already making $40B+ in equity commitments so far, including $30B in OpenAI, $3.2B in Corning, and $2.1B in IREN
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