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Bloomberg:
Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel with President Trump on his China trip, a potential setback to Nvidia; Huang expressed his willingness to join  —  The roster of business leaders invited to join President Donald Trump on his trip to China this week left off one notable …
Qasim Nauman / New York Times:
Instructure reaches a deal with the hackers who breached its Canvas edtech platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without saying what it exchanged  —  Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given …
Socket:
Many npm packages for Mistral, UiPath, and TanStack's web developer tools like react-router were compromised, likely in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack  —  - Immediate triage: Run shasum -a 256 on all router_init.js files in your dependency tree.
Etiido Uko / Tom's Hardware:
Microsoft says it is investigating a Mistral AI PyPI package v2.4.6 compromise; researchers say it is likely part of the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack  —  The malware reportedly refused to run on Russian-language systems but could execute a destructive payload under certain geographic conditions.
Bloomberg:
eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is “neither credible nor attractive”, in a letter from eBay Chairman Paul Pressler  —  EBay Inc. rejected a $56 billion takeover offer from GameStop Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen …
Financial Times:
Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets  —  In-house MeshClaw tool enables employees to delegate jobs to AI agents and climb company's AI leaderboard
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal:
AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics: Grok's paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2  —  Adoption by business and consumer users has slowed as parent SpaceX rents out spare computing capacity to rival Anthropic
Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog AI News:
OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities  —  OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon launches Amazon Now, its 30-minute delivery service, in dozens of US cities including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, after pilots  —  Amazon deliveries keep getting faster.  On Tuesday, the online retailer announced the launch of its 30-minute delivery option …
Wall Street Journal:
The US House Oversight Committee launches a probe into potential conflicts in Sam Altman's personal investments; letter: several GOP AGs call for an SEC review  —  Republican-led House Oversight Committee says it is investigating, and six GOP state attorneys general are calling for SEC review after WSJ article
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Assaf Gilead / Globes:
Source: Microsoft Israel's GM leaves after an internal probe into alleged unethical use of Azure by Israel's MOD; Microsoft France will manage Microsoft Israel  —  Alon Haimovich is leaving after an investigation into alleged unethical use of Azure by the Ministry of Defense, “Globes” has learned.
Thinking Machines Lab:
Thinking Machines Lab unveils a preview of interaction models, which can think, respond, and act in real time, letting users continuously collaborate with AI  —  Today, we're announcing a research preview of interaction models: models that handle interaction natively rather than through external scaffolding.
Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC:
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will take action against “addictive design” features on TikTok and Instagram, like “endless scrolling”  —  The EU is clamping down on social media firms and plans to target “addictive design” …
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Exaforce, which uses AI agents to detect and thwart cyberattacks, raised a $125M Series B at a $725M valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M  —  As bad actors weaponize AI to exploit software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, companies are increasingly recognizing the need to bolster their cybersecurity defenses.
Cory Weinberg / The Information:
OpenAI stands to hold ~$2.6B in combined CoreWeave and Cerebras stock that it acquired by committing to buy cloud services and chips, and to lend Cerebras money  —  Chipmaker Cerebras brought in one of the greatest pitchmen in tech, Sam Altman, to appear in a video to promote its $5.5 billion initial public offering.
Reuters:
The US DOD says it is deploying Mythos to find and patch software vulnerabilities across the US government, even as it works on a transition away from Anthropic  —  WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is deploying Anthropic's Mythos cybersecurity model to find and patch software vulnerabilities across …
More: Reuters
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Wrapped-like experience that features “never-before-shared data” going back to when users first joined Spotify  —  The company will include ‘never-before-shared data’ as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Wispr AI, the developer of the voice dictation tool Wispr Flow, is in talks to raise ~$260M in a round that could more than double its valuation to $2B  —  Wispr AI Inc., the developer behind the popular voice dictation tool Wispr Flow, is in talks to raise a new round of funding …
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 the board ousted Altman as CEO
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and social media commentary, with plans to expand to other topics; its prior reboot shut down in March after months  —  Digg is back from the dead.  Again.  —  Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose's once-popular link-sharing site shut …

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Wall Street Journal:
Brendan Carr says ABC is running a “campaign of misinformation” about the FCC inquiry into The View and the agency isn't trying to control the show's guests

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: Hasbro is asking child actors on Peppa Pig to sign contracts letting their voices be used for AI; a group of agents condemns the terms

Richard Raycraft / CBC News:
CBC/Radio-Canada becomes a full member of the European Broadcasting Union and is now eligible for Eurovision; the CBC won't yet say whether it will participate

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Courtney Rozen / Reuters:
The US Commerce Department removed details from its website about its May 5 agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to test their AI models for security flaws
Jeremy Stern / Colossus:
Q&A with Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, which hit a $445M revenue run rate in its first 18 months, on his math competition roots, the Devin coding agent, and more
David Welch / Bloomberg:
GM plans to lay off IT workers in an effort to trim costs and bring in staff with skills in other tech areas; sources say the cuts will affect 500 to 600 staff
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
GitLab announces layoffs, saying they are “not an AI optimization or cost cutting exercise”, and says it will reduce the number of countries it operates in
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta for supported carriers and on by default, new Apple Maps features, and more
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