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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.
Qasim Nauman / New York Times:
Instructure reaches a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas edtech platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without saying what it gave in return  —  Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given …
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 …
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
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
Courtney Rozen / Reuters:
The US Commerce Department removed from its website details about its May 5 agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to test their AI models  —  The U.S. Commerce Department removed details from its website about its agreement with Google, xAI and Microsoft to test their artificial intelligence models …
Washington Post:
Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and Commerce Department's CAISI are fighting over which agency should lead AI model evaluations
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  —  An afternoon with Cognition founder and nerd emperor Scott Wu … There is a familiar arc to the type of mathematical genius …
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
GitLab announces layoffs, saying they are “not an AI optimization or cost cutting exercise”, and plans to cut the number of countries it operates in  —  GitLab Inc., which makes software that helps developers on coding projects, said it is cutting jobs to free up money to spend …
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg:
Sea reports Q1 revenue up 47% YoY to $7.1B and net income up 6% YoY to $428M, both above est., after warding off rivals in Southeast Asia's e-commerce market  —  Sea Ltd. reported quarterly earnings that topped analysts' estimates after warding off rivals in Southeast Asia's competitive e …
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.
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.

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: David Ellison has asked CNN CEO Mark Thompson to stay on after the WBD acquisition closes; Thompson's current deal extends into 2027

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney plans a TV restructuring that is expected to result in more layoffs and consolidation of divisions as it pivots from linear TV toward streaming

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The UK's Independent reports 2025 revenue up 4% YoY to £55.1M, of which £13.3M is from the US and Canada, and pre-tax profit up 9% YoY to £3.5M

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@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
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
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”
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
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
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