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May 14, 2026, 4:42 AM

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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $15.84B, above $15.56B est., raises its FY2026 AI orders forecast, and is cutting ~4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps 19%+ pre-market  —  Cisco shares soared 17% in extended trading on Wednesday after the networking company issued results and guidance that topped Wall Street's projections.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Anthropic unveils Claude Agent SDK credits for paid plans, which users can allocate for programmatic use of third-party agents like OpenClaw, starting June 15  —  Good news, OpenClaw fans — you can once again use your Claude AI subscription to power the hit, open source, autonomous AI agentic harness!
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Cerebras prices its IPO at $185 per share, above the expected range of $150 to $160 per share, raising at least $5.55B and valuing it at $56.4B fully diluted  —  Cerebras Systems, a maker of artificial intelligence chips, priced its IPO at $185 a share on Wednesday, above the expected range …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
AI Security Institute:
Mythos Preview is the first AI model to complete both of the AISI's cyber ranges, which measure AI models' cyberattack capabilities; GPT-5.5 solved only one  —  In February 2026, we internally estimated that the length of cyber tasks AI models could complete had doubled every 4.7 months since late 2024 …
Kenrick Cai / Reuters:
Musk v. Altman filing: Sam Altman holds $2B+ in stakes in companies that have done business with OpenAI, including a $1.7B stake in fusion startup Helion Energy  —  OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman holds more than $2 billion in companies that have done business with the artificial intelligence company …
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Reuters:
LinkedIn says it has “implemented organizational changes”; a source says it plans to cut ~5% of its 17,500 full-time workers and focus on business growth areas  —  LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a widening of technology sector cuts this year.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others  —  TikTok announced on Tuesday that it's launching TikTok GO, a way for users to discover and book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly within its app.
Gyana Swain / CSO:
Microsoft unveils MDASH, a security system that orchestrates 100+ AI agents to find vulnerabilities, and says it identified 16 previously unknown Windows flaws  —  The agentic tool, codenamed MDASH, will open to enterprise customers in private preview in June.
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, featuring a host of automated services like bookkeeping functions, business insights, and tools for ad campaigns  —  Anthropic is looking to court smaller companies.  To that end, the company announced Wednesday the launch of Claude for Small Business …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Netflix says its ad tier now has 250M monthly active viewers, up from 94M in 2025, and is expanding to 15 new countries, as it tests an ad personalization tool  —  The streaming service's ad-supported tier now reaches 250 million viewers each month. … For the second year in a row …
Reuters:
Sources: Microsoft is in discussions to acquire LLM developer Inception; SpaceX also courted Inception, which is looking for a price of over $1B  —  Microsoft (MSFT.O) is shopping for artificial-intelligence startups as the software company prepares for a future independent of its once-vital partner OpenAI …
Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal:
ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1%  —  Layoffs keep coming but there's still a market for higher-grade talent to harness agents  —  It should be a tough …
Invest Like The Best on YouTube:
Q&A with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao on the “cone of uncertainty” in AI, allocating compute, returns to frontier intelligence, platform vs. application, and more  —  In this episode of Invest Like The Best, Patrick O'Shaughnessy sits down with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Instagram rolls out Instants, which lets users share ephemeral photos, as an in-app feature and as a standalone Android and iOS app in select countries  —  Meta just launched a brand new iPhone app called Instants.  Built around ephemeral photo sharing, the new social media app is also the latest Instagram feature.
Nikkei Asia:
LY Corp launches a bid with Bain Capital to buy Kakaku.com, which operates restaurant review and booking site Tabelog, for $4B, challenging EQT's $3.75B offer  —  TOKYO — The operator of the Line messaging app and web portal Yahoo Japan said on Thursday it has launched a counterbid for Japan's Kakaku.com …
More: Reuters
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg:
Riyadh-based Stitch, which develops software for banks and financial services companies, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, its first investment in the Gulf  —  Andreessen Horowitz is making its first investment in the Gulf with a fundraise for a Saudi startup, as investors continue to sign deals despite the US-Israel war on Iran.
More: Wamda and a16z
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Canadian legaltech company Clio says its ARR has reached $500M, citing demand for its AI tools; Clio had a $5B valuation after a $500M Series G in November 2025  —  While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has yet been nearly as popular or lucrative as code writing.
Kenza Bryan / Financial Times:
Sources: climate watchdog SBTi drops proposed rules that would limit tech companies' claims that gas-fueled data centers are covered by clean energy investments  —  Corporate climate watchdog drops stricter proposal on net zero claims after heavy lobbying  —  Tech groups including Meta …

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