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May 13, 2026, 11:50 PM
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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $15.84B, vs. $15.56B est., raises its FY 2026 AI orders forecast, and is cutting ~4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps 19%+ after hours  —  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!
Reuters:
LinkedIn says it has “implemented organizational changes”; source: LinkedIn 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.
AI Security Institute:
Mythos Preview is the first AI model to complete both of AISI's cyber ranges, which measure models' cyberattack capabilities; GPT-5.5 solved only one of them  —  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 …
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.
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.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Microsoft updates Edge with new AI features, including letting Copilot gather information from open tabs and use browsing history for more relevant answers  —  The new features include AI podcasts, summaries, and quizzes based on what you're browsing.
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 …
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.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Meta debuts Incognito Chat in WhatsApp and the Meta AI app, letting users talk to Meta AI without Meta being able to access the conversations  —  The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations.
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 …
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 …
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Amazon is replacing its Rufus AI shopping assistant with Alexa for Shopping, which is powered by Alexa+, on Amazon.com and its app, for all customers in the US  —  The company is giving its AI-powered assistant special shopping skills on its website and app.
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley, and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI's finance sector push, but financiers are rarely using it for work  —  Elon Musk's xAI has recruited multiple Wall Street firms with ties to the billionaire's business empire to test its Grok chatbot …
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Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
Adaption, co-founded by ex-Cohere VP of AI research Sara Hooker, unveils AutoScientist, which can automate the research loop behind model training and alignment  —  For years, AI researchers have anticipated the moment when AI systems will be able to improve themselves better than humans could.
Alex Heath / Sources:
Sources: Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its I/O conference next week; the model will land roughly in the class of GPT-5.5, but short of Mythos  —  Sources say that Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its annual I/O conference on Tuesday.
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 …
Bloomberg:
Musk v. Altman: Microsoft executive Michael Wetter testifies that Microsoft has spent $100B+ on OpenAI, including its investments and to build infrastructure  —  Microsoft Corp. has spent more than $100 billion on its partnership with OpenAI, a sum that underscores the significance …
Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal:
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's Mind Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots for manufacturing tasks, raised $400M, source says at a $3.4B valuation  —  Funding for AI-powered industrial robot project now exceeds $1 billion  —  Mind Robotics, the startup founded by Rivian Chief Executive RJ Scaringe …
Ashlee Vance / Core Memory:
Q&A with Alexandr Wang on rebuilding Meta's AI stack, Muse Spark, personal superintelligence, Meta acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence, Sam Altman, and more  —  Last June, Meta pried Alex Wang away from Scale AI, the company he co-founded and ran, in a deal valued at $14 billion.

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New York Times:
Sources: CNN CEO Mark Thompson told Paramount he would not share oversight of CNN with another exec, as David Ellison weighs whether to put Bari Weiss in charge

Emily Dreyfuss / The San Francisco Standard:
An interview with Brian Stelter about the Murdoch family's moves to boost their political influence in California, including the launch of the California Post

Ryan McGrady / The Conversation:
An analysis of 20M blocks of users of English language Wikipedia shows a shrinking number of administrators relying on more-frequent blocks, to raise efficiency

More News

OpenAI Global Affairs:
OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act and Illinois SB 315, an AI safety bill to establish requirements around transparency, incident reporting, and more
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Investor docs: Anthropic's revenue run rate is on track to hit $50B by the end of June; Ramp says more of its customers now use Anthropic than OpenAI, a first
Michelle Del Rey / USA Today:
Trump Mobile says T1 Phone preorders will begin shipping to customers this week and that the first T1 phones were assembled in the US, after months of delays

Earlier Picks

New York Times:
Analysis: a16z is the largest known donor in the current US midterm election cycle, spending $115.5M so far on pro-crypto, pro-AI, and Republican Super PACs
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google says Chromebooks will get support through their “existing date commitment”, and “many” models are “eligible to transition” to the Googlebook experience
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Anduril raised a $5B Series H led by Thrive and a16z at a $61B valuation, up from $30.5B in June 2025, taking its total funding to $6.82B, and could IPO in 2027
CNBC:
Nvidia says Jensen Huang has joined President Trump on his China trip; source: Trump called Huang to ask him to join after seeing media coverage of his absence
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