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May 23, 2026, 12:15 PM
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Sophia Cai / Politico:
A look at a copy of the AI EO that President Trump was expected to sign on May 21; the unsigned EO emphasized that government AI reviews would be voluntary  —  The draft also includes language aimed at bad actors.  It directs the attorney general to enforce the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and …
Anthropic:
Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview has been used to find more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities since the launch of Project Glasswing  —  Last month, we launched Project Glasswing, our collaborative effort to secure the world's most critical software before increasingly capable AI models can be turned against it.
Peter Wells / Financial Times:
The Trump administration plans to require most green card applicants to return to their home countries to apply, which could adversely impact tech workers  —  Move to tighten permanent residency requirements could have significant implications for businesses
New York Times:
Sources: WH approved a $9B request to acquire advanced AI chips for spy agencies; Anthropic is finalizing a classified contract for NSA to keep using its tools  —  The C.I.A. and N.S.A. cannot fully deploy the latest models on their classified systems because of a shortage of cutting-edge chips.
Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal:
The US Ambassador to Canada accuses Canada of imposing trade barriers by requiring that US streamers contribute 15% of Canadian revenue to local programming  —  Remarks from U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra add to harshly critical statements from lobby groups representing Hollywood and tech companies
Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg:
FOIA lawsuit documents show hackers who breached SolarWinds potentially had access to all “treasury.gov” email addresses from July 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020  —  New details about the 2020 incident.  —  Six years after hackers allegedly backed by Russia's intelligence services broke …
Jeremy Hsu / Ars Technica:
The US NTSB suspends access to its database of civil transportation accidents after people re-created voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash using AI  —  Pilots' voices from the last seconds of a fatal cargo plane crash have been re-created by Internet sleuths using software and AI tools.

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Financial Times:
The High Court in London rules against Prince Harry and six other claimants in the privacy lawsuit against Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sky agrees to acquire ITV's TV business for £1.6B, uniting the UK's two largest commercial broadcasters; ITV says shareholders will receive £950M from the deal

Max Tani / Semafor:
Analysis: ABC's The View hasn't featured a single candidate running in a competitive midterm race since the FCC launched an “equal time” rule probe in February

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Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised $80M from KKR's growth equity arm at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total raised to $285M
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Google files its appeal of the US federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing it “prevailed in the marketplace fair and square”

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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms including “disregard”, “ignore”, and “skip”
Scott Patterson / Bloomberg:
Sources: the SEC has delayed the release of a plan for an “innovation exemption” that would allow crypto firms to trade tokenized versions of US stocks
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Reddit stock fell 5%+ on Friday after Meta launched a standalone app for online forums, called Forum; Reddit's stock is now down almost 40% this year
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
US and Canadian authorities arrest 23-year-old Jacob Butler, known online as “Dort”, for allegedly operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet, which infected ~2M devices
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