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A college senior at Stanford describes how AI changed classes: cheating using AI “has become omnipresent” with students “fudging just about everything” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Baidu reports Q1 revenue down 1.1% YoY to ~$4.7B, above ~$4.5B est., and net profit down 55% YoY to ~$506.6M, above ~$462.5M est., amid a slow AI payoff (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Polymarket and Kalshi continue to operate in India despite a government advisory on April 25, directed at VPN providers, labeling prediction markets “illegal” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 India VPN

How Amazon, which took a measured tone to AI, went from an AI also-ran to a real contender, thanks to $200B in spending, custom AI chips, and savvy deals (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 Amazon AI

After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools (electrek.co)
2026-5-18

In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says “AI tools are great” but the flood of duplicate AI bug reports has made the security list “unmanageable” (www.theregister.com)
2026-5-18 Linux AI

A look at a new class of jobs created by AI companies, including AI storytellers or “evangelists”, forward deployed engineers, AI chiefs, and AI gig workers (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 security update install issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18 Microsoft

Companies running bug bounty programs are tightening background checks and building AI agents to triage a flood of low-quality reports generated by AI (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-5-18 AI

A look at how the AI industry's intense pressure and high rewards are creating “walls of resentment” between Silicon Valley workers and their spouses (www.wired.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Hackers earn $1,298,250 for 47 zero-days at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18 Germany

Exploit available for new DirtyDecrypt Linux root escalation flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18 Linux

Iran Now Threatens Fees for Subsea Internet Cables in the Strait of Hormuz (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-18 Iran

YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-18 AI YouTube

Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized lax industry attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-18

Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability, and performance (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-18 Microsoft

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026: participants earned a total of ~$1.3M for 47 vulnerabilities, with successful exploits of AI products like Codex, Cursor, and LM Studio (www.securityweek.com)
2026-5-18 Germany AI

Sources: Anthropic agrees to brief the Financial Stability Board on global financial system vulnerabilities found by Mythos, following a request by FSB's Chair (www.ft.com)
2026-5-18

Samsung's shares jumped as much as 6.7% after the company resumed talks with its union and a court partially granted an injunction against illegal union actions (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 Samsung

Chinese chipmaker CXMT reports Q1 revenue up 719% YoY to ~$7.5B, net profit up 1,688% to $3.6B, and says Omdia ranks it No. 4 in DRAM with a 7.67% global share (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-18 China

Sources: US authorities in recent months have issued multiple information requests to Kalshi and Polymarket, many tied to wagers on events in Iran and Venezuela (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 Iran Venezuela

Linus Torvalds: AI-Detected Bug Reports Make Kernel Security List 'Almost Entirely Unmanageable' (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-5-18 AI

Quebec-based telecom software startup Gaiia raised a CA$54.8M Series B led by JMI Equity, bringing its total funding to ~CA$90M from backers including YC (betakit.com)
2026-5-18 Startup Quebec Equity

America's Library of Congress Officially Inducts... the Soundtrack for the Videogame 'Doom' (games.slashdot.org)
2026-5-18 U.S.

A look at Apple's ongoing strategy to repurpose “binned” chips for cheaper devices; sources: Apple placed new A18 Pro orders for MacBook Neo amid its popularity (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 Apple MacBook

New York City-based GovWell, which uses AI to streamline government processes like permitting and licensing, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners (www.axios.com)
2026-5-18 AI New York

AI sales automation startup Monaco raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $85M after raising a $25M Series A in February 2026 (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-18 Startup AI

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Booed During Graduation Speech About AI (slashdot.org)
2026-5-18 Google AI

Ciridae, which is developing AI to streamline back-office operations for real-economy businesses, raised a $20M seed led by Accel, with a16z participating (fortune.com)
2026-5-18 AI

This Montessori learning app is 76% off for a lifetime subscription (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18

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