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Get rid of unwanted ads with AdGuard, now $11 through 5/17 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-12

JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $46.5B, above ~$45.8B est., and adjusted net profit down 42% YoY to $1B, amid a fierce food delivery battle in China (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-12 China

YouTube is shifting its creator monetization strategy by acting as a matchmaker between creators and sponsors, as Netflix and TikTok increasingly woo creators (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-12 YouTube Netflix

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will take action against “addictive design” on TikTok and Instagram, including “endless scrolling” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-12 Instagram

Sources: Anthropic officials refused a Chinese think tank's request to change its stance and allow Beijing to access Mythos at a meeting in Singapore last month (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-12 China Singapore

eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is “neither credible nor attractive”, in a letter from eBay Chairman Paul Pressler (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-12 eBay

Amp, which aims to buy excess computing capacity from data center operators to sell to startups, universities, and more, raised $1.3B from a16z and others (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-12 Startup

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-12 Trump China Nvidia

Sources: the Trump administration is quietly debating whether to ban Chinese “cellular modules”, as the US FCC pushes measures to reduce Beijing's threats (www.ft.com)
2026-5-12 Trump China Ban

Human Rights Watch: at least six EU member states, including Bulgaria and Denmark, have sold surveillance tech to 24+ countries known for violating human rights (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-12

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 (en.globes.co.il)
2026-5-12 France Israel Microsoft

Instructure reaches 'agreement' with ShinyHunters to stop data leak (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-12

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Testifies In OpenAI Trial (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-12 Microsoft

A Hollywood writer recounts working as an “AI trainer” for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the “new waiting tables” for entertainment workers (www.wired.com)
2026-5-12 AI

Top 10 Famous Minds Changed by Psychedelics (listverse.com)
2026-5-12

Instructure reached a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without disclosing what it gave in exchange (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-12

Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets (www.ft.com)
2026-5-12 Amazon AI

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 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-12 Republican

A Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons of Water Unnoticed (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-12

AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics says Grok paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-12

Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI's payments to Microsoft at $38B; they previously could have totaled $135B through 2030 if long-term goals were met (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-12 Microsoft

10 Little-Known Unsettling Urban Legends (listverse.com)
2026-5-12

The US Commerce Department removed from its website details about its May 5 agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to test their AI models (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-12 Google Microsoft AI

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 AI coding agent, more (colossus.com)
2026-5-12 AI Mathematics

Several npm packages for the TanStack web development tools were compromised in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack; Mistral packages were also affected (socket.dev)
2026-5-12

GM plans to lay off IT workers in an effort to trim costs and bring in staff with skills in other tech areas; sources: the cuts will affect 500 to 600 employees (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-12

OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities (www.testingcatalog.com)
2026-5-12 AI

Thinking Machines Lab details interaction models, which can think and respond in real time, letting users and AI interact continuously for better collaboration (thinkingmachines.ai)
2026-5-12 AI

Digg Tries Again, This Time As an AI News Aggregator (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-12 AI

Source: Robinhood has filed confidentially for its second publicly traded venture fund, Robinhood Venture Fund II, focusing on early-stage startups (www.axios.com)
2026-5-12 Startup

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