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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

Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and social media commentary, with plans to expand to other topics; its previous reboot shut down in March (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-12 AI

GM agrees to $12.75M California settlement over sale of drivers' data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-12 California

GitLab announces layoffs, saying they are “not an AI optimization or cost cutting exercise”, and plans to cut the number of countries it operates in (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-12 AI Layoffs

Official CheckMarx Jenkins package compromised with infostealer (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-12

New GhostLock tool abuses Windows API to block file access (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-12

CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-12 Nvidia

Anthropic's Bug-Hunting Mythos Was Greatest Marketing Stunt Ever, Says cURL Creator (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-12

Musk v. Altman: Satya Nadella says Elon Musk never contacted him with concerns that Microsoft's investments in OpenAI violated any special terms or commitments (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-12 Microsoft Elon Musk

GM Cutting Hundreds of Salaried IT Workers As It Trims Costs, Evaluates Needs (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-12

Musk v. Altman: Ilya Sutskever testifies that his OpenAI stake is worth ~$7B and he had concerns about Altman for a year before Altman's brief ouster as CEO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-12

Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and Commerce Department's CAISI are fighting over which agency should lead AI model evaluations (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-5-12 AI

Google's TIG says it has likely thwarted efforts to use AI for a “mass exploitation event” and warns that tools like OpenClaw are being used to find exploits (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-12 Google AI

iPhone-Android RCS Conversations Are End-To-End Encrypted In iOS 26.5 (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-12 Android IOS iPhone

An Anthropic engineer argues HTML is a better output format for AI agents than Markdown, citing information density, ease of sharing, and two-way interaction (x.com)
2026-5-12 AI

Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the 'Next Industrial Revolution' (slashdot.org)
2026-5-12 AI

Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default (9to5mac.com)
2026-5-12 IOS Apple

Google Says Hackers Used AI To Create Zero Day Security Flaw For the First Time (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-12 Google AI

Sources: German defense tech startup Helsing is set to raise $1.2B led by Dragoneer and Lightspeed at a valuation of about $18B, up from $14B in June 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-5-12 Germany Startup

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Netflix for allegedly spying on consumers by collecting their data without consent, and designing its platform to be addictive (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-12 Netflix Texas

curl founder Daniel Stenberg says Mythos identified five vulnerabilities in curl, but a manual review found three were false positives and one was “just a bug” (daniel.haxx.se)
2026-5-12

Apple Now Requires Verification For Education Store (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-5-12 Apple Education

Instructure confirms hackers used Canvas flaw to deface portals (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-12

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