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CEOs Want Tariff Refunds As Earnings Take a Hit (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8

Goldman Sachs: Alphabet and Amazon generated “other income” totaling $53B in Q1, or ~60% of their Q1 income; $49B was due to equity stakes in private companies (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8 Amazon Goldman Equity Alphabet

Microsoft Issues Warning About Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8 Linux Microsoft

Anthropic researchers detail natural language autoencoders, which convert LLM activations, the numbers encoding a model's thoughts, into natural language text (www.anthropic.com)
2026-5-8 NLP

Sources: OpenAI and Broadcom discuss terms for Broadcom to finance initial custom chip production for ~$18B, conditioned on Microsoft buying ~40% of the chips (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-8 Microsoft

Sources: Ramp told investors it is raising $750M co-led by Iconiq Capital and GIC at a valuation of $40B+ before the investment, up from $32B in November 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-8

EU legislators reach a deal to postpone restrictions on high-risk AI until December 2027 and to exempt the use of AI in industrial applications from the AI Act (www.politico.eu)
2026-5-8 AI

Sources: AirPods with cameras reached an advanced testing stage; the cameras will feed data to Siri to help answer questions, rather than take photos or video (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8

Google Unveils Screenless Fitbit Air, Google Health App To Replace Fitbit (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8 Google

While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training (simonwillison.net)
2026-5-8 AI

New PCPJack worm steals credentials, cleans TeamPCP infections (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8

OpenAI launches three voice models in the API: GPT-Realtime-2 with GPT-5-class reasoning, GPT-Realtime-Whisper for transcription, and GPT-Realtime-Translate (9to5mac.com)
2026-5-8

LinkedIn Profile Visitor Lists Belong to the People, Says Noyb (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8 LinkedIn

Australia warns of ClickFix attacks pushing Vidar Stealer malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8 Australia

Don't miss this Lenovo Chromebook while it's on sale for just $60 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8 Lenovo

OpenAI launches Trusted Contact, an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that lets adult users assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-8

Filing: OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky's wife assumed significant control of OnlyFans holding company Fenix in March following the death of Radvinsky (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8

Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves “the right to reclaim the compute” from Anthropic if its “AI engages in actions that harm humanity” (x.com)
2026-5-8 AI Elon Musk SpaceX

AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-8 Amazon AI Coinbase

Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8

Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-8

Anthropic Raises Claude Code Usage Limits, Credits New Deal With SpaceX (slashdot.org)
2026-5-8 SpaceX

Nova Intelligence, which is building agentic AI for SAP ahead of a 2030 migration, raised a $31.5M Series A led by Chemistry, taking its total funding to $40M+ (fortune.com)
2026-5-8 AI Intelligence

Tessera Labs, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise IT migrations and ERP transformations, raised a $60M Series A led by a16z at a $320M valuation (www.forbes.com)
2026-5-8 AI ERP

Richard Dawkins 'Convinced' AI Is Conscious (slashdot.org)
2026-5-8 AI

Interview with Rishi Chandra, Google's VP for health and home, about shutting Google Fit by year's end, the rebranded Google Health app, Health Coach, and more (www.wired.com)
2026-5-8 Google Interview

Ivanti warns of new EPMM flaw exploited in zero-day attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8

Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-8 AI Spotify

Google launches the $100 Fitbit Air, a Whoop-like screenless wearable, with Gemini-powered features like Google Health Coach, available May 26 (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-8 Google

Google rebrands Fitbit Premium as Google Health Premium, adding Gemini-powered coaching and other features, and raises its annual price from $79.99 to $99.99 (www.androidauthority.com)
2026-5-8 Google

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