Tech

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

Americans sentenced for running 'laptop farms' for North Korea (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8 U.S. Korea

The Browser Is Breaking Your DLP: How Data Slips Past Modern Controls (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8 Browser

Cologne-based AI translation startup DeepL plans to cut ~25% of its workforce, or ~250 staff, saying adapting to AI “means fewer layers” and “faster decisions” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-7 Startup AI

Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5, its first model, which can control robotic hands that it designed in-house to do tasks like cooking (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-7 Startup AI Robot

Kraken parent Payward agrees to buy Hong Kong-based Reap, which connects financial systems with digital assets, for $600M, and issues stock at a $20B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-7 Hong Kong Asset

Kalshi raised $1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, its third round in seven months after raising $1B and $300M+, and hits $178B in annualized trading volume (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-7

Crypto gang member gets 6.5 years for role in $230 million heist (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-7

Webinar: Why modern attacks require both security and recovery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-7

Major Homebuilder To Test Placing Mini Data Centers in Suburban Backyards (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-7

Researchers: 5K+ web apps built using AI coding tools like Lovable, Base44, and Replit had little to no authentication, and ~40% of them exposed sensitive data (www.wired.com)
2026-5-7 AI

MediaTek launches the first phase of its Taiwan data center, aimed at R&D, powered by Nvidia's B200 platform, and built on Nvidia's DGX SuperPOD infrastructure (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-7 Taiwan Nvidia

Anthropic's SpaceX deal helps it address a severe compute deficit and comes amid Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit; Grok never grew to utilize xAI's Colossus 1 (www.axios.com)
2026-5-7 Elon Musk SpaceX

This $80 lifetime AI deal combines all of your subscriptions in one plan (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-7 AI

Samsung says it is ceasing sales of TVs and appliances in China amid fierce competition from local brands; Samsung's TV and appliance unit lost ~$138M in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-7 China Samsung

How lidar and other tech developed for autonomous vehicles is now used in smart city systems, in-home elder care services, and major shipyards like Rotterdam (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-7 Autonomous Car

UK-based Quantum Motion, which builds quantum computers on silicon chips, raised a $160M Series C; EU-backed growth fund Kembara made its first investment (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-7 Quantum

Palo Alto Networks firewall zero-day exploited for nearly a month (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-7

Source: Samsung offered to allocate ~13% of operating profit to chip division staff; unions threaten an 18-day walkout, seeking a 15% share and a 7% wage hike (www.ft.com)
2026-5-7 Samsung

Specialist chipmaker Silex raised ~$220M in a Stockholm IPO and jumps nearly 160% in trading, the strongest open for a sizable European IPO in almost five years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-7 Europe IPO

At Anthropic's developer conference, Dario Amodei says the company could grow by 80x in 2026, and its growth rate is “crazy” and “too hard to handle” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-7

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