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DefiLlama: investors pulled ~$14B from the DeFi sector after North Korea-linked hackers stole $290M from Aave in April, weeks after stealing $280M from Drift (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 Korea

CO2 Levels In the Atmosphere Hit 'Depressing' New Record (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6

A medical student reverse-engineered AI tools used by medical colleges on suspicion they were filtering his applications, highlighting AI-driven hiring concerns (www.wired.com)
2026-5-6 AI

Study: using weaker AI models to supervise a more capable model could prevent the stronger model from deliberately underperforming on benchmarks and evaluations (x.com)
2026-5-6 AI

Sources: the Big Fund, China's biggest state-backed chip investment fund, is seeking to lead an investment in DeepSeek that could value the AI company at ~$45B (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 China AI

The delayed IPO of Visma, an accounting software company valued at €19B, amid SaaSpocalypse fears, is a major setback for PE parent Hg, a software buyout giant (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 IPO

Infineon expects data center revenue to grow from €1.5B in FY2026 to €2.5B in FY2027, as it and EU peers STMicro and NXP benefit from AI infrastructure demand (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 AI

Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-6 AI

Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-6

Sources: Blue Origin outlines a new employee stock plan to quell staff unrest and make its incentives more competitive with SpaceX (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 SpaceX

Brockman Rebuts Musk's Take On Startup's History, Recounts Secret Work For Tesla (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 Startup Tesla

Germany-based eleQtron, which develops trapped-ion quantum computing processors using proprietary tech, raised a €57M Series A led by Schwarz Digits (tech.eu)
2026-5-6 Germany Quantum

Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 (x.com)
2026-5-6 Google AI Chrome Google I/O

Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-6 AI Alphabet

Nace.AI, which lets companies build specialized AI models tailored to their business' mission and language, raised a $21.5M seed led by Walden Catalyst (www.axios.com)
2026-5-6 AI

Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $8.5B and a net loss of $266M following a 2025 Korean customer data breach, its largest loss since Q4 2021 (www.koreaherald.com)
2026-5-6 Korea 4Q

CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-6 AI CRM

US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-6 AI Unemployment Republican

Samsung reaches a $1T valuation, making it only the second Asian company after TSMC to hit the mark, after its stock rose 4x+ over the past year on the AI boom (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 Samsung AI

Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-6 Google

Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs (fortune.com)
2026-5-6 NLP

Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from “interfering” with the government's use of models (www.politico.com)
2026-5-6 AI EOS

Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-6 Instagram

Apple Agrees To Pay iPhone Owners $250 Million For Not Delivering AI Siri (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 iPhone AI Apple

Sources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denominated bonds, raising €9B, and its first Canadian dollar notes, raising CA$8.5B, months after raising $20B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 Canada Alphabet

Coinbase Lays Off Nearly 700 Workers In 'AI-Native' Restructuring (slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 AI Coinbase

Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates (arstechnica.com)
2026-5-6

New stealthy Quasar Linux malware targets software developers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6 Linux

EA reports Q4 net bookings up 3.6% YoY to $1.86B, vs. $2B est., weighed down by a post-launch drop-off in engagement for Battlefield 6 (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-6 4Q

Micron closes up 11% after announcing its highest-capacity SSD has started to ship, lifting its market cap past $700B for the first time; Sandisk closes up 12% (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-6

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