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Former Trump and Biden AI advisers Dean Ball and Ben Buchanan urge bipartisan action on AI security risks, including tighter export controls and safety audits (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-5 Trump AI

Why there is a 60%+ chance of AI systems autonomously building their own successors by the end of 2028, and a look at the consequences of fully automated AI R&D (importai.substack.com)
2026-5-5 AI

Anthropic Nears $1.5 Billion AI Joint Venture With Wall Street Firms (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-5 AI Wall Street

Sources: Apple prepares a “Create a Pass” feature for iOS 27, which lets users take a QR code and generate a custom pass around it for concerts and other venues (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 IOS Apple

Intel taps Alex Katouzian, an ex-Qualcomm EVP, to lead Client Computing & Physical AI group, and names Pushkar Ranade as CTO, after serving on an interim basis (www.crn.com)
2026-5-5 Intel AI

Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familiar Machines & Magic and unveils Familiar, a dog-like, “emotionally intelligent” robot that reacts to owner's feelings (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-5 Robot

GameStop Offers to Buy eBay for $56 Billion (slashdot.org)
2026-5-5 eBay

Backdoored PyTorch Lightning package drops credential stealer (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Cisco agrees to acquire Astrix Security, which helps companies monitor and control the permissions granted to AI agents, a source says for approximately $400M (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-5-5 AI Cisco

Filing: Blackstone's data center acquisition vehicle seeks to raise as much as $1.75B in its IPO, and will target newly built data centers valued at $250M-$1.5B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 IPO

Sources: more than two dozen prediction-market ETFs have been pushed back as the SEC seeks more information; they were originally expected to launch this week (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-5 ETF

Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to companies like Meta, TikTok, Google (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Google Insurance

Trellix discloses data breach after source code repository hack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Infrasound Waves Stop Kitchen Fires, But Can They Replace Sprinklers? (science.slashdot.org)
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Scientists Discover 27 Potential New Planets That Orbit Two Stars (science.slashdot.org)
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Inside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state power (nymag.com)
2026-5-5 AI

Investment and tech firm Long Lake says it will buy corporate travel operator Amex GBT for $6.3B, citing AI's ability to modernize the business travel sector (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-5 AI

How “emotion AI”, the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-5-5 AI

Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised $140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a $1B valuation (www.ft.com)
2026-5-5 Energy

SAP to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse provider, and Prior Labs, which it pledges to invest €1B in over four years, hoping to create a frontier AI lab (www.constellationr.com)
2026-5-5 AI

Anthropic announces a JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman that aims to sell AI tools to companies; sources: the JV is worth ~$1.5B (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-5 AI Goldman

Bret Taylor's Sierra, which sells AI customer service agents, raised a $950M Series E led by Tiger and GV at a $15.8B post-money valuation, up from $10B in 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-5 AI

Katie Haun raises $1B for two funds split between early and later-stage investments, looking at startups blending financial services, AI, and alternative assets (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Startup AI Asset

Trump's World Liberty Financial countersues Tron founder Justin Sun, alleging defamation, contract violations, and more (fortune.com)
2026-5-5 Trump

The jury-less bench trial phase of Meta's child safety case in NM begins today to determine if Meta's actions were a public nuisance and warrant product changes (www.cnbc.com)
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eBay's stock jumps 6%+ to ~$111, below GameStop's $125/share acquisition offer, in a sign investors see hurdles to completing a deal; GameStop's stock drops ~4% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-4 eBay

They don't hack, they borrow: How fraudsters target credit unions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Filing: Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman about settling days before trial; after being denied, he said Brockman and Altman “will be the most hated men in America” (www.cnbc.com)
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Source: OpenAI has raised over $4B at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company, a new joint venture to help businesses adopt OpenAI tools (www.bloomberg.com)
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Enzo Health, whose AI tools help home health and hospice agencies automate tasks like patient intake and documentation review, raised a $20M Series A led by N47 (www.axios.com)
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