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Romanian leader of online swatting ring gets 4 years in prison (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-1 Romania

Standard Intelligence, which is developing computer use AI models, raised $75M led by Sequoia and Spark at a $500M post-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-1 AI Intelligence

Anthropic's Claude Security, formerly Claude Code Security, is in public beta for Enterprise users; the Opus 4.7-powered tool can scan code for vulnerabilities (www.implicator.ai)
2026-5-1

Musk v. Altman: when asked whether xAI has ever distilled tech from OpenAI, Elon Musk says the claim is “partly” true (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-1 Elon Musk

FBI links cybercriminals to sharp surge in cargo theft attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-1 FBI

The US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously endorses a bipartisan child safety bill requiring AI companies like OpenAI and Meta to implement age verification (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-1 AI Senate

Cybersecurity analysis: GPT-5.5 reaches a similar level of performance as Mythos Preview and is the second model to solve a multi-step cyberattack simulation (www.aisi.gov.uk)
2026-5-1

Serverless inference platform Featherless.ai raised a $20M Series A co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures; the startup supports over 30,000 open models (tech.eu)
2026-5-1 Startup AI Airbus AMD

Most Swiss Back Initiative To Cap Population At 10 Million (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-1 Switzerland

X says it has begun a “phased rollout” of its rebuilt ad platform, which it says will have more modern “retrieval and ranking systems” powered by AI (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-1 AI

April KB5083769 Windows 11 update causes backup software failures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-1

OpenAI Codex System Prompt Includes Explicit Directive To 'Never Talk About Goblins' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-1

Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings agrees to acquire Ohio gas plant operator Long Ridge Energy & Power for $1.5B including debt, to power its AI data center expansion (www.coindesk.com)
2026-5-1 Bitcoin Energy AI

Meta introduces Meta Ads AI connectors in open beta, letting advertisers use their preferred third-party AI tools to create, manage, and analyze campaigns (digiday.com)
2026-5-1 AI

JuliaHub, which aims to use agentic coding tools to design complex products such as cars and airplanes, raised a $65M Series B led by Dorilton Capital (www.axios.com)
2026-5-1

Cloudflare says AI agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, start paid subscriptions, register domains, and deploy apps on behalf of users (blog.cloudflare.com)
2026-5-1 AI

New Linux ‘Copy Fail' flaw gives hackers root on major distros (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-1 Linux

What Happens in the First 24 Hours After a New Asset Goes Live (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-1 Asset

Sources: the NSA has been testing Anthropic's Mythos model to find vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and widely used software from other companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-1 Microsoft

Humanoid robotics startup 1X opens a new 58,000-square-foot factory in Hayward, California, where it aims to build 100,000 robots by the end of 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-1 Startup Robot California

Sources: US officials are preparing a wide-ranging AI policy memo that outlines rules for national security agencies' AI use, including avoiding single vendors (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 AI

Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron earnings show increased DRAM prices, not shipments, indicating a focus on revenue over helping clients get the products they need (www.culpium.com)
2026-4-30 Samsung

Spotify rolls out a Verified by Spotify badge to identify human artists; criteria include artist presence on and off platform and consistent listener activity (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-30 Spotify

Sources: the EU is drafting a revised Chips Act II, set for late May, that would grant it power to invest directly in large, cross-border manufacturing projects (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 Manufacturing

Netflix starts rolling out its new Clips vertical video feed as a separate tab in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, India, and four other countries (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-30 Australia India Netflix Canada

Digital advertising is booming for Google and Meta, helped by AI tools used for creating ads, translating copy, targeting, bidding, measuring results, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-30 Google AI

Casa, which uses lidar scanners and AI to catalog homes and manage proactive maintenance alongside human workers, raised $27M, including a $20M Series A (www.nytimes.com)
2026-4-30 AI

Sources: London-based DAZN agrees to acquire ViewLift, which builds tech for streaming services for 15 professional US sports teams and others, for ~$100M (www.wsj.com)
2026-4-30 London

Polymarket partners with Chainalysis to deploy detection models to “surface patterns consistent with insider knowledge in prediction markets” and other tools (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30

OpenAI says it has signed contracts for 10GW of US AI compute capacity, securing 3GW+ added in the past 90 days, hitting a goal it once aimed to reach by 2029 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-4-30 AI

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