Internet/e-commerce

eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is “neither credible nor attractive”, in a letter from eBay Chairman Paul Pressler (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-12 eBay

Source: Microsoft Israel's GM leaves after an internal probe into alleged unethical use of Azure by Israel's MOD; Microsoft France will manage Microsoft Israel (en.globes.co.il)
2026-5-12 France Israel Microsoft

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Testifies In OpenAI Trial (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-12 Microsoft

Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets (www.ft.com)
2026-5-12 Amazon AI

Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI's payments to Microsoft at $38B; they previously could have totaled $135B through 2030 if long-term goals were met (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-12 Microsoft

The US Commerce Department removed from its website details about its May 5 agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to test their AI models (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-12 Google Microsoft AI

Musk v. Altman: Satya Nadella says Elon Musk never contacted him with concerns that Microsoft's investments in OpenAI violated any special terms or commitments (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-12 Microsoft Elon Musk

Google's TIG says it has likely thwarted efforts to use AI for a “mass exploitation event” and warns that tools like OpenClaw are being used to find exploits (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-12 Google AI

Google Says Hackers Used AI To Create Zero Day Security Flaw For the First Time (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-12 Google AI

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Netflix for allegedly spying on consumers by collecting their data without consent, and designing its platform to be addictive (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-12 Netflix Texas

Google's TIG reports the first confirmed instance of “prominent cybercrime threat actors” using AI to find and weaponize a zero-day in a web-based admin tool (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-11 Google AI

Google: Hackers used AI to develop zero-day exploit for web admin tool (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-11 Google AI

Microsoft's Playground Games accidentally uploads unencrypted pre-load files for Forza Horizon 6 to Steam, leaking the PC version before its release next week (www.windowscentral.com)
2026-5-11 Microsoft

A look at “YouTube whisperers” like Paddy Galloway and Mario Joos, a booming class of advisers that help popular YouTube creators grow their audiences (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-11 YouTube

Challenging UPS and FedEx, Amazon Opens Its Shipping Network to All Businesses (slashdot.org)
2026-5-11 Amazon

Microsoft and G42's $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya stalls after the government couldn't provide annual payment guarantees that Microsoft requested (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-11 Microsoft

Hackers abuse Google ads, Claude.ai chats to push Mac malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-11 Google AI

Amazon Relents, Lets its Programmers Use OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-5-11 Amazon Programmer

Google seems to require Google Play Services for passing next-gen reCAPTCHA on Android, denying de-Googled Android phones and creating surveillance issues (reclaimthenet.org)
2026-5-10 Android Google

'Changing of the Guard'? AMD, Intel, and Micron Soar While Nvidia Lags (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-10 Intel Nvidia AMD

Washington ignored intel warnings on Iran – Trump's ex-counterterror chief (www.rt.com)
2026-5-10 Trump Intel Iran

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable (www.moneycontrol.com)
2026-5-9 India Google

Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Google DeepMind, is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ led by Thrive Capital (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-9 Google AI

Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-9 Intel Apple

Interviews with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and other execs about the challenges of a turnaround, along with efforts to instill a sense of urgency in the organization (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-9 Intel

Sources: Apple and Intel have reached a formal deal in recent months for Intel to manufacture some chips for Apple devices (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-9 Intel Apple

Investor letter: TCI, one of the world's biggest hedge funds, cut almost all of its $8B stake in Microsoft, citing AI-related risks to Office and Azure (www.ft.com)
2026-5-9 Microsoft AI

Musk v. Altman docs: Microsoft execs had reservations about funding OpenAI in 2018 but worried that withholding support could push OpenAI into Amazon's arms (www.wired.com)
2026-5-8 Amazon Microsoft

Surveys: half of US adults under 50 get health info from influencers or podcasts; 86% of the health influencers are on Instagram, 62% on TikTok, 45% on YouTube (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-5-8 YouTube Instagram

Analysis: the combined free cash flow of Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta is expected to fall to ~$4B in Q3 and hit its lowest full-year level since 2014 (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8 Amazon Microsoft Alphabet

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