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Financial Times: Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products -
Ina Fried / Axios: Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's “shopping mode” feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license -
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta is opening a private API preview for Muse Spark to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience later; META closes up 6.5% -
New York Times: An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto; Back denies the claim -
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read -
Antonis Pothitos / Reuters: Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban children under 15 from accessing social media starting January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action -
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times: Mythos Preview's hacking ability is not a publicity stunt; sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security -
Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: Mythos Preview system card: the model was able to escape a sandbox after it was instructed to try, and publicly detailed its exploit without being prompted -
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other tools to build and deploy AI agents at scale, available in public beta -
Matt Burgess / Wired: AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K+ men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing -
Todd Spangler / Variety: Patreon says it now has 7.6M paid podcast memberships and revenue generated by podcasters on the platform hit $629M in 2025, up 33% YoY -
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: AWS debuts Amazon S3 Files, a new capability built on Amazon's Elastic File System that lets applications and AI agents access S3 buckets as local file systems -
Financial Times: An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz -
Jyoti Mann / The Information: Source: Meta shutters an internal, employee-built leaderboard, dubbed Claudeonomics, tracking staff token usage, due to the data “being shared externally” -
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X rolls out automatic post translation worldwide, powered by xAI's Grok, and updates its iOS image editor with features like drawing, text tools, and blurring -
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Alibaba and China Telecom launch a data center in southern China that is powered by 10,000 of Alibaba's Zhenwu chips designed for AI training and inferencing -
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: FBI: US victims lost nearly $21B to cybercrime in 2025, up 26% YoY, driven by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches -
Tom Warren / The Verge: Internal memo: Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division, will resign after 34 years and move to an “advisory role” at the end of June -
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: GoPro says it will cut 23% of its workforce, or 145 employees, starting in Q2 and costing $11.5M to $15M, as the company struggles to return to profitability -
Isaac Yee / CNN: A hacker claims to have stolen 10PB+ of data, including classified defense docs and missile schematics, from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin -
CNBC: CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI will “for sure” reserve shares for retail investors in its IPO, after “strong demand” from individuals in its latest funding round -
Melia Russell / Business Insider: New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire -
Nikkei Asia: RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation -
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting -
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic