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May 10, 2026, 12:40 AM
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Ken Macon / Reclaim The Net:
FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears  —  The era of the anonymous phone number could be ending.  On April 30, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
GM agrees to pay $12.75M to resolve a California investigation into claims that it illegally sold the location and driving data of OnStar subscribers to brokers  —  GM (GM.N) has agreed to pay $12.75 million to resolve a California investigation into allegations that the Detroit automaker illegally sold …
Bloomberg:
How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period  —  Championed by a guru known simply as the Kook, the satellite company AST has become one of the world's most expensive stocks.
Zack Abrams / The Block:
LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup  —  Quick Take  — LayerZero published a blog post Friday apologizing for poor communication in the three weeks since the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit.
Anthropic:
Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers  —  Last year, we released a case study on agentic misalignment.  In experimental scenarios, we showed that AI models from many different …
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023  —  The journal of OpenAI president Greg Brockman is now a character in the company's battle with the world's richest man …
Krysta Fauria / Associated Press:
Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality  —  As concerns mount over artificial intelligence and its rapid integration into society, tech companies are increasingly turning …
Sam Rubin / Palo Alto Networks Blog:
Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage  —  For the last several months, we have had early, unbounded access to the latest frontier AI models.

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: David Ellison has asked CNN CEO Mark Thompson to stay on after the WBD acquisition closes; Thompson's current deal extends into 2027

Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
The White House once again removes CNN from the press pool traveling with Trump; the judge's order only addressed access to White House grounds

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A US judge dismisses Penske Media's lawsuit against Google over traffic and revenue loss due to AI Overviews since Google never promised any traffic to Penske

More News

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
Alex Lekander / CyberInsider:
EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing”

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Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI:
Impressions of China's AI ecosystem after visiting many leading AI labs there, and the similarities and differences in working on LLMs in China and the West
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
Sony reports Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to ~$19.4B, above ~$18.4B est., ~$1.06B operating profit, below ~$1.7B est., and forecasts FY 2027 net profit up 13% to ~$7.4B
Bloomberg:
Nintendo says it will increase the price of the Switch 2 globally on September 1, from $450 to $500 in the US, and the price of the original Switch in Japan
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Instructure says its Canvas edtech platform has been restored after disabling it amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters
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