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Qasim Nauman / New York Times:
Instructure reaches a deal with the hackers who breached its Canvas edtech platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without saying what it exchanged  —  Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel with President Trump on his China trip, a potential setback to Nvidia; Huang expressed his willingness to join  —  The roster of business leaders invited to join President Donald Trump on his trip to China this week left off one notable …
Socket:
Many npm packages for Mistral, UiPath, and TanStack's web developer tools like react-router were compromised, likely in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack  —  - Immediate triage: Run shasum -a 256 on all router_init.js files in your dependency tree.
Etiido Uko / Tom's Hardware:
Microsoft says it is investigating a Mistral AI PyPI package v2.4.6 compromise; researchers say it is likely part of the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack  —  The malware reportedly refused to run on Russian-language systems but could execute a destructive payload under certain geographic conditions.
Bloomberg:
eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is “neither credible nor attractive”, in a letter from eBay Chairman Paul Pressler  —  EBay Inc. rejected a $56 billion takeover offer from GameStop Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen …
Financial Times:
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  —  In-house MeshClaw tool enables employees to delegate jobs to AI agents and climb company's AI leaderboard
Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog AI News:
OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities  —  OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities.
Wall Street Journal:
The US House Oversight Committee launches a probe into potential conflicts in Sam Altman's personal investments; letter: several GOP AGs call for an SEC review  —  Republican-led House Oversight Committee says it is investigating, and six GOP state attorneys general are calling for SEC review after WSJ article
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon launches Amazon Now, its 30-minute delivery service, in dozens of US cities including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, after pilots  —  Amazon deliveries keep getting faster.  On Tuesday, the online retailer announced the launch of its 30-minute delivery option …
Thinking Machines Lab:
Thinking Machines Lab unveils a preview of interaction models, which can think, respond, and act in real time, letting users continuously collaborate with AI  —  Today, we're announcing a research preview of interaction models: models that handle interaction natively rather than through external scaffolding.
Sawdah Bhaimiya / CNBC:
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will take action against “addictive design” features on TikTok and Instagram, like “endless scrolling”  —  The EU is clamping down on social media firms and plans to target “addictive design” …
Assaf Gilead / Globes:
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  —  Alon Haimovich is leaving after an investigation into alleged unethical use of Azure by the Ministry of Defense, “Globes” has learned.
Cory Weinberg / The Information:
OpenAI stands to hold ~$2.6B in combined CoreWeave and Cerebras stock that it acquired by committing to buy cloud services and chips, and to lend Cerebras money  —  Chipmaker Cerebras brought in one of the greatest pitchmen in tech, Sam Altman, to appear in a video to promote its $5.5 billion initial public offering.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Wrapped-like experience that features “never-before-shared data” going back to when users first joined Spotify  —  The company will include ‘never-before-shared data’ as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations.
CNBC:
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  —  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stand in the Musk v. Altman trial on Monday, where he testified that Elon Musk never contacted …
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Musk v. Altman: Ilya Sutskever testifies that his OpenAI stake is worth ~$7B, and he had concerns about Altman for a year before Altman's brief ouster as CEO
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and social media commentary, with plans to expand to other topics; its previous reboot shut down in March  —  Digg is back from the dead.  Again.  —  Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose's once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March, as the company shifted course.
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
PayPal agrees to forgo ~$30M in transaction fees to end a DOJ probe into allegations that the company adopted unlawful preferences for minority-owned businesses  —  Case is part of Trump administration campaign against corporate DEI initiatives  —  PayPal agreed to forgo approximately $30 million …
Courtney Rozen / Reuters:
The US Commerce Department removed from its website details about its May 5 agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to test their AI models  —  The U.S. Commerce Department removed details from its website about its agreement with Google, xAI and Microsoft to test their artificial intelligence models …
Washington Post:
Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director and Commerce Department's CAISI are fighting over which agency should lead AI model evaluations

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
GitLab announces layoffs, saying they are “not an AI optimization or cost cutting exercise”, and plans to cut the number of countries it operates in
@trq212:
An Anthropic engineer argues HTML is a better output format for AI agents than Markdown, citing information density, ease of sharing, and two-way interaction
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default
Dustin Volz / New York Times:
Google's TIG reports the first known example of hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day; TIG's chief analyst says “this is the tip of the iceberg”
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