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Newspaper Chain's Reporters Withhold Their Bylines to Protest 'AI-Assisted' Articles (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-10 AI

Why Some US Schools Are Cutting Back On the Technology They Spent Billions On (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-10

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-10 California

Fake OpenAI repository on Hugging Face pushes infostealer malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-10

Sources: ByteDance plans to increase its 2026 capex to more than $30B, up at least 25% from a preliminary plan, amid the AI boom and rising memory chip costs (www.scmp.com)
2026-5-10 AI

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

This Babbel deal shows how human-created language learning works better (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-9

Humanoid Robot Becomes Buddhist Monk In South Korea (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-9 Korea Robot

Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-5-9 AI

Fiber Optic Cables Can Eavesdrop On Nearby Conversations (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-9

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 (www.paloaltonetworks.com)
2026-5-9 AI

A profile of Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao, who tends to take a conservative approach to revenue projections and has chosen to raise less money than is available (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-9

Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers (www.anthropic.com)
2026-5-9

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 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-9

Source: Mistral AI and TML's founding member Devendra Chaplot, who was considered a marquee hire when he joined xAI in March, exited xAI after roughly a month (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-9 AI

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 (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-9 Tesla

NASA Keeps Track As Mexico City Sinks Into the Ground (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-9 Mexico NASA

Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera raised over $200M led by SF Group, after raising ~$146M in March at a ~$1.47B valuation (www.caixinglobal.com)
2026-5-9 Robot

Honeywell's Quantinuum files for a US IPO, reporting a $136.6M net loss on revenue of $5.2M for the three months ended March 31; sources: it could raise $1.5B+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-9 IPO Honeywell

Trump Media and Technology Group reports Q1 net sales up 6% YoY to $871,200 and a $405.9M net loss; DJT is down 35% so far in 2026 for a market cap of ~$2.47B (variety.com)
2026-5-9 Trump

The FCC says foreign-made routers and drones can now receive software updates at least until 2029, extending its earlier 2027 cutoff (www.pcmag.com)
2026-5-9 Drone

Does Fidelity's Reorganization Signal the Beginning of the End for 'Small-Team Agile'? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-9

Micron Ships Gigantic 245TB SSD (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-9

Sources: WH is preparing to order US agencies to partner with AI companies on cybersecurity; the EO wouldn't require pre-release model testing by the government (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-9 AI

EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing” (cyberinsider.com)
2026-5-9

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-9 Japan Nintendo

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 (www.interconnects.ai)
2026-5-9 China AI

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data On the Open Web (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-9

Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are among private credit lenders in talks with Broadcom over a ~$35B financing deal to fund the development of AI chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-9 AI

Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from $115-$125 per share to $125-$135 after drawing orders for more than 20x the number of shares available (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-9 IPO

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