Tech

Datadog closed up 31%+ after reporting Q1 revenue up 32% YoY to $1B and raising its FY revenue forecast, an outlier in the software industry amid the AI boom (siliconangle.com)
2026-5-8 AI

Sony reports Q4 revenue of $19.4B, above ~$18.4B est., operating profit of ~$1.06B, below ~$1.7B est., and forecasts FY 2027 net profit to rise 13% to ~$7.4B (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-8 4Q Sony

Sony and TSMC announce a new JV to build next-gen image sensors for robots and cars, as Sony moves from in-house manufacturing to a more asset-light approach (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8 Robot Manufacturing Sony Asset

Sources: the US suspects OBON, a key company behind Thailand's national AI effort, of smuggling Super Micro servers with export-controlled Nvidia chips to China (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8 China Thailand AI Nvidia

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

Nintendo said it would increase the price of the Switch 2 to $500, up from $450, globally from September 1, and offered a downbeat performance outlook for 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8 Nintendo

Former govt contractor convicted for wiping dozens of federal databases (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8

New Linux 'Dirty Frag' zero-day gives root on all major distros (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8 Linux

The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8

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

Filings: Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin is planning a dual IPO on Shanghai's STAR Board and in Hong Kong; Baidu holds a 58% stake in Kunlunxin (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8 Hong Kong IPO AI Shanghai

Sources: SK Hynix's big customers have been proposing a range of offers to secure memory chip supplies, including investing in dedicated chip production lines (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-8

Fintech app Toss, used by ~66% of South Korea's 51M people, says its FacePay service, available at 330K retail outlets, has attracted 4.8M users since September (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8 Korea Retail Fintech

Instructure disables its Canvas edtech platform, used by thousands of schools and universities, amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters (krebsonsecurity.com)
2026-5-8

Sony reports 1.5M PS5 unit sales in Q4, down 46% YoY, and forecasts annual sales at its gaming business to fall 6% YoY to $1.69B, amid memory chip price surge (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-8 4Q Sony

Sources: Anthropic weighs raising as much as $50B at a ~$900B pre-money valuation, likely closing within two months; its annualized revenue is nearing $45B (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8

Sam Altman Had a Bad Day In Court (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8

Sources: White House unease over Mythos has left some administration officials fearful that the change represents a reversal of its hands-off AI policy (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-8 AI

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a security-focused variant of the model, in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams (www.axios.com)
2026-5-8

A US judge blocks DOGE's termination of $100M in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, saying ChatGPT prompts used to decide the cuts were ill-defined (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8

10 Insane Covert Operations from WWII (listverse.com)
2026-5-8

10 Fascinating Explanations for Cosmic Mysteries (listverse.com)
2026-5-8

Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 423 Firefox security bug fixes in April, compared to 31 a year earlier (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-8 AI Firefox Mozilla

Sources: AI model builder Core Automation, founded in March by Jerry Tworek, aims to raise $300M-$500M at a $4B valuation after raising $100M at a $1B valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-8 AI

MercadoLibre reports Q1 revenue up 49% YoY to $8.8B, vs. $8.4B est., and net income down 16% to $417M, vs. $433M est.; MELI drops 5%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8

French prosecutors escalate an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on alleged algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-8 France Elon Musk

IMF Warns New AI Models Risk 'Systemic' Shock To Finance (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8 AI IMF

Lyft reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.65B, vs. $1.63B est., gross bookings up 19% to $4.95B, vs. $4.91B est., and rides up 8.5% to 236.9M, vs. 241.2M est. (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-8

Block reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to $6.1B, vs. $5.9B est., and raises its 2026 gross profit forecast above estimates; XYZ jumps 7%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8

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