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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

Canvas login portals hacked in mass ShinyHunters extortion campaign (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8

CoreWeave reports Q1 revenue up 112% YoY to $2.08B, vs. $1.97B est., a $99.4B revenue backlog, forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates; CRWV drops 8%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-8

60% of MD5 Password Hashes Are Crackable In Under an Hour (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8

New TCLBanker malware self-spreads over WhatsApp and Outlook (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8 WhatsApp

Nvidia and data center operator IREN announce a deal to deploy up to 5 GW of AI infrastructure; Nvidia can invest $2.1B into IREN; IREN jumps 9%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-8 AI Nvidia

Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $639.8M, plans to cut 1,100+ jobs as it shifts to an “agentic AI-first operating model”; NET drops 13%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8 AI

Coinbase reports Q1 revenue down 31% YoY to $1.41B, vs. $1.52B est., and a loss of $1.49 per share, vs. a $0.27 profit est.; COIN drops 4%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-8 Coinbase

Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $2.68B, vs. $2.62B est., Nights and Seats Booked up 9% to 156.2M, vs. 155.77M est., lifts 2026 revenue growth guidance (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-8 Airbnb

CEOs Want Tariff Refunds As Earnings Take a Hit (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8

Goldman Sachs: Alphabet and Amazon generated “other income” totaling $53B in Q1, or ~60% of their Q1 income; $49B was due to equity stakes in private companies (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8 Amazon Goldman Equity Alphabet

Microsoft Issues Warning About Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8 Linux Microsoft

Anthropic researchers detail natural language autoencoders, which convert LLM activations, the numbers encoding a model's thoughts, into natural language text (www.anthropic.com)
2026-5-8 NLP

Sources: OpenAI and Broadcom discuss terms for Broadcom to finance initial custom chip production for ~$18B, conditioned on Microsoft buying ~40% of the chips (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-8 Microsoft

Sources: Ramp told investors it is raising $750M co-led by Iconiq Capital and GIC at a valuation of $40B+ before the investment, up from $32B in November 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-8

EU legislators reach a deal to postpone restrictions on high-risk AI until December 2027 and to exempt the use of AI in industrial applications from the AI Act (www.politico.eu)
2026-5-8 AI

Sources: AirPods with cameras reached an advanced testing stage; the cameras will feed data to Siri to help answer questions, rather than take photos or video (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8

Google Unveils Screenless Fitbit Air, Google Health App To Replace Fitbit (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8 Google

While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training (simonwillison.net)
2026-5-8 AI

New PCPJack worm steals credentials, cleans TeamPCP infections (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8

OpenAI launches three voice models in the API: GPT-Realtime-2 with GPT-5-class reasoning, GPT-Realtime-Whisper for transcription, and GPT-Realtime-Translate (9to5mac.com)
2026-5-8

LinkedIn Profile Visitor Lists Belong to the People, Says Noyb (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-8 LinkedIn

Australia warns of ClickFix attacks pushing Vidar Stealer malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8 Australia

Don't miss this Lenovo Chromebook while it's on sale for just $60 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-8 Lenovo

OpenAI launches Trusted Contact, an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that lets adult users assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-8

Filing: OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky's wife assumed significant control of OnlyFans holding company Fenix in March following the death of Radvinsky (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-8

Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves “the right to reclaim the compute” from Anthropic if its “AI engages in actions that harm humanity” (x.com)
2026-5-8 AI Elon Musk SpaceX

AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-8 Amazon AI Coinbase

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