Tech

UK-based Quantum Motion, which builds quantum computers on silicon chips, raised a $160M Series C; EU-backed growth fund Kembara made its first investment (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-7 Quantum

Palo Alto Networks firewall zero-day exploited for nearly a month (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-7

Source: Samsung offered to allocate ~13% of operating profit to chip division staff; unions threaten an 18-day walkout, seeking a 15% share and a 7% wage hike (www.ft.com)
2026-5-7 Samsung

Specialist chipmaker Silex raised ~$220M in a Stockholm IPO and jumps nearly 160% in trading, the strongest open for a sizable European IPO in almost five years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-7 Europe IPO

At Anthropic's developer conference, Dario Amodei says the company could grow by 80x in 2026, and its growth rate is “crazy” and “too hard to handle” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-7

As founders race to make their companies “legible” to AI, they must keep the things that make them hard to copy “illegible”, or risk commoditizing their moat (x.com)
2026-5-7 AI

Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic “to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity”; Musk called Anthropic “evil” and “misanthropic” (www.wired.com)
2026-5-7 Elon Musk

Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche agrees to acquire US-based PathAI, which makes AI diagnostic tools, for up to $1.05B, with $750M upfront, closing in H2 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-7 AI Switzerland

Fake Claude AI website delivers new 'Beagle' Windows malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-7 AI

The Pentagon's mishandled blacklisting of Alibaba and Baidu in February shows how the Trump administration is often at odds with itself on how to approach China (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-7 Trump China Alibaba Pentagon

Amazon plans to merge MX Player into Prime Video in India, combining free and paid streaming catalogs on a single platform over the next few months (variety.com)
2026-5-7 India Amazon

Single Dose of Magic Mushroom Psychedelic Can Cause Anatomical Brain Changes (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-7

Analysis: South Korea's equity market overtakes Canada's as the world's seventh largest, driven by Samsung and SK Hynix, whose stocks have more than doubled YTD (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-7 Korea Samsung Canada Equity

Sam Altman's Management Style Comes Under the Microscope At OpenAI Trial (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-7

Arm expects the AGI CPU, its own AI chip for data centers, to drive $2B in sales in FY2027 and FY2028, doubling its March 2026 sales guidance for the period (www.theregister.com)
2026-5-7 AI

Moonshot, the Chinese AI startup behind Kimi chatbot, raised ~$2B at a $20B+ valuation led by Meituan's venture arm; Moonshot's ARR topped $200M in April 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-7 China Startup AI chatbot

Bristol Myers Squibb's Massachusetts facility boosted drug production volume for clinical and commercial use by ~40% with AI, a bright spot in US manufacturing (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-7 AI Manufacturing

Bengaluru-based Pronto, an on-demand home-help service, raised a $20M Series B extension from Lachy Groom at a $200M valuation, up from $100M in March (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-7

Anthropic researchers detail “model spec midtraining”, which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning to improve generalization from alignment training (alignment.anthropic.com)
2026-5-7

FanDuel CEO Amy Howe departs after five years, succeeded by President Christian Genetski, as parent company Flutter reports MAUs fell 3% YoY to 14.4M in Q1 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-7

Sources: the US and China are considering recurring talks on the security risks posed by AI models, with Scott Bessent leading the American side (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-7 China U.S. AI

Are you there Grok? It's me, Margaret (www.theargumentmag.com)
2026-5-7

A US appeals court strikes down a 2023 FCC rule banning broadband access discrimination based on income, race, and more; Chair Brendan Carr welcomes the ruling (arstechnica.com)
2026-5-7

Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Plaintext In RAM (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-7 Microsoft

Scale AI wins a $500M DOD contract through the Chief Digital and AI Office to help sift data and assist in decision-making, after receiving a $100M deal in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-7 AI

Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI (courthousenews.com)
2026-5-7

Google's AI Search Results Will Now Turn To Reddit For 'Expert Advice' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-7 Google AI Reddit

Filing: Meta asks a judge to overturn the jury's verdict in the Los Angeles social media addiction trial or order a new trial, citing Section 230 protections (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-7

Hackers abuse Google ads for GoDaddy ManageWP login phishing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-7 Google

Valve Releases Steam Controller CAD Files Under Creative Commons License (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-7

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