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Google now offers up to $1.5 million for some Android exploits (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5 Android Google

Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded for workplace AI experimentation (www.geekwire.com)
2026-5-5 Microsoft AI

Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate business functions, raised $60M led by Accel at a $500M valuation, two months after exiting stealth (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Startup AI

How Microplastics Are Likely Helping To Heat Up the Planet (news.slashdot.org)
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Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's “not facial recognition” (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-5 Facebook AI Instagram Facial Recognition

This open-box Microsoft Surface SE drops nearly 50% to just $190 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5 Microsoft

Investigation: an inheritance dispute over an ex-LG chair's estate prompts a criminal complaint over how the dynastic South Korean chaebol family divides assets (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-5 Korea Asset

Crypto exchange Bullish agrees to acquire Equiniti, a UK-based financial services outsourcing business, from Siris Capital in a $4.2B deal, set to close in 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
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PayPal reports Q1 net revenue up 7% YoY to $8.4B, total payment volume up 11% YoY to $464B, active accounts up 1% to 439M, and seeks $1.5B+ in cost savings (www.bloomberg.com)
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Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current $852B valuation, the stake is worth $5B+ (daringfireball.net)
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Nscale agrees to spend €695M on infrastructure in Portugal in an expansion of its Microsoft partnership, supplying 66K+ Nvidia Rubin GPUs from late 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Microsoft Nvidia Portugal

Karakurt extortion gang ‘cold case' negotiator gets 8.5 years in prison (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize with the Communication Workers Union and Unite in April, representing 1K+ staff, amid the US DOD deal (www.theguardian.com)
2026-5-5 Google

In Q1, the iPhone 17 was the world's best-selling smartphone, with 6% of global sales; the iPhone 17 Pro Max and 17 Pro were 2nd and 3rd, and Galaxy A07 was 4th (counterpointresearch.com)
2026-5-5 iPhone

CloudZ malware abuses Microsoft Phone Link to steal SMS and OTPs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5 Microsoft

Global chip sales hit $298.5B in Q1 2026, up 25% from Q4 2025, and March sales were up 79.2% YoY to $99.5B, driven by strong sales in Asia and the Americas (www.semiconductors.org)
2026-5-5 Asia 4Q

Vodafone plans to take full ownership of its VodafoneThree joint venture with Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison, which agrees to sell its 49% stake for £4.3B (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-5 Hong Kong

ScarCruft hackers push BirdCall Android malware via game platform (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5 Android

Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on his plan to make Uber an everything app, Uber's AI integrations, investing in autonomous cars, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-5 Uber AI Autonomous Car

Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to Meta, TikTok, Google, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Google Insurance

Astronomers May Have Detected an Atmosphere Around a Tiny, Icy World Past Pluto (science.slashdot.org)
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How Europe is falling behind in the global crypto race, as delays to the ECB's digital euro leave the bloc exposed to US-led stablecoin dominance (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Europe

Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 (x.com)
2026-5-5 AI

OpenAI President Discloses His Stake In the Company Is Worth $30 Billion (yro.slashdot.org)
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Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel and its executives visited a Samsung plant in Texas to explore producing core chips for its devices in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Intel Samsung Apple Texas

Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a $107M Series B co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik; it currently supports more than 190 open models (siliconangle.com)
2026-5-5 Startup

Sources: Sam Altman discussed spinning out OpenAI's robotics and consumer hardware divisions in late 2025 to give them more room to grow; the plan was rejected (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-5 Robot

As Colorado tech leaders say that burdensome regulations are driving companies away, lawmakers introduce a slimmer version of an AI anti-discrimination bill (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-5 AI

How AI is transforming the pharma industry, with most gains so far from back-office streamlining and faster manufacturing rather than breakthrough drug research (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-5 AI Manufacturing

Lattice Semiconductor agrees to acquire AMI for $1.65B in cash and stock; Georgia-based AMI provides firmware and infrastructure manageability for cloud and AI (www.oregonlive.com)
2026-5-5 AI

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