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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

Housing Bubble & Bust #1 and #2 as Seen through Employment at Mortgage Lenders and Mortgage Brokers (wolfstreet.com)
2026-5-9 Real Estate mortgage

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

Iran Ceasefire Teeters (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-5-9 Iran

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

Victory Day parades and celebrations roll across Russia (PHOTOS, VIDEOS) (www.rt.com)
2026-5-9 Russia

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

Weirdest U.S. Labor Market I've Ever Seen: Supply of Labor Shrinks Further while Private-Sector Jobs Grow (wolfstreet.com)
2026-5-9 U.S.

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

A hack of Instructure's Canvas locked out students at schools and universities across the US in the middle of finals period; some US colleges postponed exams (apnews.com)
2026-5-9

From market to military: Germany's private sector is imploding. (www.rt.com)
2026-5-9 Germany

Pentagon Begins Releasing New Files On UFOs (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-5-9 Pentagon

Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Google DeepMind, is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ led by Thrive Capital (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-9 Google AI

Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-9 Intel Apple

Akamai says it struck a seven-year cloud computing deal with a “leading frontier model provider”; sources: the deal was with Anthropic and is worth $1.8B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-9

Interviews with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and other execs about the challenges of a turnaround, along with efforts to instill a sense of urgency in the organization (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-9 Intel

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