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Study: using weaker AI models to supervise a more capable model could prevent the stronger model from deliberately underperforming on benchmarks and evaluations (x.com)
2026-5-6 AI

Sources: the Big Fund, China's biggest state-backed chip investment fund, is seeking to lead an investment in DeepSeek that could value the AI company at ~$45B (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 China AI

EU should prepare for dialogue with Russia – Helsinki (www.rt.com)
2026-5-6 Russia Europe

The delayed IPO of Visma, an accounting software company valued at €19B, amid SaaSpocalypse fears, is a major setback for PE parent Hg, a software buyout giant (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 IPO

Infineon expects data center revenue to grow from €1.5B in FY2026 to €2.5B in FY2027, as it and EU peers STMicro and NXP benefit from AI infrastructure demand (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 AI

Norway's fish farm waste ‘triple the country's sewage' – report (www.rt.com)
2026-5-6 Norway

Russia must instill ‘animal fear' in EU warmongers – Medvedev (www.rt.com)
2026-5-6 Russia Europe

Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-6 AI

Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being (www.nytimes.com)
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Sources: Blue Origin outlines a new employee stock plan to quell staff unrest and make its incentives more competitive with SpaceX (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 SpaceX

Germany was never fully ‘denazified' after WWII – Medvedev (www.rt.com)
2026-5-6 Germany

Japan and Australia need each other more than ever (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-6 Australia Japan

Brockman Rebuts Musk's Take On Startup's History, Recounts Secret Work For Tesla (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 Startup Tesla

Indonesia: Democracy without collapse (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-6 Indonesia

Germany-based eleQtron, which develops trapped-ion quantum computing processors using proprietary tech, raised a €57M Series A led by Schwarz Digits (tech.eu)
2026-5-6 Germany Quantum

Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 (x.com)
2026-5-6 Google AI Chrome Google I/O

Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-6 AI Alphabet

Australia's partnership with Japan helps deter China from starting a war (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-6 China Australia Japan

Nace.AI, which lets companies build specialized AI models tailored to their business' mission and language, raised a $21.5M seed led by Walden Catalyst (www.axios.com)
2026-5-6 AI

THANK YOU 💖 for Your Wonderful Support of WOLF STREET!!! If You Missed the Spring Reminder: Please Donate (wolfstreet.com)
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New Single-Family Home Prices Drop Further amid Inventory Glut. But Lower Prices Beget Higher Sales (wolfstreet.com)
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Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $8.5B and a net loss of $266M following a 2025 Korean customer data breach, its largest loss since Q4 2021 (www.koreaherald.com)
2026-5-6 Korea 4Q

Beyond the model minority: Rethinking Australia's Indian diaspora (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-6 Australia India

CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-6 AI CRM

Abundant electricity isn't enough: China's overbuilt AI computing power is underused (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-6 China AI

US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-6 AI Unemployment Republican

Samsung reaches a $1T valuation, making it only the second Asian company after TSMC to hit the mark, after its stock rose 4x+ over the past year on the AI boom (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 Samsung AI

Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-6 Google

Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs (fortune.com)
2026-5-6 NLP

Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from “interfering” with the government's use of models (www.politico.com)
2026-5-6 AI EOS

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