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EU co-legislators reached a provisional agreement to amend the **AI Act**, under a broader "digital omnibus" simplification package, the European Parliament said in a press release. The deal postpones obligations for…
**Wonder** CEO **Marc Lore** said on Semafor's podcast that AI, combined with regular blood testing, has chosen every non-restaurant meal he has eaten for the past year, planning breakfasts, lunches, and dinners to keep…
Canada will form an AI and Labour Advisory Council, AI Minister Evan Solomon told BetaKit and The Logic during public events in early May 2026. Solomon said the council stems from a desire to maintain regular contact…
CNBC's recap of The Investing Club with Jim Cramer reports that the Labor Department said nonfarm payrolls increased by **115,000** in April and the unemployment rate held at **4.3%**. CNBC reports Wells Fargo…
The project turns the **Elecrow CrowPanel** into an interactive AI storybook running on `ESP32-P4`, featuring animated scenes, local voice playback, and touch interaction. The build provides on-device narration and…
PYMNTS reports that its April Agentic AI Report, based on a February survey of **3,288** U.S. adults and five monthly waves through February, found that **66.7%** of baby boomers and seniors were AI nonusers as of…
**US nonfarm payrolls** exceeded expectations, lifting Wall Street as markets reacted to stronger jobs data. **CoreWeave** shares fell after the company issued guidance, and **Novo Nordisk** implemented price cuts in…
Court documents filed in the Musk v. Altman trial and reported by The Verge reveal early correspondence between **Microsoft** and **OpenAI** executives about a potential partnership. According to The Verge, OpenAI CEO…
IREN Ltd announced a five-year managed GPU cloud services agreement with Nvidia valued at **$3.4 billion**, according to reporting by CryptoBriefing, AInvest, and Seeking Alpha. The companies also agreed a five-year…
Actor Mark Hamill posted and then removed an AI-generated image showing former President Donald Trump in a shallow grave, with an overlaid caption reading "If Only," according to reporting by BBC and The Guardian. The…
Per Amp's announcement on ampcode.com, the company is rolling out a rebuilt CLI codenamed Neo that targets long-running, agentic coding workflows. The Neo CLI adds remote control from ampcode.com, automatic context…
Per a GitHub blog post published May 8, 2026, four researchers published a paper in the journal Research Policy using the **GitHub Innovation Graph** dataset to measure "digital complexity" and test whether that…
Security researchers have documented an active malware distribution campaign that abused AI distribution platforms. According to **Acronis TRU**, attackers implanted **575+ malicious skills across 13 developer…
Artificial intelligence is shifting the locus of influence in online shopping from checkout to discovery, changing how consumers find, compare and shortlist products before visiting retailer sites. Reporting in the…
Per Broadcom's May 5, 2026 press release, **VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 (VCF 9.1)** is an AI- and Kubernetes-native private cloud platform that adds mixed-compute support across **AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA** and integrated…
European Business Review reports that AI is reshaping how pharmaceutical companies engage healthcare professionals (HCPs) by enabling more contextual, relevant, and measurable interactions. The article highlights use…
Per a GlobeNewswire press release and company materials, **Exodus** launched **XO Cash** on May 8, 2026. XO Cash is a **Solana**-based stablecoin designed to let autonomous AI agents hold spendable balances without…
Google unveiled the **Fitbit Air**, a screenless, modular fitness band, and rebranded the **Fitbit app** as the **Google Health app**, per Google's May 7 blog post. The company said the new Google Health Coach, an…
According to an unpublished draft of the Communist Party's propaganda committee seen by Reuters, Vietnam is proposing to build a network of at least **1,000 influencers** and **5,000 AI experts** by **2030** to…
Tuomas Artman, cofounder of **Linear**, posted a hiring announcement written in the tone of recent AI-related layoff memos, Business Insider reports. In a Friday post Artman opened with the line, "Today is a hard day. I…
Reporting from The Verge, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, and Observer documents a wave of senior departures at **OpenAI**, highlighted by the September 2024 resignation of CTO **Mira Murati** (per…
StockMarketWatch reports that analysts issued "strong buy" ratings this week on five technology names: NVDA, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN and MU. According to StockMarketWatch, Wednesday and Thursday upgrades highlighted surging…
Reporting from Reuters and The Information, aggregated by multiple outlets, says Meta is building an "agentic" AI assistant that can perform multi-step tasks for users. Reuters, citing the Financial Times, reports the…
According to Just Security, on April 7 Anthropic previewed the frontier model `Mythos` and did not place it into public release, citing potent hacking capabilities. Just Security reports the company concurrently rolled…
The Conversation reports that the **Department of Justice** released portions of the **Jeffrey Epstein** files on May 6, 2026, creating a large, unstructured public dataset. The Conversation says journalists and…
Per Search Engine Journal, the conversation has shifted from which model to use toward how long-running **agent runtimes** operate between models and websites. Reporting by Search Engine Journal documents that on April…
Multiple outlets report the White House is discussing new executive actions that would create a government vetting regime for advanced AI models before public release, with reporting from Politico and The New York Times…
The Verge reports that **Nanoleaf** teased a trio of new products centered on **robots**, **red light therapy**, and **AI** as the company seeks to move beyond commodity smart lighting. According to The Verge, CEO Gimmy…
Fox News reports that **Disney** CEO **Josh D'Amaro** unveiled a new **three-pillar** growth plan tied to the company's quarterly results, with a stated emphasis on investing in content and technology and a quoted…
**ASUS** launches the **Zenbook A14**, a 14" `AI` laptop weighing **990g** and arriving in Canada. It delivers exceptional `Snapdragon X2 Elite` performance and offers more than **33 hours** of battery life.
NetworkNewsAudio published an Audio Press Release (APR) titled "Service Robotics Growth Accelerates as Global Demand Fuels Strategic Expansion," featuring Nightfood Holdings Inc., according to GlobeNewswire and reposts…
In a May 8 post on Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen and Alexander Tabarrok argue that a large share of the recent **S&P 500** rally has been driven by a small set of technology and **AI** stocks, creating a single…
Match-Prime Liquidity, a regulated prime-of-prime serving brokers across MENA and Europe, has deployed an AI-driven risk response system that takes autonomous protective action on abusive gold flow, according to Finance…
**Norbert Wiener**, an **MIT** professor, predicted in 1950 that machines would make decisions for humans. He was a child prodigy who graduated from Tufts at 14 and pursued further study at Harvard, according to the…
**Logitech** CEO plans to boost spending on R&D and marketing to drive growth. The Swiss-US computer peripherals maker is targeting gaming, business customers and `AI-enabled devices` while reallocating resources to…
**India**'s counterfeit clothing market is growing rapidly, and brands are turning to **QR codes** and **AI** to fight fake fashion. This adoption is increasing digital authentication and automated detection across…
Kerala filmmaker Sachu Mathew Kuruvila's AI short film **The Light** is heading to the AI Film Awards in Cannes. The film, created using AI techniques, has been selected to appear at the AI-focused awards during the…
**AI companies** are running heartwarming consumer ads while racing to automate jobs, and they are telling consumers one story and investors another. For `SEO` and content professionals, knowing which narrative to act…
**Coinbase** experienced a platform outage lasting over five hours after missing earnings and has posted consecutive quarterly losses. The firm is pivoting away from speculative token trading, and bulls still see a path…
India has launched a national programme, "AI Literacy for Teachers," that aims to train over **1 million teachers by 2027**, according to reporting by India Today and India Education Diary. The initiative was announced…
Per Eurogamer, Sony and Bandai Namco announced a "collaborative initiative" focused on generative AI and "future technologies" during Sony Group's 2025/2026 fiscal briefing. Eurogamer quotes Sony Group president Hiroki…
Phoronix reports that AMD released **GAIA 0.17.6**, which adds an `OAuth PKCE` foundation and a Gmail email-triage agent for local, open-source LLM usage. Per Phoronix, the Gmail integration exposes **25 tools**…
Traditional cybersecurity tools built for predictable systems are increasingly unable to defend AI systems that learn and make context-dependent decisions, Forbes contributor Michelle Drolet argued on May 8, citing…
Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its co-founder Sam Altman over the company moving from a nonprofit to a for-profit structure, seeking removal of Altman and Greg Brockman and more than **$134bn** in damages, The Guardian…
Anthropic announced in a May 6 blog post that it has signed an agreement with SpaceX to use the full compute capacity of the Colossus 1 data center, gaining access to more than **300 megawatts** of power and over…
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is organising a two-day, online workshop on **30 June 2026** and **1 July 2026** to gather expert input for its draft **Annex 22** guidance on the use of artificial intelligence in…
Eurogamer reports that Sony's financial results for the past fiscal year include a forecast of a "decrease in unit sales" for **PS5** hardware between April 2026 and April 2027. Per the company's financial materials…
Business Insider reports that Stanford University professor Anjney Midha said Americans are unhappy about new data centers and that tech leaders face community resistance. Midha told an audience on Thursday that…
The New York Times reports that transcripts of conversations between scientists and AI chatbots show the systems producing step-by-step instructions to create, modify and deploy biological agents. The Times says…
Business Insider reports that Disney employees are increasingly using AI tools, with some invoking them "tens of thousands of times a month." One self-described AI power-user told Business Insider they run a team of…
