Tech

Scientists Discover 27 Potential New Planets That Orbit Two Stars (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-5

Inside Palantir Foundation's Atlantic and Pacific Forum at Yale for invited students: State Dept. and Palantir staff share a vision of mixing AI and state power (nymag.com)
2026-5-5 AI

Investment and tech firm Long Lake says it will buy corporate travel operator Amex GBT for $6.3B, citing AI's ability to modernize the business travel sector (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-5 AI

How “emotion AI”, the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-5-5 AI

Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised $140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a $1B valuation (www.ft.com)
2026-5-5 Energy

SAP to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse provider, and Prior Labs, which it pledges to invest €1B in over four years, hoping to create a frontier AI lab (www.constellationr.com)
2026-5-5 AI

Anthropic announces a JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman that aims to sell AI tools to companies; sources: the JV is worth ~$1.5B (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-5 AI Goldman

Bret Taylor's Sierra, which sells AI customer service agents, raised a $950M Series E led by Tiger and GV at a $15.8B post-money valuation, up from $10B in 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-5 AI

Katie Haun raises $1B for two funds split between early and later-stage investments, looking at startups blending financial services, AI, and alternative assets (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Startup AI Asset

Trump's World Liberty Financial countersues Tron founder Justin Sun, alleging defamation, contract violations, and more (fortune.com)
2026-5-5 Trump

The jury-less bench trial phase of Meta's child safety case in NM begins today to determine if Meta's actions were a public nuisance and warrant product changes (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-5

eBay's stock jumps 6%+ to ~$111, below GameStop's $125/share acquisition offer, in a sign investors see hurdles to completing a deal; GameStop's stock drops ~4% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-4 eBay

They don't hack, they borrow: How fraudsters target credit unions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-4

Filing: Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman about settling days before trial; after being denied, he said Brockman and Altman “will be the most hated men in America” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-4 U.S. Elon Musk

Source: OpenAI has raised over $4B at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company, a new joint venture to help businesses adopt OpenAI tools (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-4

Enzo Health, whose AI tools help home health and hospice agencies automate tasks like patient intake and documentation review, raised a $20M Series A led by N47 (www.axios.com)
2026-5-4 AI

Webinar: Why MSPs must rethink security and backup strategies (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-4

Progress warns of critical MOVEit Automation auth bypass flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-4

16% of Parents Help Their Children Bypass Online Age Checks, Study Finds. One 15-Year-Old Just Uses a Fake Moustache (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-4

CISA says ‘Copy Fail' flaw now exploited to root Linux systems (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-4 Linux

How AI tools such as Naver's Talking Buddy and SuperBrain are helping South Korea's elderly ease loneliness, detect emergencies, and slow cognitive decline (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-4 Korea AI

Block all ads on 9 devices for life for only $16 in this AdGuard deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-4

Microsoft confirms April Windows updates cause backup failures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-4 Microsoft

Instructure reported a data breach on April 30; ShinyHunters added Instructure to its victims list and claims it has 3.65TB of data from ~9K institutions (www.securityweek.com)
2026-5-4

Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, allowing other companies to use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver raw materials, final products, and more (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-4 Amazon Logistics

Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has “now dropped to zero” and that US export policy “has already largely backfired” (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-5-4 China AI Nvidia

Source: Cerebras is expected to price its shares at between $115 and $125 and go public with the “CBRS” ticker; Cerebras is targeting a $40B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-4

Can Investors Trust AI Sales Figures? Asks Wall Street Journal Opinion Piece (slashdot.org)
2026-5-4 AI Wall Street

Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the plan's reliance on Nvidia GPUs (www.politico.eu)
2026-5-4 Nvidia

An analysis of 1.6M Polymarket accounts since November 2022: 0.1% of users take 67% of profits, with the highest-frequency traders seeing the most success (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-4

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