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May 11, 2026OpenAI's $30M Cashouts, Circle's Blockchain OS Bet, and the Death of 90-Day Disclosure
In today's episode:
Sources: OpenAI facilitated a $6.6B secondary share sale in October 2025 for 600+ current and ex-employees; over 75 people cashed out the maximum cap of $30M

Circle raised $222M via the presale of its native Arc token at a $3B valuation; a16z led with a $75M investment, with participation from BlackRock and others

Microsoft's Playground Games accidentally uploads unencrypted pre-load files for Forza Horizon 6 to Steam, leaking the PC version before its release next week

The 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is dead, as LLMs compress bug finding and exploit development time, and critical issues must be patched immediately

Dua Lipa files a $15M lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that it used her likeness to sell TVs without paying her and without permission starting in 2025

TikTok plans to roll out TikTok Ad-Free, a £3.99-per-month subscription for UK accounts aged 18 or older in the coming months, after testing the option in 2023
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May 10, 2026Palantir's AI Slop Problem, Robocall Rules, and the Breach Wave
In today's episode:
FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears

Executives at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens

Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 2025 were AI-powered, and predicts agentic AI will be the leading cause of data breaches in 2026

NYC-based Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a $125M Series C led by KKR

MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain, sources say for $100M in stock; DFlow had raised $7.5M across two rounds

Sydney-based AI data center operator IREN agrees to acquire Mirantis, which offers Kubernetes management and cloud infrastructure software, for $625M in stock
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9min
May 09, 2026Apple Crawls Back to Intel, the EU Wants to Kill VPNs, and AI Is Eating the PC Market Alive
In today's episode:
Sources: Apple and Intel have reached a formal deal in recent months for Intel to manufacture some chips for Apple devices; INTC closes up 13.93%

EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing”

Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors

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

Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers

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
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May 08, 2026Anthropic's $900B Moonshot, Canvas Goes Dark, and Nintendo Hikes Prices
In today's episode:
Nintendo says it will increase the price of the Switch 2 to $500, up from $450, globally from September 1, and offers a downbeat performance outlook for 2026

Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 423 Firefox security bug fixes in April, compared to 31 a year earlier

French prosecutors escalate an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on alleged algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe

Instructure disables its Canvas edtech platform, used by thousands of schools and universities, amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters

Sources: Anthropic weighs raising as much as $50B at a ~$900B pre-money valuation, likely closing within two months; its annualized revenue is nearing $45B

Sources: White House unease over Mythos has left some administration officials fearful that the change represents a reversal of its hands-off AI policy
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8min
May 07, 2026Anthropic Rents Musk's Supercomputer, Data Centers in Space, and 80x Growth
In today's episode:
SpaceXAI signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, and says Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for orbital compute capacity

Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic “to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity”; Musk called Anthropic “evil” and “misanthropic”

Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use “all of the compute capacity” at Colossus 1, giving it access to over 300 MW of new capacity within the month

Following its SpaceX deal, Anthropic doubles Claude Code's five-hour rate limits for paid plans and removes peak hours limit reduction for Pro and Max plans

At Anthropic's developer conference, Dario Amodei says the company could grow by 80x in 2026, and its growth rate is “crazy” and “too hard to handle”

Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI
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May 06, 2026Anthropic's $200B Google Tab, AMD's Monster Quarter, and a Daemon in the Machine
In today's episode:
Source: Anthropic plans to spend ~$200B on Google's Cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the “revenue backlog” that Google disclosed last week

Sources and a document: Google is testing a “personal agent” codenamed Remy in the Gemini app that integrates with Google services to take actions for users

Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, was backdoored on April 8 in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates

Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a California federal court in a false advertising class action lawsuit over its 2024 announcement of a “personalized” Siri

AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $10.25B, above $9.89B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ pre-market

Sources: the White House is mulling EOs to address advanced AI security risks, including barring companies from “interfering” with the government's model usage
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9min
May 05, 2026Trump Wants to Vet AI Models, Apple Eyes Intel & Samsung, and OpenAI's Phone Gambit
In today's episode:
Sources: the Trump administration is discussing an EO to create an AI working group to examine AI oversight procedures, including vetting models before release

Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel and Apple executives visited a Samsung plant in Texas to explore producing core chips for its devices in the US

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

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+

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

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
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9min
May 04, 2026GameStop Wants to Buy eBay, Cerebras Takes Two, and Nvidia Hits Zero in China
In today's episode:
GameStop makes an unsolicited ~$56B offer to buy eBay after building a ~5% stake, offering $125/share in cash and stock, a 20% premium on May 1 closing price

Cerebras seeks a valuation of up to $26.62B in its US IPO, aiming to raise $3.5B by selling 28M shares at $115 to $125 apiece in its second attempt to go public

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”

Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount

How music streaming services are adapting to the rise of AI-generated music by labeling, deranking, and demonetizing tracks, using AI detection tools, and more

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
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10min
May 03, 2026AI Diagnoses Better Than Doctors, GameStop Wants to Buy eBay, and RIP Ask Jeeves
In today's episode:
Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors

Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google

Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay after quietly building a stake; GameStop had a market cap of ~$11B as of May 1, while eBay had ~$45B

Amadeus IT Group, which operates the world's largest travel booking system, plans to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, for €1.2B in cash

A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate staff just to replace them with AI, following a similar ruling by another Chinese court in December 2025

A group sympathetic to Iran claims responsibility for DDoS attacks on Ubuntu and its parent Canonical, hampering communications about the CopyFail vulnerability
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9min
May 02, 2026GameStop vs eBay, Apple's Memory Crisis, and Ubuntu Goes Dark
In today's episode:
Apple has stopped offering a 256GB storage option for the Mac mini globally; Mac mini now starts at 512GB for $799 in the US

Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing AI models for robots; Assured Robot Intelligence's team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs

How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others

Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay after quietly building a stake; GameStop had a market cap of ~$11B as of May 1, while eBay had ~$45B

Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a “sustained, cross-border attack”

xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring “always-on reasoning”, 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices
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8min

FAQs about Good Morning Tech News:

How many episodes does Good Morning Tech News have?

The podcast currently has 80 episodes available.