Project Glasswing partners can now share Mythos findings beyond the programme
Project Glasswing partners can now share Mythos findings beyond the programme

The Project Glasswing partners can now pass vulnerability findings to other security teams, industry bodies, regulators, open-source maintainers and the press, under responsible-disclosure norms. The defender pool just got wider. Anthropic said on Mond…

Meta moves 7,000 people into AI roles the same week it cuts 10%
Meta moves 7,000 people into AI roles the same week it cuts 10%

Chief People Officer Janelle Gale’s Monday memo described ‘smaller teams’ and a ‘flatter’ structure built around new AI groups for agents, apps, and infrastructure. Layoffs are due later this week. The Meta Saga continues with layoffs and “reassigning”…

Mistral buys Vienna’s Emmi AI to put physics into its industrial pitch
Mistral buys Vienna’s Emmi AI to put physics into its industrial pitch

The Paris-based open-weights lab is acquiring an Austrian startup whose models handle airflow, heat transfer, and material stress, targeting aerospace, automotive, and semiconductor customers. Terms were not disclosed. Mistral AI, Europe’s most promine…

Amazon’s new Alexa feature generates entire podcast episodes using AI and licensed journalism from 200+ newsrooms
Amazon’s new Alexa feature generates entire podcast episodes using AI and licensed journalism from 200+ newsrooms

  Amazon has launched a feature that uses artificial intelligence to generate entire podcast episodes on demand. Called Alexa Podcasts, the tool allows users to ask Alexa+ to create a podcast on any topic, and the system will research the subject, prod…

Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit as jury unanimously rules his claims were filed too late
Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit as jury unanimously rules his claims were filed too late

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. A nine-person jury in Oakland returned a unanimous verdict on Sunday finding that Musk’s claims had been filed too late under the statute of limitations, ending th…

Coursera announces $500 million buyback one week after closing its $2.5 billion Udemy merger
Coursera announces $500 million buyback one week after closing its $2.5 billion Udemy merger

  Coursera has announced a $500 million share repurchase programme, its first buyback since going public in 2021 and one that arrives exactly one week after the online learning company completed its merger with Udemy. The board approved the programme o…

Grafana Labs refuses ransom after hackers steal already-open-source code
Grafana Labs refuses ransom after hackers steal already-open-source code

The hackers exfiltrated a codebase that was already open source, then demanded payment to keep it from being released. Grafana said no, and cited the FBI’s standing advice. It is the second high-profile extortion case in seven days. Grafana Labs, the o…

Anthropic’s co-founder will speak at the Vatican launch of the pope’s AI encyclical
Anthropic’s co-founder will speak at the Vatican launch of the pope’s AI encyclical

Pope Leo XIV will personally present his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on 25 May at the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and one of the speakers alongside him will be Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic. The Vatican announced the details on Monday,…

Omnia and Casa dos Ventos sign $2bn power deal anchoring TikTok’s Brazil data centre
Omnia and Casa dos Ventos sign $2bn power deal anchoring TikTok’s Brazil data centre

The Pátria-controlled data-centre developer is buying renewable power from Brazil’s largest independent generator to underwrite a 200 MW campus in Pecém, the first ByteDance facility in Latin America. Omnia, the Pátria Investimentos-backed data-centre …

NextEra agrees $67bn all-stock deal for Dominion in largest power acquisition ever
NextEra agrees $67bn all-stock deal for Dominion in largest power acquisition ever

The all-stock takeover, the largest power acquisition ever, gives NextEra the utility that runs Northern Virginia’s data-centre belt and consolidates the bidding power on the demand side of the AI-electricity trade. NextEra Energy has agreed to acquire…