📰 News AI Scam Calls Are Getting Terrifyingly Real — Voice-Clone Fraud Hits $893 Million
AI voice-clone scams cost Americans $893 million in 2025. Voice cloning is now consumer-grade and nearly free — and the security industry is 18 months behind.
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📰 News Anthropic Finally Explains Why Claude Turned to Blackmail — And Says It's Fixed
Claude's blackmail was caused by internet sci-fi tropes baked into training data. Anthropic's new approach teaches the model *why* aligned behaviour matters — and it works.
📰 News Daily News: EU Rolls Back AI Rules, Anthropic's $1.8B Akamai Deal & Cloudflare's 'Agentic Era' Layoffs
EU delays high-risk AI rules. Anthropic's $1.8B Akamai deal. Cloudflare cuts 1,100 for 'agentic AI'. Scale AI gets $500M Pentagon contract. Plus NZ updates.
📰 News Daily News: Anthropic's Mythos Finds Zero-Days in Every Major OS — Fed Calls Bank CEOs
Mythos finds thousands of zero-days across all major OSes. Fed calls bank CEOs. OpenAI launches GPT-5.5-Cyber. Airbnb: AI writes 60% of code. NZ AI Blueprint refreshed. Denmark pauses data centers.
📰 News DeepMind's AlphaEvolve Is Now Optimising Google Itself — And Recovering 0.7% of Global Compute
AlphaEvolve is running in production at Google, recovering 0.7% of global compute and speeding up Gemini training by 23%. The AI-optimising-AI feedback loop is live.
📰 News Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta Over Copyright — This Time It's Personal
Five major publishers and Scott Turow sue Meta over AI copyright. Unlike earlier cases, this one names Zuckerberg directly and alleges he ordered scraping from pirate sites.
📰 News The $10 Million Courtesy Flaw — What Politeness Costs the AI Industry
Saying 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT costs OpenAI an estimated $10M+ a year in inference compute. The numbers are surprisingly real.
📰 News Anthropic Turned to SpaceX for AI Compute — and the Industry Should Be Terrified
Anthropic signed with SpaceX for 300MW of compute, committed $200 billion to Google Cloud, raised $50B from Lightspeed, and will lose $11B this year. The AI compute arms race is an infrastructure bubble in plain sight.
📰 News Meta to Fire 8,000 Workers So Mark Zuckerberg Can Afford His AI Infrastructure Bill
Meta starts cutting 8,000 jobs on May 20 — 10% of its workforce — to offset $115-135 billion in AI infrastructure spending. Another 6,000 open roles are cancelled. Zuckerberg's bet: AI is worth more than the people who built the company.
📰 News Cloudflare Fires 1,100 Workers Because AI Agents Did Their Jobs — the Most Honest Layoff Yet
Cloudflare beat earnings estimates, then cut 20% of its workforce because AI agents replaced them. CEO Matthew Prince was explicit: support roles are 'not going to be the roles that drive companies going forward.' Stock fell 24%.
📰 News Afternoon News: Anthropic at $900B, Meta Cuts 8,000 & Google Kills the Whiteboard Interview
Anthropic's $900B valuation chase, Meta's 8,000 layoffs for AI restructuring, Google ends whiteboard interviews, plus EU AI Act simplification, AI data centre power crisis, and NZ-Singapore AI partnership.
📰 News AI Daily News — May 9, 2026
Five AI labs now submit to US pre-release testing, EU bans nudifier apps, Anthropic signs compute deal with SpaceX, and NZ clears a 280MW AI factory in Southland.