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May 9, 2026 AI, Software & FinTech News
BRIEF5 storiesByteDance Targets 25% Rise in AI…, Scaling Trusted Access for Cyber with…, DraftKings Bets on Exchange-Style…
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    ByteDance Targets 25% Rise in AI Infrastructure Spending: SCMPBloomberg Technology
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    Scaling Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-CyberOpenAI expands Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber, helping verified defenders accelerate vulnerability research and protect critical infrastructure.OpenAI News
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    DraftKings Bets on Exchange-Style Expansion As Sportsbook Sector MaturesCustomer acquisition at scale is no longer the name of the online sports betting game.PYMNTS
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    Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete, even as revenue hit a record highCloudflare announced its first large-scale layoff.TechCrunch
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    DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal, judge rulesThe Department of Government Efficiency's cancellation of over $100 million in grants was unconstitutional, according to a ruling on Thursday.The Verge
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Here’s what happened in crypto today

Here’s what happened in crypto today

Cointelegraph · May 9, 2026 New

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation.

Chess Learns to Live With Its Robot Overlords

Chess Learns to Live With Its Robot Overlords

PYMNTS · May 9, 2026 New

Let us begin by tipping a small, respectful, slightly terrified king to the International Chess Federation, which has managed to connect three things that reliably make people fee...

SEC Chairman Urges Clear Rules for On-Chain Trading

SEC Chairman Urges Clear Rules for On-Chain Trading

PYMNTS · May 8, 2026 New

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul S. Atkins said Friday (May 8) that he believes the SEC must provide greater clarity around on-chain financial markets and th...

OCC Recommends Banks Sharpen AI Defense Tactics

OCC Recommends Banks Sharpen AI Defense Tactics

PYMNTS · May 8, 2026 New

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency highlighted artificial intelligence as both a risk and an opportunity for innovation in its spring 2026 Semiannual Risk Perspective. ...

Labor Economy Workers Keep the Jobs Market Moving

Labor Economy Workers Keep the Jobs Market Moving

PYMNTS · May 8, 2026 New

The labor market added jobs at a moderate pace in April, but the latest employment data also underscored a reality that has increasingly defined the economy in the United States. ...

Carlyle Global Research Head on AI's Economic Impact

Carlyle Global Research Head on AI's Economic Impact

Bloomberg Technology · May 8, 2026 New

Carlyle Head of Global Research & Investment Strategy Jason Thomas discusses expectations of enormous AI productivity gains moving forward, and why US valuations are much more att...

Airbnb CEO Predicts AI Will Rewrite Job Descriptions

Airbnb CEO Predicts AI Will Rewrite Job Descriptions

PYMNTS · May 8, 2026 New

Airbnb is gaining innovation and efficiency through its use of artificial intelligence, the company said in a shareholder letter released Thursday (May 7). The company’s engineers...

Anthropic Found AI Makes Impractical Work Worth Doing

Anthropic Found AI Makes Impractical Work Worth Doing

PYMNTS · May 8, 2026 New

The productivity debate around enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) has narrowed to one question: how much faster can workers complete existing tasks? Anthropic’s internal rese...

All the latest updates on AI data centers

All the latest updates on AI data centers

The Verge · May 8, 2026 New

Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked u...

Impact of AI on Hiring, Workforce Trends

Impact of AI on Hiring, Workforce Trends

Bloomberg Technology · May 8, 2026 New

Learning AI is becoming more and more crucial for workers to get hired, as 42% of recent grads are still underemployed. Clara Shih, founder and CEO of the New Work Foundation and ...

gamma. CEO Larry Jackson on Music Career, Ye's Comeback

gamma. CEO Larry Jackson on Music Career, Ye's Comeback

Bloomberg Technology · May 8, 2026 New

gamma. CEO & Co-Founder Larry Jackson discusses his career in the music industry, his relationship with Kanye West, and how artificial intelligence has changed the business. He ta...

Pentagon releases UFO files on new website

Pentagon releases UFO files on new website

TechCrunch · May 8, 2026

The initial set of files housed on the site will include those containing unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) videos, photos, and original source documents from across the enti...

Running Codex safely at OpenAI

Running Codex safely at OpenAI

OpenAI News · May 8, 2026

How OpenAI runs Codex securely with sandboxing, approvals, network policies, and agent-native telemetry to support safe and compliant coding agent adoption.

Weekly Pulse Check on Automation & AI News - 05.08.26

Weekly Pulse Check on Automation & AI News - 05.08.26

SS&C Blue Prism YouTube · May 8, 2026

In this episode, Transform NOW co-hosts Brad Hairston and Michael Marchuk banter about some interesting recent news headlines in the world of automation and AI. News stories cover...

How to Disable Google's Gemini in Chrome

How to Disable Google's Gemini in Chrome

Wired · May 7, 2026

Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. The bad? You might not want ...

Great to bring GPT 5.5 Instant to M365 Copilot today. With quicker, clearer and more accurate responses, you can get to useful answers with less back and forth. Also rolling out to Copilot Studio and Foundry. All part of our focus on providing you more model choice across work, agents and apps. Read more…

Great to bring GPT 5.5 Instant to M365 Copilot today. With quicker, clearer and more accurate responses, you can get to useful answers with less back and forth. Also rolling out to Copilot Studio and Foundry. All part of our focus on providing you more model choice across work, agents and apps. Read more…

Microsoft News · May 7, 2026

The post Great to bring GPT 5.5 Instant to M365 Copilot today. With quicker, clearer and more accurate responses, you can get to useful answers with less back and forth. Also roll...

We’re introducing three audio models in the API

We’re introducing three audio models in the API

OpenAI YouTube · May 7, 2026

We’re introducing three audio models in the API that unlock a new class of voice apps for developers. With these models, developers can build voice experiences that feel more natu...

Translating Claude’s thoughts into language

Translating Claude’s thoughts into language

Anthropic YouTube · May 7, 2026

AI models like Claude talk in words but think in numbers. These numbers, called activations, encode Claude’s thoughts, but not in a language we can read. We are introducing Natura...

AI as a Leadership Coach

AI as a Leadership Coach

TEK2day Newsletter · May 7, 2026

We have added 50 management frameworks (and counting), from some of the all-time great operating CEOs such as Andy Grove, Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon and Jensen Huang.

GPT-5.5 is a game changer for finance

OpenAI YouTube · May 7, 2026

"GPT 5.5 is an absolute game changer for our customers, specifically in finance, because the model is just amazing at multi-step reasoning." Build with GPT-5.5 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/...

Introducing GPT-5.5 with Box

Introducing GPT-5.5 with Box

OpenAI YouTube · May 7, 2026

"When I saw the GPT-5.5 evals come back, I literally did a double take." Yes, we’re model magicians. It’s exciting to see how Box is pointing GPT-5.5 towards their most difficult,...

Testing ads in ChatGPT

Testing ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI News · May 6, 2026

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

Introducing Trusted Contact in ChatGPT

Introducing Trusted Contact in ChatGPT

OpenAI News · May 6, 2026

Introducing Trusted Contact in ChatGPT, an optional safety feature that notifies someone you trust if serious self-harm concerns are detected.

Introducing ChatGPT for Excel and Google Sheets

Introducing ChatGPT for Excel and Google Sheets

OpenAI YouTube · May 6, 2026

Ask ChatGPT to analyze, update, and explain your spreadsheets directly in Excel and Google Sheets. These add-ins are now available globally across all plans. Powered by GPT-5.5, C...

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