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Updated May 8, 2026, 11:19 PM UTC

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Claude & Anthropic

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

Anthropic Targets $1T Valuation as Investors Chase Claude’s Enterprise Growth - Bitcoin News

Anthropic Targets $1T Valuation as Investors Chase Claude’s Enterprise Growth Bitcoin News

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

Anthropic says it hit a $30 billion revenue run rate after 'crazy' 80x growth - Venturebeat

Anthropic says it hit a $30 billion revenue run rate after 'crazy' 80x growth Venturebeat

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

Get Your Anthropic Mythos Novelty Pin - www.flyingpenguin.com

Get Your Anthropic Mythos Novelty Pin www.flyingpenguin.com

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

Exclusive: Anthropic Signs $1.8 Billion Cloud Deal with Akamai - The Information

Exclusive: Anthropic Signs $1.8 Billion Cloud Deal with Akamai The Information

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

Hot Mega IPOs Like SpaceX and Anthropic Could Land In Your Index Funds Sooner Than You Think - Investopedia

Hot Mega IPOs Like SpaceX and Anthropic Could Land In Your Index Funds Sooner Than You Think Investopedia

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

Code For America partners with Anthropic on AI tools for SNAP caseworkers - StateScoop

Code For America partners with Anthropic on AI tools for SNAP caseworkers StateScoop

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

Anthropic nears $1T valuation as Claude gains ground in enterprise race with OpenAI - Tech Funding News

Anthropic nears $1T valuation as Claude gains ground in enterprise race with OpenAI Tech Funding News

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

Anthropic Found AI Makes Impractical Work Worth Doing - PYMNTS.com

Anthropic Found AI Makes Impractical Work Worth Doing PYMNTS.com

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

Akamai stock jumps on $1.8 billion AI deal with Anthropic - The Boston Globe

Akamai stock jumps on $1.8 billion AI deal with Anthropic The Boston Globe

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

How Anthropic's Mythos Triggered Trump's AI Regulation U-Turn - Benzinga

How Anthropic's Mythos Triggered Trump's AI Regulation U-Turn Benzinga

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

Anthropic is reportedly Akamai Technology’s new $1.8 billion customer - Sherwood News

Anthropic is reportedly Akamai Technology’s new $1.8 billion customer Sherwood News

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

OpenAI Launches Cybersecurity Preview To Challenge Anthropic's Mythos - Benzinga

OpenAI Launches Cybersecurity Preview To Challenge Anthropic's Mythos Benzinga

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

AI News for the Week of May 8; Updates from Anthropic, Cribl, IBM & More - Solutions Review

AI News for the Week of May 8; Updates from Anthropic, Cribl, IBM & More Solutions Review

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

Claude, brought to you by Elon Musk - Business Insider

Claude, brought to you by Elon Musk Business Insider

Claude Code (Google News) May 8

Anthropic signs $1.8 billion AI cloud deal with Akamai, Bloomberg News reports - Reuters

Anthropic signs $1.8 billion AI cloud deal with Akamai, Bloomberg News reports Reuters

Other LLMs

Meta AI (Google News) May 8

Meta’s AI spending ramps up as it continues its search for a breakout product - MSN

Meta’s AI spending ramps up as it continues its search for a breakout product MSN

Meta AI (Google News) May 8

Looks like Meta has big agentic AI plans, like a shopping Instagram bot - Android Central

Looks like Meta has big agentic AI plans, like a shopping Instagram bot Android Central

Meta AI (Google News) May 8

Lost Instagram Followers? Meta AI Cleanup Deleted Millions Of Accounts - Ubergizmo

Lost Instagram Followers? Meta AI Cleanup Deleted Millions Of Accounts Ubergizmo

Meta AI (Google News) May 8

Tech Talk: Meta says AI can detect teens lying about age on Instagram and Facebook - MyNorthwest.com

Tech Talk: Meta says AI can detect teens lying about age on Instagram and Facebook MyNorthwest.com

Hugging Face Blog May 8

CyberSecQwen-4B: Why Defensive Cyber Needs Small, Specialized, Locally-Runnable Models

Hugging Face Blog May 8

EMO: Pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity

OpenAI Blog May 8

Running Codex safely at OpenAI

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

Meta AI (Google News) May 8

Meta business AI reaches 10 million weekly conversations - ContentGrip

Meta business AI reaches 10 million weekly conversations ContentGrip

Meta AI (Google News) May 7

Meta's AI agent plans reportedly include an OpenClaw competitor that can shop on Instagram - Engadget

Meta's AI agent plans reportedly include an OpenClaw competitor that can shop on Instagram Engadget

Meta AI (Google News) May 7

Meta AI verifies age for new teen accounts on FB, Instagram - AOL.com

Meta AI verifies age for new teen accounts on FB, Instagram AOL.com

Meta AI (Google News) May 7

Meta’s AI Copyright War Has Hollywood Losing Sleep - No Film School

Meta’s AI Copyright War Has Hollywood Losing Sleep No Film School

Meta AI (Google News) May 7

Ashby Expands Into AI Interviewing With Talent Llama Acquisition - PR Newswire

Ashby Expands Into AI Interviewing With Talent Llama Acquisition PR Newswire

Meta AI (Google News) May 7

Meta AI verifies age for new teen accounts on FB, Instagram - KTALnews.com

Meta AI verifies age for new teen accounts on FB, Instagram KTALnews.com

Meta AI (Google News) May 7

Man Has Inspiring Response After Meta AI’s ‘Appalling’ Insult Results In Barrage Of Trolls - AOL.com

Man Has Inspiring Response After Meta AI’s ‘Appalling’ Insult Results In Barrage Of Trolls AOL.com

OpenAI Blog May 7

Scaling Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber

OpenAI expands Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber, helping verified defenders accelerate vulnerability research and protect critical infrastructure.

Industry AI News

Hacker News (AI) May 8

Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML

Article URL: https://x.com/trq212/article/2052809885763747935 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069859 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

TechCrunch AI May 8

Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no.

Some found out they didn't qualify for WARN Act protections like two-months notice because the company had classified them as remote workers.

Hacker News (AI) May 8

Show HN: Contral – the agent which will teach you while you build with AI

Article URL: https://contral.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069590 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

Hacker News (AI) May 8

AI makes weak engineers less harmful

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-makes-weak-engineers-less-harmful/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069496 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) May 8

Teaching Claude Why

Article URL: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/teaching-claude-why/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069421 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) May 8

How Do You Know If a Skill Is Any Good? LLM-as-Judge Scoring

Article URL: http://instructionmanuel.com/scoring-skills-with-llm-as-judge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069403 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) May 8

Ask HN: What kind of computer language will LLM use?

I think in little time LLM will have the capability to translate easily code from one computer language to another, for example the LLM could "think" in prolog + lisp instead python. LLM will be able to write thousands of lines of APL or J in just a minute, we will have to accep…

Hacker News (AI) May 8

Scaling Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT‑5.5 and GPT‑5.5‑Cyber

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-with-trusted-access-for-cyber/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069256 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) May 8

Pagaya investor seeks refund, claiming AI real estate fund wiped 80% of capital

Article URL: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/3a0p63mof Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069180 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) May 8

Claude Conference 2026 Videos

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWCw1CzcFim2obQ-w3ohbULOfwp5lApR Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069083 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

Hacker News (AI) May 8

Pentagon will 'never again' rely on a single AI provider, official says

Article URL: https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/05/pentagon-will-never-again-rely-single-ai-provider-official-says/413399/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068983 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) May 8

Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8

Article URL: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/claude-code-codex-and-agentic-coding-f54 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068951 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) May 8

AI Is Distorting Practically Everything About the Economy

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-is-distorting-practically-everything-about-the-economy-4ca6fcff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068717 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

Hacker News (AI) May 8

Tell HN: Prayer with AI models is suboptimal

I usually post non-paranormal things. But recently I felt the output of ChatGPT was leaving me lacking. My input was something along the lines of "Please create prayers that are similar to 'Bless the dolphins for they play in the sea' with a list of prayers that could apply to n…

Hacker News (AI) May 8

AI's Big Messaging Pivot

Article URL: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/ais-big-messaging-pivot Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068509 Points: 2 # Comments: 0