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Zyphra's ZAYA1-8B: An Open MoE Reasoning Model With 760M Active Parameters That Runs on AMD
AI Models

Zyphra's ZAYA1-8B: An Open MoE Reasoning Model With 760M Active Parameters That Runs on AMD

Zyphra released ZAYA1-8B under Apache 2.0 — a mixture-of-experts model with 8.4B total parameters but only 760M active per forward pass, trained entirely on AMD Instinct MI300X hardware, that matches DeepSeek-V3.2 and approaches frontier reasoning models on math benchmarks.

May 8, 20265 min read
CVE-2026-23918: Apache HTTP Server 2.4.66 RCE via HTTP/2 Double-Free — Patch to 2.4.67 Now
Cybersecurity

CVE-2026-23918: Apache HTTP Server 2.4.66 RCE via HTTP/2 Double-Free — Patch to 2.4.67 Now

A CWE-415 double-free in mod_http2 lets unauthenticated attackers trigger DoS on any Apache installation and full RCE on Debian and Docker-based deployments. Upgrade to 2.4.67 immediately.

May 8, 20265 min read
Anthropic Deploys 10 Pre-Built AI Agents for Wall Street — Already Live at Goldman, JPMorgan, Citi
AI Tools

Anthropic Deploys 10 Pre-Built AI Agents for Wall Street — Already Live at Goldman, JPMorgan, Citi

Anthropic released 10 named Claude agent templates purpose-built for investment banking, asset management, and fintech workflows, from pitch builders to KYC screeners. The launch includes full Microsoft 365 integration and new data connectors reaching Moody's credit ratings for 600 million companies.

May 7, 20265 min read
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Kills Copilot for Gaming — Pivots AI to Graphics and Discovery
Big Tech

New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Kills Copilot for Gaming — Pivots AI to Graphics and Discovery

Asha Sharma, who became Xbox CEO in February 2026, has wound down Copilot for Gaming on mobile and canceled its planned console launch just 14 months after the feature debuted at GDC 2025. Xbox's AI investment is being redirected toward Automatic Super Resolution, game discovery, and personalization.

May 7, 20265 min read
DAEMON Tools Supply Chain Attack: Versions 12.5.0.2421–12.5.0.2434 Trojanized With Signed Malware
Cybersecurity

DAEMON Tools Supply Chain Attack: Versions 12.5.0.2421–12.5.0.2434 Trojanized With Signed Malware

Kaspersky disclosed that DAEMON Tools installers downloaded between April 8 and May 5, 2026 were compromised with a .NET info-stealer signed by the software's own legitimate certificates. If you installed or updated DAEMON Tools in this window, upgrade to 12.6 immediately and run a full scan.

May 7, 20265 min read
Samsung Crosses $1 Trillion Market Cap — HBM4 Production and 750% Profit Surge Drive Historic Rally
Hardware

Samsung Crosses $1 Trillion Market Cap — HBM4 Production and 750% Profit Surge Drive Historic Rally

Samsung Electronics' stock surged 14% on May 6, pushing it past the $1 trillion market cap mark — only the second Asian company to reach that milestone. The rally was fueled by AI memory chip demand and Q1 2026 profits that rose 750% year-over-year.

May 7, 20265 min read
Cloudflare and Stripe Launch a Protocol That Lets AI Agents Provision Cloud Infrastructure Autonomously
Cloud & Infrastructure

Cloudflare and Stripe Launch a Protocol That Lets AI Agents Provision Cloud Infrastructure Autonomously

A new open protocol co-designed by Cloudflare and Stripe enables AI coding agents to create cloud accounts, purchase domains, and deploy applications to production without human intervention beyond initial authorization.

May 6, 20265 min read
NHS England Orders Hundreds of GitHub Repos to Go Private — Blames AI Models Like Anthropic's Mythos
Open Source

NHS England Orders Hundreds of GitHub Repos to Go Private — Blames AI Models Like Anthropic's Mythos

NHS England is requiring all technology leaders to make public GitHub repositories private by May 11, citing the risk that advanced AI can analyze healthcare code at scale to discover exploitable vulnerabilities.

May 6, 20265 min read
Cerebras Files for $26.6B Nasdaq IPO — The Wafer-Scale AI Chip That's 57x Bigger Than Nvidia's H100
Hardware

Cerebras Files for $26.6B Nasdaq IPO — The Wafer-Scale AI Chip That's 57x Bigger Than Nvidia's H100

Cerebras Systems plans to raise $3.5 billion at a $26.6 billion valuation on Nasdaq under ticker CBRS, pricing May 13. The company's WSE-3 chip covers an entire 300mm silicon wafer and has a $20B+ supply deal with OpenAI.

May 6, 20265 min read

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