Hackers Get Paid

Hackers Get Paid

Author: Morning Brew May 12, 2026 Duration: 20:09
Instructure cut a deal with ShinyHunters to return stolen Canvas data, without disclosing the terms. eBay rejected GameStop's $56B bid as "neither credible nor attractive." OpenAI launches Daybreak for cybersecurity, Amazon employees game AI usage targets, and Mira Murati's first model drops. Instructure reaches a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas edtech platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without saying what it gave in return (NYT) eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is "neither credible nor attractive", in a letter from eBay Chairman Paul Pressler (Bloomberg) OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities (TestingCatalog) Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets (FT) AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics: Grok's paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 (WSJ) Thinking Machines Lab details interaction models, which can think and respond in real time, letting users and AI interact continuously for better collaboration (Thinking Machines Lab) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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AI Superapps [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:21
OpenAI is becoming a superapp. Does Amazon really want to try its hand at a smartphone again? Google is making further steps to obviate classic Google Search in that innovator’s dilemma way. And in the Longreads, why has…
The AI Race Is Now A Land Grab For Dev And Design Work [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:31
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Crypto Gets Its Rulebook [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:48
At long last, the government has issued guidance to crypto on what is or is not allowed. The blowup from gamers has caused Jensen to push back. A tale of contrasting IPOs from wildly different industries. And is your bos…
Westworld For Real [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:56
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The Mother Of All Meta Layoffs? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:56
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Is Avocado… Toast? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:16
Meta’s big new AI model is delayed because they still can’t get to state of the art. The social media addiction trial is winding down. All the video apps are going to end up looking exactly like one another eventually. A…
AI Makes Google Maps Sound Much Better [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:13
More AI inspired job cuts. I gotta say, adding AI to Google Maps makes it sound like it might work much, much better. A new entrant into the AI health space. An Iran-war-related hacking takes down a company. And Mark Gur…
The New King Of All Media [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:12
Sources say the US government is investigating Binance around Iranian sanction evasion. Meta is helping authorities worldwide crack down on scammers. YouTube literally now is, officially, the biggest media entity in the…
Meta Plumps For Bot Social Networks [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:10
Meta moves for the social network for AI bots. Code Review for Claude Code seems to be like another revolution for the software development industry. Yan LeCun raises the biggest European seed round of all time. And the…
Claude 365 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:32
Anthropic is fighting the government in court. Microsoft is turning to Anthropic to get agentic in all its productivity products. A big new hyperscaler startup has raised a monster round. And could the war with Iran be s…