Anthropic and Wall Street Giants Join Forces to Create New A.I. Firm
Blackstone and Goldman Sachs are among the investors in the new firm, which will help integrate Anthropic’s A.I. model Claude into their systems.
THURSDAY, 07 MAY 2026, 11:55
Blackstone and Goldman Sachs are among the investors in the new firm, which will help integrate Anthropic’s A.I. model Claude into their systems.

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GameStop has made an unsolicited $56 billion cash-and-stock offer to buy eBay (paywalled; alternative source), with CEO Ryan Cohen arguing he can turn the marketplace into a far larger Amazon competitor. “EBay should be worth — and will be worth — a lot more money,” Cohen said in an interview. “I’m thinking about turning eBay into something worth hundreds of billions of dollars.” The Wall...
Astronomers have identified 27 potential new circumbinary planets — worlds that orbit two stars, like Star Wars’ Tatooine. “To date, only about 18 circumbinary planets … had been identified in the universe,” reports the Guardian. “More than 6,000 planets have been discovered that orbit single stars, like Earth does around the sun.” The Guardian reports: In a timely publication for May 4, also...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In a makeshift demonstration kitchen in Concord, California, cooking oil splatters in and around a frying pan, which catches fire on an unattended gas stove. Within moments, a smoke detector wails. But in this demonstration, something less common happens: An AI-driven sensor activates and wall emitters blast infrasound waves toward the...

Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the man—who hasn’t entered the US in more than a decade—following posts on X condemning the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Exclusive: Sperm re-transplant offers hope that boys left infertile by chemotherapy could have biological children one day
In a groundbreaking fertility trial, a man whose testicular tissue was frozen before he underwent chemotherapy as a child to be re-transplanted 16 years later has been able to produce sperm.
It is the first time a transplant of cryopreserved prepubertal testicular tissue...

Metalenz’s Polar ID face-scanning technology works even when the camera is hidden under the display.

The launch of the new studio follows a year of readership growth and rising advertiser demand.

Microsoft and Postel, a Poste Italiane Group company, announce an evolution of their collaboration and of the agreements they have signed for the digitalization of Italian businesses, welcoming Audiencerate as technology partner in the Data and Direct & Digital Marketing space.

Intel’s Panther Lake and its 18A manufacturing node have put the US chip maker back in the fight with Apple and AMD.

Launched in 2023, eFama is a marketplace app that connects farmers with buyers, simplifying the agricultural supply chain and improving access to fresh produce.

Rasan Information Technology Company (Tadawul: 8313), the leading Insurtech and Fintech platform in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, today announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2026, delivering highest ever quarterly revenue, accelerated profitability, and broad-based growth across all products.

The utility is advertising for a hardware asset tracking and recovery tool with an estimated 20 000 licences.
The Independent reports that “more than a third of children in the UK have found a way around age verification measures” for social media sites and other online platforms. And new research from online safety organisation Internet Matters “suggests one in six parents have helped their child to get past age verification checks, with children reporting ‘tricking’ platforms into thinking they are...

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On Star Wars Day, we put to rest a question that has bedeviled sci-fi nerds for years.

The first two episodes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new podcast feature him discoursing on food with a reality-TV chef and, for some reason, Mike Tyson. Vaccines are not on the agenda.

The Competition Commission alleges the firms entered into an agreement to divide markets, in contravention of the Competition Act.

The payments infrastructure provider behind several South African online retailers adds buy-now-pay-later functionality.

The sequencing reflects how stubbornly low-end devices and machine-to-machine sensors remain tied to legacy connectivity.