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Cybersecurity 8 min

CYBERSECURITY · 8 May 2026 —

AI-Assisted Attacks Are the New Normal: Mandiant M-Trends 2026 Shows Exploit Windows Have Inverted

Mandiant's M-Trends 2026 report confirms 28.3% of CVEs are now exploited within 24 hours of disclosure — and documents t...

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Cyber Team

8 May

AI & ML 9 min

AI & ML · 8 May 2026 —

Anthropic Takes On Wall Street: Claude's 10 Financial AI Agents Signal the End of Manual Banking Workflows

Anthropic unveiled 10 pre-built financial AI agent templates alongside Claude Opus 4.7, scoring industry-leading 64.37%...

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AI Tools Desk

8 May

Developer Tools 9 min

DEVELOPER TOOLS · 8 May 2026 —

AI Is Rewriting How Software Gets Built: Git Pushes Surge 78% as Claude Code and GitHub Copilot Transform Developer Workflows

Global git push volume surged 78% year-on-year in Q1 2026, driven by Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex — mar...

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RECATOOLS Editorial

8 May

Finance 9 min

FINANCE · 8 May 2026 —

PayPal's AI Reckoning: New CEO Cuts 4,760 Jobs and Bets $1.5 Billion on Machine-Led Transformation

PayPal announced 4,760 job cuts (20% of workforce) as new CEO Enrique Lores restructures the company into three business...

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Finance Desk

8 May

AI & ML 9 min

AI & ML · 8 May 2026 —

China's Open-Source AI Sprint: Four Labs Drop Frontier Coding Models in 12 Days, Closing Gap With Western AI

Four Chinese AI labs — Z.ai, MiniMax, Moonshot, and DeepSeek — released open-weights coding models within 12 days, each...

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AI Tools Desk

8 May

AI & ML 8 min

AI & ML · 8 May 2026 —

OpenAI's $122 Billion Year: Seven Acquisitions, a New Holding Company Model, and the Race to Own Every AI Surface

OpenAI raised $122 billion in 2026, completed seven acquisitions including personal-finance agent Hiro, and restructured...

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AI Tools Desk

8 May

ASEAN Tech 8 min

ASEAN TECH · 8 May 2026 —

ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers Chart Unified Cross-Border Payment Future as Tokenisation Emerges as Next Frontier

The 29th ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers' Meeting endorsed connected cross-border payment architecture and tokenisation, with...

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Jeffrey Tan

8 May

ASEAN Tech 8 min

ASEAN TECH · 8 May 2026 —

From Johor to the World: How the JS-SEZ Is Becoming Southeast Asia's AI Infrastructure Powerhouse

The Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone is rapidly evolving into Southeast Asia's primary AI infrastructure cluster, d...

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RECATOOLS Editorial

8 May

Finance 10 min

FINANCE · 8 May 2026 —

Coinbase Joins PayPal in AI-Driven Job Cuts: Is the Great Fintech Workforce Reset Just Beginning?

Coinbase (14% cuts) and PayPal (20% cuts) announced AI-driven workforce reductions on the same day, capping a wave that...

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Finance Desk

8 May

Health & Wellness 9 min

HEALTH & WELLNESS · 8 May 2026 —

AI Is Coming For Cancer and Obesity: Novo Nordisk's OpenAI Partnership Signals Medicine's Next Frontier

Novo Nordisk has announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to embed AI across drug discovery, clinical trials, manuf...

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RECATOOLS Editorial

8 May

AI & ML 8 min

AI & ML · 8 May 2026 —

Cohere and Aleph Alpha Merge to Build Europe's "Sovereign AI" Champion — But Can It Really Challenge the US-China Duopoly?

Cohere and Aleph Alpha have merged with backing from the Canadian and German governments to create a "sovereign AI" alte...

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AI Tools Desk

8 May

Finance 7 min

FINANCE · 8 May 2026 —

The $860 Billion Agentic Commerce Opportunity: How AI Is Rewiring Global Payments From the Inside Out

PayPal's $860B TAM estimate for its three new business units frames the scale of the agentic commerce opportunity as Str...

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Finance Desk

8 May