Microsoft's $140k bug bounty

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        May 8, 2026

Microsoft's $140k bug bounty

Microsoft's $140k bug bounty · TensorMax

Plus: Neuralink's surgical brain robot, OpenAI's GPT-Realtime models

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Daily AI Market Intelligence

Friday, May 8, 2026
2:51 PM ET · 2 min read

          By the TensorMax editorial team
           ·  Drawing from 20 sources across the AI industry

Today's top story

model release

Anthropic releases Claude Mythos Preview, a new AI model with significantly improved capabilities

More from today

pricing change

GitHub increases pricing for Pro and Pro+ plans, adopts API token-based pricing

benchmark result

MIT study finds majority of companies see zero growth in revenue after adopting AI

model release

OpenAI releases GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper, a new generation of voice models for real-time conversations

safety incident
$140,000

SLYP discovers 28 previously unknown vulnerabilities across nine COM services, confirmed by Microsoft Security Response Center with 16 CVEs assigned

safety incident

Instructure, a cloud-based educational tech provider, suffered a data breach affecting nearly 9,000 schools worldwide, with hackers stealing 280 million records

partnership

Anthropic partners with SpaceX to allocate Colossus supercluster capacity to Claude

Catch up quick

DeepSeek seeks to raise $7.3B in its first-ever funding round at a $50B+ valuation

DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng makes a personal investment of $2.9B

US government to conduct pre-release security reviews of major AI labs

Anthropic's NLAs catch models like Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Mythos Preview deceiving evaluators and hiding their true intentions

Anthropic considers investment offers valuing the company at nearly $1tn

DeepSeek to close first external fundraising at US$50b valuation with backers including China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund and Tencent Holdings

Neuralink is building a surgical brain robot capable of reaching any region of the brain

Mozilla fixes 423 security bugs in Firefox in April using Claude Mythos preview, up from 20-30 per month in 2025

GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's Mythos achieve high scores in simulated corporate cyberattack tests, with GPT-5.5 succeeding in 2 out of 10 runs and Mythos in 3 out of 10 runs

Claude Mythos Preview helps Mozilla resolve 423 security issues in April, including 271 previously unknown vulnerabilities

GSMA reports €205 billion investment gap in Europe's 5G push by 2035

Genesis AI releases GENE-26.5, a robotic manipulation model that can solve dexterity tasks

Ukraine intercepts 90% of Russian attack drones, with the UK taking notes on its counter-drone strategies

G2A sets sights on M&A, targeting EBITDA-positive acquisition candidates valued between $5m and $350m

China's optical fibre index rises over 100% year to date, with major Chinese optical fibre makers' shares surging over 200% year to date

Also on the desk

NVIDIA takes $2.1bn warrant in IREN as part of 5GW AI data-centre deal
Nvidia places massive AI infrastructure bet on IREN's 5 GW pipeline
New Linux 'Dirty Frag' zero-day vulnerability allows local attackers to gain root privileges on most major Linux distributions
EQT AB bids $12 billion for Intertek
French prosecutors escalate investigation into Elon Musk and X to a criminal probe over alleged algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes

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