Crypto News. May 9, 2026
Anthropic signed a $1.8B deal with Akamai for AI compute infrastructure
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Neuralink announced it is building a surgical robot capable of reaching any brain region
Wonder Studios partnered with ElevenLabs, OpenArt, Mirelo, and InVideo to offer discounts on AI creative tools via Wonder Perks in its mobile app
Claude Mythos helped Firefox fix more security bugs in April than in the previous 15 months combined
ClickUp launched Brain², an AI layer that feeds live company context — projects, decisions, org structure — into models like Claude and GPT, with native MCP connections to Gmail, GitHub, Figma, and Slack
TeraWulf’s HPC leasing revenue hit $21M in Q1, overtaking bitcoin mining revenue for the first time as miners continue pivoting to AI infrastructure
Anthropic found that teaching Claude principled reasoning cut agentic misalignment by over 3x, outperforming behavior-only training and surviving reinforcement learning
Somnia is hosting a 3-week Agentathon from May 20–June 10 with a $5,000 prize pool for builders on its AI-focused L1
Boson Protocol proposed x402B, an on-chain escrow extension to the x402 payment standard for high-value and pseudonymous agent payments
dTelecom launched Origin ID, an on-chain identity tied to participation on dMeetApp
Perplexity published its internal manual for building agent skills
Telegram rolled out 10+ new features including guest AI bot interactions, bot-to-bot workflows, and personal AI assistants attachable to user profiles
Apple and Intel reached a preliminary chip manufacturing agreement, sending INTC up 14%
Vellum raised $25M to build a persistent AI assistant backed by YC, Dharmesh Shah, and Arash Ferdowsi
OpenAI disclosed accidental chain-of-thought grading leaked into some GPT-5 models during RL training — three third-party safety orgs reviewed and found no major monitorability issues
Google is testing a Data Donation feature in NotebookLM that lets users mark notebooks as Donation Safe, allowing usage logs to be shared unscrubbbed for quality improvement
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