North Korean Hackers Leverage AI to Identify Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities, Google Report Warns

• Major tech companies are investing trillions of dollars in infrastructure to develop and run generative AI models, showing signs of a speculative bubble, warns a new Open Markets Institute report by fellow Matthew Sherer. • The report identifies hallmarks of dangerous financial bubbles in the AI boom and calls on policymakers to resist future bailout demands for failing firms.

• Bucharest-based DesignVerse, an AI-driven startup modernizing aviation infrastructure software, secured €4.6 million ($5.5 million) in seed funding. • The funding follows a successful software upgrade project with EUROCONTROL, Europe's air traffic management organization, enhancing enterprise tools across the continent.

• Shanghai unveiled an AI-powered aviation science fiction theme park in its Lingang New Area, opening to media on Monday, centered on China's Nantianmen Project for immersive aerospace experiences. • The park features interactive exhibits simulating moon landings, hypersonic flight, dual-mode propulsion, metamaterial stealth, directed-energy weapons, and AI decision-making, with a full-scale 'Baidi' sci-fi fighter jet model for pre-flight simulations.

• Many telecom operators and businesses in emerging markets remain vulnerable to persistent AI-enabled cyber attacks despite increased 5G era cybersecurity vigilance and standard defensive measures. • Recent high-profile incidents including CloudFlare breaches demonstrate that even major infrastructure providers struggle against the evolving threat landscape as AI enables cyber threats to mutate beyond established legacy defenses.

• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a May 7, 2026 alert on growing dangers to global financial stability from artificial intelligence, warning that AI is simultaneously empowering both defensive and offensive cyber capabilities. • Advanced AI models now dramatically reduce the time and cost required to uncover and exploit system vulnerabilities, enabling faster and more widespread attacks that could cascade across interconnected financial markets and infrastructure.

• London-based Recursive Superintelligence, founded in 2025 by former leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, and Uber AI, has raised $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation in a round led by GV and Greycroft with participation from AMD Ventures and NVIDIA. • The startup's core technology approach focuses on automating the AI research process itself, developing systems capable of improving their own architecture, training methods, and evaluation processes without continuous human oversight.

• South Korea is preparing new measures to counter AI-powered cyberattacks after concerns raised by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, according to a May 13 cybersecurity roundup. • The reported policy response reflects rising fears that advanced AI tools could lower the barrier for phishing, malware development, and automated intrusion attempts.

• Uber’s India data-centre bet is being framed as part of a broader tech and cost strategy, with the company weighing infrastructure choices as AI-driven risk rises. • The coverage notes that about 90% of advanced AI users are trimming some form of business process outsourcing spend, underscoring how automation is reshaping enterprise budgets.

• Tencent is reported to be joining a $4 billion funding round for Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which would value the company at about $50 billion and mark its first external financing. • The report says the round would add fresh capital to one of China’s most watched AI model developers, with Tencent and other large investors among the backers.

• The Producer Price Index (PPI) for final demand increased 1.4 percent in April 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with prices rising 6.0 percent over the 12-month period. • Final demand services advanced 1.2 percent while final demand goods increased 2.0 percent, showing divergence in price pressures across economic sectors.

• CME Group and Silicon Data announced a new derivatives market allowing investors to bet on cloud computing power prices for AI workloads, launching a tradeable contract based on GPU rental benchmarks. • The compute futures market enables investors to lock in pricing for graphics processing unit capacity, hedging against volatility in AI infrastructure costs as demand surges.