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Musk v. Altman week 1 · Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft

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    Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI’s models

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    Builders 2 sources

    Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks

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    Money 1 source

    Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell

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    Money 1 source

    Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

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    A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat

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    Did you know you can’t steal a charity? Don’t worry. Elon Musk will remind you.

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for May 2, 2026 — 21 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Study: AI models that consider user's feeling are more likely to make errors Ars Technica
  2. Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines Ars Technica
  3. Cyber-Insecurity in the AI Era MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  4. GPT-5.5 matches heavily hyped Mythos Preview in new cybersecurity tests Ars Technica
  5. Operationalizing AI for Scale and Sovereignty MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  6. AI Processing of Earth Images Can Now Run in Space IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  7. Christian content creators are outsourcing AI slop to gig workers on Fiverr The Verge
  8. The Download: a new Christian phone network, and debugging LLMs MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  9. Good Luck Getting a Mac Mini for the Next ‘Several Months’ Wired
  10. Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped? Wired
  11. DAIMON Robotics Wants to Give Robot Hands a Sense of Touch IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  12. AI evals are becoming the new compute bottleneck Hugging Face
  13. Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built Hugging Face
  14. Can Biologists Rewrite the Genome’s Spaghetti Code? IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  15. DeepInfra on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥 Hugging Face
  16. Better Hardware Could Turn Zeros into AI Heroes IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  17. Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Long-Context Multimodal Intelligence for Documents, Audio and Video Agents Hugging Face
  18. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  19. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  20. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
  21. Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI VentureBeat
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