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No editor's note for this day — the brief below was assembled automatically from the 32 stories our 8 sources published, clustered by how many outlets ran each one.
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Everything else that day
The rest of the wire for May 8, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.
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- May 8
- Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI Wired
- May 7
- OpenAI introduces new ‘Trusted Contact’ safeguard for cases of possible self-harm TechCrunch
- Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster The Verge
- Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production The Verge
- SpaceX has a $55 billion plan to build AI chips in Texas The Verge
- Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives" Ars Technica
- ChatGPT’s ‘Trusted Contact’ will alert loved ones of safety concerns The Verge
- ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin’ Mania in the US. In China It Will ‘Catch You Steadily’ Wired
- Google unveils screenless Fitbit Air and Google Health app to replace Fitbit Ars Technica
- Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI founders to start AI unit inside Tesla Ars Technica
- The Download: the tech reshaping IVF and the rise of balcony solar MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
- AI Is Starting to Build Better AI IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
- The balcony solar boom is coming to the US MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
- What’s next for IVF MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
- May 6
- Chatbots Need Guardrails to Prevent Delusions and Psychosis IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
- Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX Ars Technica
- vLLM V0 to V1: Correctness Before Corrections in RL Hugging Face
- The Download: seafloor science and military chatbots MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
- Ten Technology Enablers Shaping the Future of 6G Wireless IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
- Adding Benchmaxxer Repellant to the Open ASR Leaderboard Hugging Face
- May 5
- Do We Really Need Smarter AI to Cure Cancer? IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
- Apr 29
- Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built Hugging Face
- Jan 22
- Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
- Jan 19
- Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
- Jan 16
- Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
- Jan 13
- Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI VentureBeat