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