AI News — Friday, May 8, 2026
32 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
MedQA: Fine-Tuning a Clinical AI on AMD ROCm — No CUDA Required
Why you can never get your doctor to call you back
Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI
OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API
Trump Pivots on AI Regulation, Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office, and Hantavirus Explained
Voi founders’ new AI startup Pit has become the latest rising star out of Stockholm
How to Disable Google's Gemini in Chrome
OpenAI introduces new ‘Trusted Contact’ safeguard for cases of possible self-harm
Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster
Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production
SpaceX has a $55 billion plan to build AI chips in Texas
Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"
ChatGPT’s ‘Trusted Contact’ will alert loved ones of safety concerns
ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin’ Mania in the US. In China It Will ‘Catch You Steadily’
Google unveils screenless Fitbit Air and Google Health app to replace Fitbit
Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI founders to start AI unit inside Tesla
The Download: the tech reshaping IVF and the rise of balcony solar
AI Is Starting to Build Better AI
The balcony solar boom is coming to the US
What’s next for IVF
Chatbots Need Guardrails to Prevent Delusions and Psychosis
Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX
vLLM V0 to V1: Correctness Before Corrections in RL
The Download: seafloor science and military chatbots
Ten Technology Enablers Shaping the Future of 6G Wireless
Adding Benchmaxxer Repellant to the Open ASR Leaderboard
Do We Really Need Smarter AI to Cure Cancer?
Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI