AI News — Saturday, May 9, 2026
32 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
Musk v. Altman week 2: OpenAI fires back, and Shivon Zilis reveals that Musk tried to poach Sam Altman
Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no.
Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market
Intel’s comeback story is even wilder than it seems
Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews
All the latest updates on AI data centers
Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete, even as revenue hit a record high
CyberSecQwen-4B: Why Defensive Cyber Needs Small, Specialized, Locally-Runnable Models
Chrome's 4GB AI model isn't new, but you're not wrong for being confused
PlayStation sees AI as a ‘powerful tool’ to help make games
Here’s what you need to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak
EMO: Pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity
The “people’s airline” and the enterprise AI gold rush
Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure
Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement’
There’s a Long-Shot Proposal to Protect California Workers From AI
Everybody wants to rule the AI world
The Download: AI malaise and babymaking tech
The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
Here’s how technology transformed babymaking
Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI
Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"
AI Is Starting to Build Better AI
Chatbots Need Guardrails to Prevent Delusions and Psychosis
vLLM V0 to V1: Correctness Before Corrections in RL
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?
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