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Musk v. Altman week 2 · Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better…

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    Everyday life 2 sources

    Musk v. Altman week 2: OpenAI fires back, and Shivon Zilis reveals that Musk tried to poach Sam Altman

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    Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no.

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    Everyday life 1 source

    Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market

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    Your work 1 source

    Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete, even as revenue hit a record high

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    Builders 1 source

    CyberSecQwen-4B: Why Defensive Cyber Needs Small, Specialized, Locally-Runnable Models

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    Chrome's 4GB AI model isn't new, but you're not wrong for being confused

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for May 9, 2026 — 25 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Intel’s comeback story is even wilder than it seems TechCrunch
  2. Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews Ars Technica
  3. All the latest updates on AI data centers The Verge
  4. PlayStation sees AI as a ‘powerful tool’ to help make games The Verge
  5. Here’s what you need to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  6. EMO: Pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity Hugging Face
  7. The “people’s airline” and the enterprise AI gold rush TechCrunch
  8. Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure The Verge
  9. Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement’ Wired
  10. There’s a Long-Shot Proposal to Protect California Workers From AI Wired
  11. Everybody wants to rule the AI world The Verge
  12. The Download: AI malaise and babymaking tech MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys Wired
  14. Here’s how technology transformed babymaking MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  15. Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives" Ars Technica
  16. AI Is Starting to Build Better AI IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  17. Chatbots Need Guardrails to Prevent Delusions and Psychosis IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  18. vLLM V0 to V1: Correctness Before Corrections in RL Hugging Face
  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. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  23. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  24. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
  25. Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI VentureBeat
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