Thursday, May 7, 2026

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 6 stories

1. 1Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B: A Reasoning MoE Trained on AMD Hardware That Punches Far Above Its Weight Class78
2. 2Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text
3. 3Advancing voice intelligence with new models in the API

The AI products people actually use. · 56 stories

1. 1Perplexity’s Personal Computer is now available to everyone on Mac - TechCrunch78
2. 2Google's New 24/7 AI Agent Can Make Purchases on Your Behalf - Droid Life
3. 3Perplexity’s Personal Computer is now available everyone on Mac

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 20 stories

1. 1China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open-source AI skyrockets92
2. 2Open-source AI developer Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B+ valuation
3. 3Akamai shares surge 26% on $1.8B AI infrastructure deal as earnings meet estimates

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 17 stories

1. 1CoreWeave’s Balancing Act92
2. 2SpaceX has a $55 billion plan to build AI chips in Texas
3. 3How Anthropic's 80x growth blew past its own infrastructure and straight into Musk's data center

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 51 stories

1. 1Cloudflare stock sinks 18% after earnings as company cuts 1,100 employees due to AI changes78
2. 2Report: As AI electricity demands soar, Microsoft weighs retreat from ambitious carbon-free energy pledge
3. 3Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web