Friday, May 8, 2026

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 7 stories

1. 1OpenAI Releases Three Realtime Audio Models: GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper in the Realtime API78
2. 2OpenAI introduces GPT‑5.5‑Cyber for high-impact cybersecurity research
3. 3Teaching Claude Why

The AI products people actually use. · 28 stories

1. 1A company tested Claude Mythos Preview. It says the AI found a bug that existed for 20 years - Business Insider78
2. 2OpenAI Adds Chrome Extension to Codex, Letting Its AI Agent Access LinkedIn, Salesforce, Gmail, and Internal Tools via Signed-In Sessions
3. 3Mozilla's agentic AI pipeline turns Claude Mythos Preview loose and finds 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 17 stories

1. 1DeepSeek To Raise More than $7 Billion as Startup Plots Revenue Efforts92
2. 2AI money keeps flowing as Deepseek plans record raise and Core Automation quadruples valuation in weeks
3. 3Anthropic weighs deal for near $1tn valuation as revenue surges

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 11 stories

1. 1Big Tech’s $725bn AI spending spree sends free cash flow to a decade low88
2. 2All the latest updates on AI data centers
3. 3Wall Street sees 'changing of the guard in AI' as Intel, AMD shares soar while Nvidia lags

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 38 stories

1. 1Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete, even as revenue hit a record high78
2. 2AI safety tests have a new problem: Models are now faking their own reasoning traces
3. 3Grok convinced a man it was sentient and that xAI had sent assassins to kill him - TechSpot