AI News Archive: May 8, 2026 — Part 2
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- Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI
Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018.
Score: 61🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-executives-discuss-openai-sam-altman-2018/ - Tech Unemployment Ticks Up to 3.8% in April Amid AI-Driven Layoffs
The job market for information-technology workers remains murky as tech companies shed personnel.
- Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods reach late testing in AI device push
Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods reach late testing in AI device push The Mercury News
Score: 60🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/05/08/apples-camera-equipped-airpods-reach-late-testing-in-ai-device-push/ - Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy
In a word, 'Huh?'
- Elon Musk could lose his case against OpenAI — and still get what he wants
So, what’s a guy got to do to become a billionaire around here? Greg Brockman scribbled the question in his diary, recently unsealed as trial evidence, just two years after co-founding OpenAI as a charity in 2015: “Financially, what will take me to $1B?” For Brockman, now OpenAI’s president, the answer was a yearslong restructuring […]
- Google is launching an AI Health Coach. Here’s what it’s all about
Google has announced the Google Health Coach, a Gemini-powered personal wellness assistant baked into a rebranded Google Health app. Here's everything you need to know about pricing, features, and availability.
- OpenAI and Anthropic just met with religious leaders at the ‘Faith-AI Covenant.’ Here’s why
As concerns mount over artificial intelligence and its rapid integration into society, tech companies are increasingly turning to faith leaders for guidance on how to shape the technology — a surprising about-face on Silicon Valley’s longstanding skepticism of organized religion . Leaders from various religious groups met last week with representatives from companies including Anthropic and OpenAI for the inaugural “Faith-AI Covenant” roundtable in New York to discuss how best to infuse morality and ethics into the fast-developing technology. It was organized by the Geneva-based Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities, which seeks to take on issues such as extremism, radicalization and human trafficking. The roundtable is expected to be the first of several around the globe, including in Beijing, Nairobi and Abu Dhabi. Tech executives need to recognize their power — and their responsibility — to make the right decisions, said Baroness Joanna Shields, a key partner in the initiative.
- AIAI Holdings Corporation Announces Approval to List Common Stock on NASDAQ
AIAI Holdings Corporation Announces Approval to List Common Stock on NASDAQ USA Today
- Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure
When OpenAI was busy experimenting with AI-powered gaming bots, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were in the early days of forming an AI partnership. Court documents from the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial have provided a rare look at the communications between Microsoft's top executives about investing in OpenAI and fears […]
Score: 60🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://www.theverge.com/report/926771/microsoft-openai-amazon-worries-shit-talk-azure - ServiceNow hits $1 billion in AWS Marketplace transactions as enterprises rapidly adopt AI at scale
ServiceNow the AI control tower for business reinvention, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced a platform expansion as companies rapidly deploy and scale agentic AI across the enterprise, which follows a significant milestone of ServiceNow AWS Marketplace transactions surpassing $1 billion. The expansion introduces a governance architecture for mutual customers built on ServiceNow AI Control Tower and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore; […] The post ServiceNow hits $1 billion in AWS Marketplace transactions as enterprises rapidly adopt AI at scale appeared first on CXOToday.com .
- China and US in AI revolution race as tech rivals battle for global supremacy
At a New York City ballroom late last month, a crowd of hi-tech luminaries gathered at an honours ceremony. The biggest draw for the assembled tech geniuses was Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, the superstar head of one of the world’s most valuable companies, set to receive the night’s top award. In some ways, engineers have been at the centre of every industrial revolution, Huang told the crowd, from steam to electricity to information technology. But this one, artificial intelligence (AI), will be...
- Sony and Bandai get into bed with generative AI
The company also outlined AI's role in the future of PlayStation.
Score: 60🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://www.engadget.com/2167841/sony-and-bandai-get-into-bed-with-generative-ai/ - Elon Musk signs Anthropic deal amid OpenAI trial: Week in AI
Here's what you need to know this week about AI in the Bay Area.
- Anthropic cozies up to Elon Musk, IBM makes its case to win in AI, and Cerebras has big IPO plans
Money, and desperation, sure can pave over a lot of ill will. This week’s example: Anthropic signed a mammoth deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use all of the computing capacity of SpaceX’s Colossus data center full of AI chips. Yes, that Elon Musk, the one who until this week liked to call Anthropic Misanthropic, […] The post Anthropic cozies up to Elon Musk, IBM makes its case to win in AI, and Cerebras has big IPO plans appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Score: 60🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/08/anthropic-cozies-elon-musk-ibm-makes-case-win-ai-cerebras-big-ipo-plans/ - The Tech Download: Meta, Google enter AI agent race as ‘agentic wars’ heat up
The viral personal assistant OpenClaw has triggered a rush among Big Tech to build agentic tools.
Score: 60🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/ai-agent-meta-google-agentic-wars-tech-download.html - The U.S. suspects a Thai AI firm was smuggling Nvidia chips to Alibaba in China
Bangkok-based OBON Corp is identified as the unnamed Southeast Asian middleman in a $2.5 billion chip diversion scheme
- Anthropic’s Microsoft 365 Integration Expands With Claude for Excel, PowerPoint and Word
Anthropic, on Thursday, announced the general availability of several of its Microsoft 365 add-ins. Eligible users can now access the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot inside Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Additionally, the San Francisco-based AI startup also announced that Claude’s integration with Outlook was pushed to public beta, which means it is als...
- TGI AMIRON Alliance Launches AXINOD(TM): A Sovereign AI Utility Platform Integrating Energy and High-Density Compute
TGI AMIRON Alliance Launches AXINOD(TM): A Sovereign AI Utility Platform Integrating Energy and High-Density Compute USA Today
- Wall Street sees 'changing of the guard in AI' as Intel, AMD shares soar while Nvidia lags
Intel, AMD and Micron surged double digits this week as investors bet on CPU makers and memory companies powering the next stage of AI
Score: 59🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/wall-street-ai-chip-love-moves-from-nvidia-to-intel-amd-and-micron.html - SpaceX rents AI to Anthropic
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- Elon Musk’s SpaceX Plans $55 Billion Investment to Make A.I. Chips
The rocket company’s new semiconductor factory, called Terafab, is part of the billionaire’s increasing efforts to dominate artificial intelligence.
- The rise of AI agents: Google’s secret project Remy goes beyond chat
Synopsis: Google is internally testing Remy, a new always-on AI agent designed as a proactive 24/7 personal assistant. Unlike traditional chatbots, Remy can monitor information, learn user preferences, and handle complex tasks independently. Currently trialed by Google employees, it may debut at Google I/O 2026, signaling the rise of agentic AI.
- Elon Musk faces criminal probe in France as prosecutors escalate X's AI Investigation
Paris prosecutors have escalated an investigation of Elon Musk and his social network X to a criminal probe.
- Google replaces Fitbit app with AI-powered Google Health platform: Details
Google is replacing the Fitbit app with the new Google Health app, adding Gemini-powered AI coaching, redesigned wellness tools, and deeper health tracking features
- AI safety tests have a new problem: Models are now faking their own reasoning traces
Anthropic's Natural Language Autoencoders make Claude Opus 4.6's internal activations readable as plain text. Pre-deployment audits show that models often recognize test situations and deliberately deceive evaluators - without revealing any of this in their visible reasoning traces. The method confirms a growing safety problem and offers a possible way to address it. The article AI safety tests have a new problem: Models are now faking their own reasoning traces appeared first on The Decoder .
Score: 58🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://the-decoder.com/ai-safety-tests-have-a-new-problem-models-are-now-faking-their-own-reasoning-traces/ - Teaching Claude why
Teaching Claude why
- Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots
Hard drives are so expensive now that archival efforts are being hurt as a result of the AI boom snatching all production lines. Organizations like Wikimedia and the Internet Archive are just about keeping up with the rising costs, but individual preservationists have given up for the time being. This is all on top of websites blocking scraping bots because of AI.
- New AI tool predicts airport traffic to avert devastating collisions
In managing airport traffic, small errors can cause catastrophe. A group from the CMU Robotics Institute's AirLab used the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Bridges-2 supercomputer to create World2Rules, an AI that draws from airport data and historical crash reports to help human controllers spot collisions before they happen. Their paper is published on the arXiv preprint server.
- Google opens its smartest Gmail writing feature to basically everyone
Google is rolling out Gmail's new 'Help me write' upgrades to almost everyone with a Workspace or Premium account.
Score: 58🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://www.androidauthority.com/gmail-help-me-write-upgrades-wide-rollout-3665099/ - Anthropic courts competitors to ease data center crunch
Anthropic courts competitors to ease data center crunch Nikkei Asia
- OpenAI closes reasoning gap in voice agents
PLUS: Test multiple AI models with the same prompt, fast
- IndiaAI & ICMR Sign MoU to Build Ethical AI Ecosystem for Indian Healthcare
The collaboration aims to strengthen the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare through shared datasets, AI research and public health innovation.
- While You Manage 120 Passwords, AI Is Deleting Databases and Governments Are Blocking the Web
While You Manage 120 Passwords, AI Is Deleting Databases and Governments Are Blocking the Web PCMag
Score: 57🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://www.pcmag.com/news/while-you-manage-120-passwords-ai-is-deleting-databases-and-governments - 5% GPU utilization: The $401 billion AI infrastructure problem enterprises can't keep ignoring
For the last 24 months, one narrative justified every over-provisioned data center and bloated IT budget: the GPU scramble. Silicon was the new oil, and H100s traded like contraband. Reserve capacity now or your enterprise would be left behind. The bill is now due, and the CFO is paying attention. Gartner estimates AI infrastructure is adding $401 billion in new spending this year . Real-world audits tell a darker story: average GPU utilization in the enterprise is stuck at 5% . That utilization floor is driven by a self-reinforcing procurement loop that makes idle GPUs nearly impossible to release. What makes this shift more urgent is the CapEx reality now hitting enterprise balance sheets. Many organizations locked in GPU capacity under traditional three- to five-year depreciation cycles, with the hyperscalers being at five years. That means the infrastructure purchased during the peak of the “GPU scramble” is now a fixed cost, regardless of how much it is actually used. As those ass
- IRS 'Dirty Dozen' Scam List for 2026 Targets AI-Powered Fraud - Clear Start Tax Shares How to Protect Your Tax Identity
IRS 'Dirty Dozen' Scam List for 2026 Targets AI-Powered Fraud - Clear Start Tax Shares How to Protect Your Tax Identity USA Today
- Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its new code
Airbnb also said its customer support AI bot now handles 40% of issues without escalating to a human agent.
Score: 56🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/airbnb-says-ai-now-writes-60-of-its-new-code/ - SoftBank reportedly slashes OpenAI-backed loan from $10 billion to $6 billion as lenders balk at private AI valuations
SoftBank has reduced a loan secured by OpenAI shares from 10 to around 6 billion dollars. Lenders are apparently reluctant to reliably assess the value of an unlisted company like OpenAI. The article SoftBank reportedly slashes OpenAI-backed loan from $10 billion to $6 billion as lenders balk at private AI valuations appeared first on The Decoder .
- S&P 500 and Nasdaq notch records, boosted by AI and earnings optimism
S&P 500 and Nasdaq notch records, boosted by AI and earnings optimism Reuters
Score: 56💰 MoneyMay 8, 2026https://www.reuters.com/business/us-stock-futures-rise-chips-rebound-ahead-jobs-data-2026-05-08/ - Gmail’s AI Inbox may redefine deliverability
AI-generated summaries and prioritization could determine which emails actually get seen and which disappear into the background. The post Gmail’s AI Inbox may redefine deliverability appeared first on MarTech .
- Uber’s robotaxi partner crashed 16 times in four months. The regulator called it “excessively assertive and insufficiently capable.”
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride, Uber’s autonomous vehicle partner, after identifying 16 crashes and one minor injury in the four months since the company launched its robotaxi service in Dallas. The regulator’s language is unusually blunt: the vehicles displayed “excessive assertiveness and insufficient capability,” a phrase that could […] This story continues at The Next Web
Score: 56🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://thenextweb.com/news/avride-uber-robotaxi-crashes-nhtsa-investigation - OpenAI Codex Gets Computer Use, Browser, and PR Reviews — Now the Strongest Claude Code Rival
OpenAI Codex gets reviews, now a strong Claude Code rival
- Nintendo Switch 2 price hikes are coming and you can thank the AI data center building boom
If you’ve been debating whether or not to pick up a Nintendo Switch 2 then you’ll want to act soon. Nintendo says it is raising the Switch 2’s price from $450 to $500 in the U.S. due to “changes in market conditions,” most notably the global shortage of random access memory (RAM). The change is set to go into effect on September 1. Similar price increases will simultaneously occur in Canada ($630 CAD to $680 CAD) and Europe (€470 to €500). In Japan, the system’s MSRP (manufacturer’s suggested retail price) will rise a bit earlier, going from ¥49,980 to ¥59,980 on May 25. Nintendo blames the widespread change on the fact that market condition changes are likely to have an impact “over the medium to long term.” Sony pointed to similar factors in March when it raised the PlayStation 5’s price by up to $150. “We sincerely apologize for the impact these price revisions may have on our customers and other stakeholders and we deeply appreciate your understanding,” Nintendo stated in its annou
- Uber partner Avride is under investigation for self-driving crashes
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride after identifying more than a dozen crashes and one minor injury.
Score: 55🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/uber-partner-avride-is-under-investigation-for-self-driving-crashes/ - NCAR develops AI tools to improve severe weather forecasting
NCAR develops AI tools to improve severe weather forecasting The Denver Post
Score: 55🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://www.denverpost.com/2026/05/08/ncar-develops-ai-tools-to-improve-severe-weather-forecasting/ - An AI agent rewrote a Fortune 50 security policy. Here's how to govern AI agents before one does the same.
A CEO’s AI agent rewrote the company’s security policy. Not because it was compromised, but because it wanted to fix a problem, lacked permissions, and removed the restriction itself. Every identity check passed. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz disclosed the incident and a second one at his RSAC 2026 keynote , both at Fortune 50 companies. The credential was valid. The access was authorized. The action was catastrophic. That sequence breaks the core assumption underneath the IAM systems most enterprises run in production today: that a valid credential plus authorized access equals a safe outcome. Identity systems were built for one user, one session, one set of hands on a keyboard. Agents break all three assumptions at once. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat at RSAC 2026, Matt Caulfield, VP of Identity and Duo at Cisco, (pictured above) walked through the architecture his team is building to close that gap and outlined a six-stage identity maturity model for governing agentic AI.
Score: 55🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://venturebeat.com/security/cisco-crowdstrike-rsac-2026-agent-identity-iam-gap-maturity-model - Meta wants AI to become the internet’s age verification tool
Meta wants AI to become the internet’s age verification tool YourStory.com
Score: 55🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://yourstory.com/ai-story/meta-ai-age-assurance-instagram-facebook-2026 - Genesis AI Releases GENE-26.5: Humanoid Robot Finally Takes On Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry
Genesis AI, a French robotics startup, has released its first foundation model GENE-26.5 — featuring a robot that autonomously cracks eggs, cuts tomatoes, makes smoothies, solves Rubik's cubes, and organizes cables. The company's approach: large-scale human operation data pretraining combined with simulation closed-loop evaluation, moving robot manipulation toward a foundation model training paradigm.
- NHTSA says the Tesla Model Y is the first car to pass its new safety tests. The agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Teslas for crashing.
The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that the Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle to pass NHTSA’s new advanced driver assistance safety tests. The same agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Tesla vehicles for crashing while using the company’s more advanced self-driving system. The announcement celebrates Tesla for passing a test that measures […] This story continues at The Next Web
- AWS adds agentic payment features to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted a set of features that artificial intelligence agents can use to make purchases. The capabilities are available in preview through the cloud giant’s Amazon Bedrock AgentCore service. It’s a suite of tools that companies can use to build and maintain AI agents. Bedrock AgentCore also eases certain related tasks, such […] The post AWS adds agentic payment features to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Score: 55🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/07/aws-adds-agentic-payment-features-amazon-bedrock-agentcore/ - Nvidia Stock Heads for Record as AI Push Expands
Nvidia Stock Heads for Record as AI Push Expands Barron's
Score: 55🌐 MovesMay 8, 2026https://www.barrons.com/articles/nvidia-stock-price-iren-ai-deal-bdfabcae