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Thursday, May 7, 2026

18 stories · 5 min read

★ Must ReadBarry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.

TechCrunch AI· Sarah Perez· 2 min· 14d agoSource →

01QUICK HITS

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Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

Trending on Hacker News with 409 points and 360 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min

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Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

Trending on Hacker News with 628 points and 355 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min

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Google shuts down Project Mariner

Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired's Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page now contains a message that says: "Thank you for using Project Mariner. It was shut down on May 4th, 2026 and its technology voyaged to other Google products.

The Verge AI · 2 min

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Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla

Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans in 2017 to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.

WIRED AI · 2 min

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Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min

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03THE TENSION2▸

PERSPECTIVE A

“China bans AI partners for minors and lays out AI agent threats”

— AI Safety China

Also in this update: AI ethics review regulations; agent safety standards; a third model AI Law; technical safety papers on agent security, mechanistic interpretability, and AI for science

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PERSPECTIVE B

“The PDF Gets an AI Brain”

— The AI Economy

Adobe's new productivity agent transforms how documents are created, shared, and experienced

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04RESEARCH3▸

★ Must ReadGoogle Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

Trending on Hacker News with 1656 points and 1097 comments.

Hacker News· 1 min· 16d agoSource →

🔬Doing Vibe Physics — Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI

The full story of how GPT‑5. x derived new results in theoretical physics and quantum gravity.

Latent Space· 3 min· 15d agoSource →

What matters (or should matter), at the Musk-OpenAI trial

Gary Marcus — What matters (or should matter), at the Musk-OpenAI trial

Gary Marcus· 3 min· 15d agoSource →

05BUILDERS3▸

Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals!

A celebration of the tweaks and customizations that make life easier at the CLI.

Ars Technica AI· Lee Hutchinson · 2 min· 15d agoSource →

Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack

Daemon Tools users: It's time to check your machines for stealthy infections, stat.

Ars Technica AI· Dan Goodin · 2 min· 15d agoSource →

Why Legal AI Hallucinations Are Three Different Problems, And Most Tools Only Catch One

It takes time to create work that’s clear, independent, and genuinely useful.

AI Made Simple· Devansh· 2 min· 15d agoSource →

06GO DEEP1▸

★ Must Read[AINews] Silicon Valley gets Serious about Services

A series of announcements line up to a big theme: Services are the next big opportunity.

Latent Space· 3 min· 15d agolong readSource →

07VOICES3▸

“Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.”

— Sarah Perez, TechCrunch AI