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Saturday, May 9, 2026
18 stories · 5 min read

★ Must Read[AINews] Anthropic growing 10x/year while everyone else is laying off >10% of their workforce

A quiet day lets us reflect on an interesting dichotomy in the economy.

The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
WIRED AI

These cuddly, connected companions could disrupt everything from make-believe to bedtime stories. No wonder some lawmakers want them banned.

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MTP Layers for Gemma 4 and My Projects in Progress
Kaitchup

Kaitchup — MTP Layers for Gemma 4 and My Projects in Progress

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★ Must ReadAgents and ROI

Remember that MIT study that showed that the ROI for generative AI wasn’t really there for most businesses?

Breaking news: “they hadn’t figured out how OpenAI would pay for it”

Gary Marcus — Breaking news: “they hadn’t figured out how OpenAI would pay...

An Update on the Timing Industry

More Than Moore — An Update on the Timing Industry

★ Must ReadVibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like

Plus updates from Anthropic's Code w/ Claude conference

What I Learned About Time 🕰️

11 Ideas from Laura Vanderkam's New Book on Time Abundance

Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals

Across the country, schools and colleges postpone year-end tests.

[AINews] GPT-Realtime-2, -Translate, and -Whisper: new SOTA realtime voice APIs

Latent Space — [AINews] GPT-Realtime-2, -Translate, and -Whisper: new SOTA ...

The “people’s airline” and the enterprise AI gold rush
Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, Sean O'Kane, Theresa Loconsolo, TechCrunch AI
Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure
Tom Warren, The Verge AI
MTP Layers for Gemma 4 and My Projects in Progress
Benjamin Marie, Kaitchup