AI Daily Report — 2026-05-07

Other/Independent

• Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off — TechCrunch AI Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shor…
• Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’ — TechCrunch AI The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity’s AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.
• Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows — TechCrunch AI Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, but also a demo showcasing a set of robotic hands performing…
• Tinder owner Match Group is slowing hiring to pay for its increased use of AI tools — TechCrunch AI Match Group said that it’s slowing its hiring plans for the rest of the year because AI tools “cost a lot of money.”
• Apple to pay $250M to settle lawsuit over Siri’s delayed AI features — TechCrunch AI Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit for overpromising the arrival of Siri’s AI features.
• Ethos raises $22.75M from a16z for its expert network with voice onboarding — TechCrunch AI Ethos says it is onboarding 35,000 experts per week.
• 3 days left to lock in 50% off a second ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — TechCrunch AI Three days left to lock in 50% off a second ticket to Disrupt 2026. Buy one TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket, and get a second ticket at 50% off. Gain more visibility in the tech industry. Offer ends Ma…
• AI boom pushes Samsung to $1T — TechCrunch AI Samsung crossed the $1 trillion valuation mark after shares surged on AI-driven chip demand, making it only the second Asian company after TSMC to hit the milestone.
• Peter Sarlin’s QuTwo reaches $380M valuation in angel round — TechCrunch AI Enterprise AI will be QuTwo’s bread and butter. “AI is the north star that we will continue to aim for. Quantum is just a new type of compute,” said Sarlin, who is adamant that QuTwo is an AI company.
• Marc Lore says that AI will soon enable anyone to open a restaurant — TechCrunch AI Wonder wants to turn its robotic kitchens into AI-powered “restaurant factories,” letting anyone spin up a virtual food brand with a prompt.
• Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability — The Verge AI I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone’s minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testif…
• Appearing productive in the workplace — Hacker News AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.
• Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like — Hacker News I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my …
• ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch? — Hacker News Turning ideas into full software projects from scratch has become a popular use case for language models. Agents are being deployed to seed, maintain, and grow codebases over extended periods with min…
• Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA — Hacker News Learn how NVIDIA helped Unsloth to make fine-tuning AI models 20% faster with explanations and diagrams.
• ZAYA1-8B: An 8B Moe Model with 760M Active Params Matching DeepSeek-R1 on Math — Hacker News Who should care If you work with math, science problems, or complex coding tasks and you’re looking for something small enough to run locally or cheaply via API, this is worth serious evaluation. The …
• Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs — Hacker News A test runner for agentskills.io-style AI agent skills - darkrishabh/agent-skills-eval
• Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem — Hacker News Run AI agents and pipelines on real production data. Every run is a transaction you can roll back, with every network call audited and GitHub, S3, and Drive composed as one versioned filesystem.
• Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model — Hacker News A deep dive on flow maps.
• Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions — Hacker News A self-contained full-text search engine in pure PHP. No extensions, no dependencies. - olivier-ls/php-fts
• Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer — Hacker News Try the Templatical drag-and-drop email editor in this interactive playground. Build, preview, and export email templates directly in your browser.
• Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy — Hacker News Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. Humans …
• Programming Still Sucks — Hacker News Sorry Peter. — I’m at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there’s always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this…
• Knitting bullshit — Hacker News ‘Unraveling AI’s ‘Knitting Bullshit’
• ADT says customer data stolen in cyber intrusion — Hacker News The home security company ADT said cybercriminals breached company systems on Monday and stole a “limited set” of customer and prospective customer information.
• Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software — Hacker News How Apple’s vibe coding crackdown collides with software that doesn’t hold still
• Building the deployment tool I wish I had — Hacker News Deptool is a new declarative configuration deployment tool that I built for myself. In this post I describe the design, and I explain what problems it solves.
• Firm solar and storage costs fall to $54/MWh, says IRENA — Hacker News A new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) finds that round‑the‑clock solar and wind paired with battery storage deliver power at lower cost than new fossil fuel generation in h…
• Mealy Machines, Moore Machines, and Why Event Sourcing Works — Hacker News Most event sourcing tutorials teach developers to store events instead of current state, and stop there. Let’s go deeper. Automata theory explains why event sourcing works, what properties transitions…
• Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents — Hacker News According to reporting by iPhone in Canada and The Globe and Mail, Telus is using AI through its Telus Digital unit to modify call-centre agents’ accents in real time. iPhone in Canada reports…

anthropic

• DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round — TechCrunch AI The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on a fraction of the compute power and at a fraction of the cost of the big U.S. models like tho…
• Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX — Hacker News

google

• Google updates AI search to include quotes from Reddit and other sources — TechCrunch AI While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this design choice could also prove chaotic.
• Google shuts down Project Mariner — The Verge AI 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 n…
• How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House — The Verge AI Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington intrigue. (It’s basically House of Cards, but for nerds.) Not a subscriber yet? You …
• Google’s AI search summaries will now quote Reddit — The Verge AI Google is updating its AI Search features to make it easier for users to find information from sources they know and trust. One of the more notable changes introduces “a preview of perspectives” from …
• Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage — The Verge AI Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser’s system folders. User…
• Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA — Hacker News Today at Next ‘26, we’re launching Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the trust platform for the agentic web and the next evolution of reCAPTCHA.
• RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google — Hacker News Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam’s blog post where they said that “most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds” - I wondered if that was true for my…
• Google tools for customizing searches — Hacker News 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won’t, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

microsoft

• Microsoft’s Office and LinkedIn chief now runs Teams in latest reshuffle — The Verge AI Microsoft’s LinkedIn chief, Ryan Roslansky, took on an expanded role at the company as head of Office last year, and he’s now getting more responsibilities as part of the latest leadership reshuffle i…

openai

• Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says. — TechCrunch AI Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
• How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman — TechCrunch AI Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.
• Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn’t trust Sam Altman’s words — The Verge AI Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model. In a video deposition shown during the ongoing Musk v. Altman …
• Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI — The Verge AI Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoni…

xai

• Is xAI a neocloud now? — TechCrunch AI xAI’s real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.

Generated at 2026-05-07T10:43:30Z | Sources: r/artificial, r/MachineLearning, r/LocalLLaMA, r/ChatGPT, HackerNews, TechCrunch AI, The Verge AI, Ars Technica AI