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Wednesday, May 6, 2026
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★ Must ReadGoogle DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals

UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.

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 abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead. Elon Musk took the stand on April 28th as the first witness called, portraying his interest in founding OpenAI as an effort to help save humanity across three days of testimony, before his financial manager and Neuralink CEO, Jared Birchall, took the stand.

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Accelerating Finance Processes with AI-Driven Insights
Intelligence Briefing

Balancing Innovation, Accuracy, and Trust Through a Three-Step Approach

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

Trending on Hacker News with 1297 points and 875 comments.

★ Must ReadWhat matters (or should matter), at the Musk-OpenAI trial

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

Breaking: Autonomous Agents are a Shitshow

Sorry to use a technical term in the title

Qwen3.6 27B vs Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma 4 31B: Accuracy, Latency, Memory, and Token Efficiency Tested

Qwen3. 6 improves on Qwen3. 5, but Gemma 4 remains surprisingly competitive.

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.

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.

🔬Doing Vibe Physics — Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI

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

Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
Joel Khalili, WIRED AI
The AI Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins
Zvi Mowshowitz
🔬Doing Vibe Physics — Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI
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