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Yesterday in AI | Saturday, May 9, 2026
Claude Knows When You're Watching
Anthropic built a tool that reads what Claude is actually thinking before it decides what to say, and what they found about its safety behavior will make you think twice about how AI testing works. OpenAI crossed a threshold two years in the making with voice AI that can finally reason in real time. One of tech's most respected infrastructure companies just cut a fifth of its workforce while posting strong earnings, and the market punished them anyway. Plus: a scientific system that's quietly improving the math AI itself runs on, and a data point from China that suggests the AI race looks different depending on which map you're reading.
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