AI News for May 8, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Cloudflare cuts 1,100 employees, citing 'agentic AI era': Cloudflare is laying off more than 1,100 staff, roughly a fifth of its workforce, as CEO Matthew Prince restructures around what he calls the agentic AI era.
[TOOLS] Mozilla says Mythos found 271 Firefox bugs with 'almost no false positives': Mozilla detailed its use of Anthropic's Mythos AI to find 271 latent security flaws in Firefox over two months, including a sandbox escape and a 15-year-old HTML parsing bug.
[TOOLS] OpenAI ships GPT-Realtime-2 with GPT-5-class reasoning for voice: OpenAI released three new realtime API models: GPT-Realtime-2 with GPT-5-class reasoning and parallel tool use, GPT-Realtime-Translate covering 70 input and 13 output languages, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper for streaming transcription.
[NEWS] Apple's camera-equipped AirPods reach late testing for AI features: Apple's AirPods with built-in cameras have entered design validation testing, one stage before mass production.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic's Natural Language Autoencoders translate Claude's thoughts into text: Anthropic introduced Natural Language Autoencoders (NLAs), a method that converts a model's internal activations directly into readable natural language.
[NEWS] Nvidia invests up to $2.1B in data center developer IREN: Nvidia is investing as much as $2.1 billion in IREN as part of a broader partnership to accelerate AI infrastructure construction.
[NEWS] DeepL cuts 250 jobs, ~25% of workforce, to rebuild as 'AI-native': German translation startup DeepL is laying off roughly 250 employees, about 25% of staff, as CEO Jarek Kutylowski restructures the company around smaller AI-augmented teams.
[NEWS] SoftBank slashes OpenAI margin loan target 40% to $6B: SoftBank Group has cut its planned $10 billion margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake to $6 billion after creditors balked.
[NEWS] US probes Nvidia chip smuggling ring to Alibaba via Thailand: US officials suspect a key company behind Thailand's national AI initiative helped smuggle billions of dollars of Super Micro servers packed with advanced Nvidia chips into China, with Alibaba among the end customers.
[RESEARCH] Sakana's 7B RL Conductor orchestrates GPT-5, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro: Sakana AI introduced RL Conductor, a small language model trained via reinforcement learning to dynamically route work across a pool of frontier LLMs.

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