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AI lab announcements, 4–10 May 2026 — forck

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Monday

4 May

OpenAI Story of the weekInfrastructure

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

OpenAI rebuilt its WebRTC stack to enable low-latency, globally scalable real-time voice AI with seamless conversational turn-taking.

4 May

Also Monday

OpenAIPartnership
OpenAI and PwC collaborate to reimagine the office of the CFO
Harvey
Introducing Harvey’s Transformation Office
VercelDeveloper tool
Introducing deepsec: The security harness for finding vulnerabilities in your codebase
Vercel
How General Intelligence used agents to build an agent platform on Vercel
SupabaseCapability change
Branching Without Git Is Now The Default
Kyutai
Pocket TTS now supports six languages

Runway
Building Real-Time Video Agent from a Single Image with Runway Characters
Runway
60x Faster Cold Starts: Treating Peer GPUs as Weight Servers
AmpModel update
GPT-5.5 In Deep
CursorCapability change

On the shows on Monday3 episodes

1:14:19Dara Khosrowshahi on replacing Uber drivers — and himself — with AI

Decoder · 4 May · 74 min

24:05Sarah Rogers: Free Speech, AI Diplomacy, and What America Owes Its Allies

a16z Podcast · 4 May · 24 min

27:15Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov: 20 Million Rides and the Road to Full Autonomy

Training Data · 4 May · 27 min

Tuesday

5 May

HarveyCapability change
Legal Agents for Every Matter, Tailored to You
ElevenLabsCompany news
ElevenLabs crosses $500M ARR as it welcomes new investors including BlackRock, NVIDIA, Jamie Foxx and Eva Longoria
OpenAIInfrastructure
Unlocking large scale AI training networks with MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection)
OpenAIModel update
GPT-5.5 Instant: smarter, clearer, and more personalized
Vercel
How KIKO Milano scales for Black Friday

Supabase
Realtime or Pipelines? How to choose the right tool
OpenClaw
OpenClaw Had a Rough Week
LumaAPI release
Introducing the Uni-1.1 API: Intelligence You Can Direct. Aesthetic You Can Ship.
OpenAICapability change

On the shows on Tuesday2 episodes

24:35Anthropic's Boris Cherny: Coding's Printing Press Moment

Training Data · 5 May · 25 min

Wednesday

6 May

Hugging Face
vLLM V0 to V1: Correctness Before Corrections in RL
HarveyCapability change
How we Built Image Understanding for Legal Documents
Replit
Secure more apps with External Access Tokens and Private Publishing
Google DeepMind
AlphaEvolve: How our Gemini-powered coding agent is scaling impact across fields
OpenAI
How ChatGPT learns about the world while protecting privacy
SupabaseDeveloper tool
Introducing @supabase/server
PerplexityCapability change
Introducing Finance Search in the Agent API
AmpDeveloper tool
Amp, Rebuilt
xAIAPI release
Grok Imagine Quality Mode API

xAICapability change
Connectors in web, iOS, and Android
xAIPartnership
New Compute Partnership with Anthropic
CursorCapability change
Context Usage Breakdown

Thursday

7 May

Harvey
Harvey in Practice: How In-House Teams Monitor, Interpret, and Act on Regulatory Change
ReplitCapability change
Security Center 2.0: Act on vulnerabilities in bulk across all your apps
Harvey
The Supreme Case for Harvey
Google DeepMind
Find out how AlphaEvolve has gone from research to solving real-life problems.
OpenAIModel update
Scaling Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber
LovableCapability change
Wiz findings now in Lovable
ElevenLabsAvailability change
ElevenLabs expands presence in Australia and New Zealand

OpenAI
Parloa builds service agents customers want to talk to
OpenAINew model
Advancing voice intelligence with new models in the API
CursorCapability change
PR Review, Build Plan in Parallel, and Split PRs
OpenAI
Simplex rethinks software development with Codex

On the shows on Thursday2 episodes

42:05Rewind: How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education

Decoder · 7 May · 42 min

Friday

8 May

Sakana AIResearch paper
Sparser, Faster, Lighter Transformer Language Models
OpenAI
Running Codex safely at OpenAI
RunwaySafety or policy
Our Approach to Child Safety

SupabaseCapability change
Supabase Is Now an Official ChatGPT App
Together AIDeveloper tool
Deploy and inference any model from HuggingFace

On the shows on Friday3 episodes

41:30Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers

Lightcone · 8 May · 42 min

41:29Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers

Y Combinator Startup Podcast · 8 May · 41 min

Saturday

9 May

BaiduNew model
ERNIE 5.1 Officially Released! Topping Multiple Leaderboards — A Model That Writes Better and Understands You More

Sunday

10 May

Vercel
How Superset built the IDE for AI agents on Vercel

Genspark
Seeing AGI (8): The Rebirth of the Human Role

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Model controls, spend management, and usage analytics

Foundational research powering efficient inference at scale

New ways to buy ChatGPT ads

OpenAISafety or policy

Advancing youth safety and wellbeing in EMEA

1:31:51

🔬Doing Vibe Physics — Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI

Latent Space · 5 May · 92 min

Hugging FaceCapability change

Adding Benchmaxxer Repellant to the Open ASR Leaderboard

Uber uses OpenAI to help people earn smarter and book faster

OpenAIResearch paper

How frontier firms are pulling ahead

Introducing ChatGPT Futures: Class of 2026

Singular Bank helps bankers move fast with ChatGPT and Codex

OpenAICapability change

Introducing Trusted Contact in ChatGPT

OpenAICapability change

Testing ads in ChatGPT

'AI Coachella' Stanford prof on data center backlash

Sources · 7 May · 64 min

26:48

ElevenLabs' Mati Staniszewski: How Voice Becomes the Interface for Everything

Training Data · 8 May · 27 min