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Musk vs OpenAI trial drama & OpenAI pushes AI networking standard - Tech News (May 8, 2026)
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- May 8, 2026
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Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Lindy is your ultimate AI assistant that proactively manages your inbox - https://try.lindy.ai/tad - SurveyMonkey, Using AI to surface insights faster and reduce manual analysis time - https://get.surveymonkey.com/tad - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: Musk vs OpenAI trial drama - In a high-stakes Oakland federal trial, Elon Musk accuses OpenAI leaders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of abandoning a nonprofit mission, while OpenAI says the dispute is about control and competition with xAI. Testimony and internal messages raise governance, commercialization, and AGI race concerns. OpenAI pushes AI networking standard - OpenAI, alongside AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, published a new open networking protocol via the Open Compute Project. The goal is faster, more reliable GPU-to-GPU communication for large-scale AI training infrastructure. Real-time voice AI goes mainstream - OpenAI introduced new real-time audio models for developers, aiming to make live voice agents, translation, and transcription more practical in production. The release signals accelerating competition to own enterprise voice workflows. Codex moves into Chrome workflows - OpenAI says Codex can now operate inside Google Chrome on Windows and macOS, making browser-based automation and multi-step web tasks easier to integrate. This nudges AI coding tools closer to everyday, web-centric work. GitHub reliability and lost code - GitHub faced a string of outages plus a data integrity issue that caused some merge results to be wrong, forcing manual recovery for affected pull requests. The…