Today in AI — 2026-05-11

Top AI stories of the day, ranked by source authority + keyword signal. Auto-curated from 27 trusted sources.

1. Thinking Machines: AI that can respond during the interaction

Source: Hacker News - AI · Signal: 30 ·

Article URL: https://medium.com/seeds-for-the-future/a-new-way-to-interact-with-ai-interaction-models-2941f1732558 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102381 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

2. Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’

Source: Wired AI · Signal: 30 ·

The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.

3. Mistral AI's NPM package was compromised

Source: Hacker News - AI · Signal: 30 ·

Article URL: https://github.com/mistralai/client-ts/issues/217 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102303 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

4. GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

Source: Hacker News - AI · Signal: 30 ·

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/11/gm-just-laid-off-hundreds-of-it-workers-to-hire-those-with-stronger-ai-skills/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102198 Points: 23 # Comments: 20

5. Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS

Source: Hugging Face Blog · Signal: 30 ·

6. OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos

Source: The Verge AI · Signal: 30 ·

OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create a threat model based on an organization's code and focus on possible attack paths, validate likel...

7. We are not going to agree on AI

Source: Hacker News - AI · Signal: 30 ·

Article URL: https://idiallo.com/blog/we-are-not-going-to-agree-on-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101920 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

8. Show HN: I built an MCP server for narrative-driven trading intelligence

Source: Hacker News - AI · Signal: 30 ·

i dont trust LLMs to make trades for me, however i do trust them to pressure test theses, process large amounts of market and exchange data, RSS feeds. theres are pages and pages of text, opinions, about any given ticker. does not having a risk committee or a fund-manager overlord allow me to mak...

9. Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks

Source: Ars Technica AI · Signal: 30 ·

Production-version patches are coming online and should be installed pronto.

10. Atlas Navigation

Source: Product Hunt - AI · Signal: 30 ·

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11. Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to

Source: The Verge AI · Signal: 30 ·

Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called "interaction models." The idea behind interaction models, according to Thinking Machines, is that they will let people "collaborate with AI the way we naturally colla...

12. Red flags when building AI

Source: Hacker News - AI · Signal: 30 ·

Article URL: https://www.dianapfeil.com/ai/2026/02/11/red-flags-when-building-ai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101455 Points: 1 # Comments: 0