The day in AI

Friday 8 May 2026

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Launches and products

8 May 2026BaiduERNIE 5.1 Compressed ERNIE 5.0 sub-network with a third of the total and half the active parameters, at a claimed 6% of comparable pretraining cost.8 May 2026HiggsfieldHiggsfield MCP (generate media from Claude and ChatGPT) Higgsfield MCP lets users generate image, video and audio with 30+ models from inside Claude; a ChatGPT plugin and agent 'Supercomputer' followed.

Research

8 May 2026AnthropicTeaching Claude why Anthropic reports every Claude model since Haiku 4.5 scores perfectly on its blackmail-style agentic misalignment test, down from up to 96% for Opus 4.