May 07, 2026

TechCrunch Top 3

Could Lovable's automatic 10% pay raise be the cure for toxic cultures?: Stockholm-based vibe-coding platform Lovable is offering employees an automatic 10% raise as a way to sidestep classic corporate politics. Read More

Bumble is getting rid of the swipe, CEO says: Based on Whitney Wolfe Herd's past comments about Bumble's new direction, the company is expected to lean into AI -- Bumble is even working on an AI dating assistant called Bee, and the CEO has made many comments over the years about how AI will be "a supercharger to love and relationships." Read More

Elon Musk's lawsuit is putting OpenAI's safety record under the microscope: Elon Musk's legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab's founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence. Read More

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Afternoon Must-Reads

Hackers deface school login pages after claiming another Instructure hack: The cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Instructure again, defacing the login pages of several Instructure customer schools with an extortion message. Read More

Google unveils Whoop-like screenless Fitbit Air: The device comes with health and fitness tracking like 24/7 heart rate, heart rhythm monitoring with A-fib alerts, SpO2, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stages and duration, and more. Read More

Perplexity's Personal Computer is now available to everyone on Mac: Perplexity's Personal Computer brings AI agents to your Mac, and is now open to everyone. Read More

How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity: Security researchers at Mozilla say Anthropic's Mythos has unearthed a wealth of high-severity bugs in Firefox. Read More

Tesla Model Y is first car to meet new US driver assistance safety benchmark: The new benchmark rating applies to 2026 Tesla Model Y vehicles assembled on or after November 12, 2025. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19: The Gemini-powered health coach will act as a combination fitness coach, sleep expert, and health and wellness advisor. Read More

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