Morning Brief — 2026-05-07

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🇺🇸 US News

Oil and gasoline remain front-and-center as NPR reports major U.S. producers are not signaling more drilling despite Iran-war price pressure at the pump.
Psychiatrists pushed back on RFK Jr.’s SSRI comments, calling the framing an oversimplification while welcoming better access to evidence-based mental-health care.
A man charged in a Colorado firebomb attack on demonstrators is set to plead guilty to murder and other charges, ABC News reports.
Investigators searched a home tied to the convicted killer of California college student Kristin Smart, reopening attention on the decades-old case.

Iran is considering a U.S. proposal as Trump says the war will be “over quickly,” with Pakistan trying to turn a ceasefire into a permanent deal.
Israel struck Beirut for the first time since the Hezbollah ceasefire, saying it targeted a senior Hezbollah figure.
China issued suspended death sentences to two former defense ministers accused of bribery, extending Xi’s military corruption purge.
Russia said Ukraine launched a major drone attack after Moscow shunned a ceasefire offer, adding new pressure to the war.

The S&P 500 closed at 7,365.10 on May 6, extending the market’s risk-on tone into Thursday morning.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished at 49,910.60, just below the 50,000 line after touching 50,011 intraday.
The Nasdaq Composite ended at 25,838.94, with megacap tech and AI-linked names carrying the strongest momentum.
Oil fell below $100 while traders watched the Strait of Hormuz risk premium, CNBC says.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said 80-fold first-quarter growth explains the company’s compute crunch, CNBC reports.
OpenAI partnered with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia on Multipath Reliable Connection, a GPU-cluster networking protocol.
Google shut down Project Mariner, folding the web-agent experiment’s technology into Gemini Agent and AI Mode, The Verge reports.
Snap said its $400 million Perplexity integration deal “amicably ended,” removing a high-profile AI search partnership.
AI supply-chain leaders told TechCrunch the sector’s weak points now run from chips to power to software architecture, not just model quality.

Nvidia closed at $207.83 after trading as high as $208.27, keeping AI-chip leadership intact.
Microsoft closed at $413.96 while debate continues over hyperscaler AI capex and cloud returns.
AMD closed at $421.39, with Arm’s latest quarter reinforcing the broader CPU-and-accelerator resurgence.
QQQ finished at $695.77, reflecting strong Nasdaq-heavy AI exposure.
SpaceX’s proposed Texas Terafab could cost up to $119 billion, underscoring the scale of AI-chip infrastructure ambitions.

No major OpenClaw release surfaced overnight; the main repository remains the best place to watch for code and release activity.
OpenClaw’s docs now frame it as a self-hosted, multi-channel gateway for agent access across chat apps, with setup paths in the guide.
ClawHub continues to list a large skill ecosystem — 52.7k tools and 12M downloads on its public skills directory.