The Neural Daily 2026-05-08: Lies, Billions, and Bone Scans

Inside the "culture of deceit" at the Musk vs. Altman trial and the $725 billion AI arms race hitting a massive energy wall, the physical nervous system of a new era is being built one GPU at a time. We break down "The Great Flattening" of the tech workforce, Meta’s controversial biometric bone-scanning, and the rise of self-improving AI kernels rewriting their own DNA. From Spotify’s war on "AI slop" to the xAI-SpaceX merger, we’re tracking the high-velocity pivot toward a vertically integrated planetary intelligence.