Freitag, 8. Mai 2026

The Daily

8. Mai. Freude braucht Erinnerung.

Wien heute: ☀️ klar, aktuell 11°C (gefühlt 10°C). Wind 8 km/h, Luftfeuchtigkeit 76%. Sonnenaufgang 05:25, Sonnenuntergang 20:18.

NBA

Two Game 2s, no score tickers

Cleveland-Detroit and Lakers-Oklahoma City filled the Thursday night playoff window, so the safe morning move is simple: avoid score tickers, highlight feeds and postgame tabs. The OKC-LA late game is the natural replay-first slot on matchup weight alone, not on any result. Wikihoops listed both games but had no usable rating signal at capture time, so there is no postgame quality claim in this draft.
Source: NBA.com / Wikihoops

Lakers need a Reaves answer

NBA.com framed Thunder-Lakers Game 2 around Los Angeles needing more clean creation without Luka Doncic. The pregame hinge is Austin Reaves, non-LeBron shot creation and whether OKC's pressure turns every loose possession into a tax.
Source: NBA.com

Anunoby clouds the Philly opener

OG Anunoby is listed questionable for Friday's Game 3 in Philadelphia because of a strained right hamstring. The swing point is rotation stress: New York's wing defense changes quickly if his minutes are limited.
Source: Sportsnet / AP

Minnesota gets the adjustment game

Spurs-Wolves moves to Minneapolis for Friday's Game 3, with NBA.com putting the next hinge on spacing, ball security and Anthony Edwards' workload. That is a clean watch-window setup: less scoreboard, more half-court chess.
Source: NBA.com / Wikihoops

Wien – Kultur & Essen

Stadtpark startet ins Genuss-Wochenende

Das Genuss-Festival läuft von 8. bis 10. Mai im Wiener Stadtpark und bündelt mehr als 100 Stände und Erlebnisstationen aus den AMA Genuss Regionen. Für heute ist das der klare Kulinarik-Lead: leicht erreichbar, kostenlos und gut für einen schnellen Rundgang. Freitag ist von 11:00 bis 21:00 geöffnet, Samstag ebenfalls lang und Sonntag bis 17:00.
Source: Genuss Festival / Wien.info

Heldenplatz bekommt Symphoniker-Wucht

Das Fest der Freude beginnt heute um 19:30 Uhr am Heldenplatz und setzt den Schwerpunkt auf Täter und Täterinnen im Nationalsozialismus. Wiener Symphoniker, Zeitzeugenschaft und Reden machen daraus einen ernsten Kulturtermin, nicht nur eine Gedenknotiz.
Source: Fest der Freude

Neubaugasse wird zum Straßenfest

Der Flaniermarkt läuft heute und morgen jeweils von 8:30 bis 19:00 in der Neubaugasse, 1070 Wien. Neben Flohmarkt und Design gibt es Kulinarik, Musikinseln, Tanz-Workshops, Walking Acts und eine Kinderinsel.
Source: WIENerLEBEN / WKO

Rathausplatz wird zur ESC-Bühne

Das Eurovision Village öffnet von 10. bis 17. Mai am Rathausplatz mit Konzerten, Karaoke, Quizzes, Public Viewing und Gastroständen. Der praktische Haken: freie Teilnahme, Opening am Sonntag und große Public-Viewing-Abende am 12., 14. und 16. Mai.
Source: Stadt Wien Eurovision

AI & Tech

Murati deposition reopens OpenAI governance

The Verge reports that Mira Murati's testimony and trial exhibits in Musk v. Altman put the 2023 OpenAI board crisis back into evidence. The useful angle is not gossip; it is governance. The record appears to complicate clean narratives about who knew what, how the board framed candor and why the industry's defining corporate drama still matters.
Source: The Verge

Camera AirPods point to ambient AI

The Verge, citing Bloomberg, says Apple's camera-equipped AirPods are nearing early mass-production testing. The important detail is that the cameras are low-resolution visual sensors for Siri and contextual AI, not a photo product.
Source: The Verge

Terafab makes compute territorial

The Verge reports that SpaceX plans at least $55bn for a Texas chip plant tied to AI compute. The bigger signal is vertical integration: xAI and SpaceX want compute supply to become infrastructure they own.
Source: The Verge

AI search becomes a task interface

The NYT tests where Google's AI search mode beats classic search, especially for task-heavy queries like groceries or scam checks. The trust boundary remains visible: useful for decisions, still unreliable across every fact domain.
Source: NYT

Biotech & Pharma

AI reaches cancer-drug production

The NYT profiles a Bristol Myers Squibb plant making cancer drugs that the World Economic Forum recognized for manufacturing innovation. The useful angle is operational, not demo-driven: automation and AI are moving into regulated drug production. In that setting, reliability, documentation and process control matter more than a flashy model claim.
Source: NYT

Nuvalent lines up two lung filings

Nuvalent says zidesamtinib is under FDA review for TKI-pretreated ROS1-positive NSCLC and that neladalkib has been submitted for TKI-pretreated ALK-positive NSCLC. Zidesamtinib carries a September 18 PDUFA date.
Source: FT

Merck keeps oncology calendar crowded

Merck's Q1 update highlights Keytruda growth and a run of oncology regulatory milestones across ovarian cancer, small-cell lung cancer and renal-cell carcinoma. The section signal is franchise layering before the ASCO investor event on June 1.
Source: FT

Personalis gains MRD reimbursement fuel

Personalis reports Medicare coverage for lung-cancer recurrence surveillance in stage I-III NSCLC, adding a second major coverage decision after breast cancer. MRD testing is moving from technical promise toward reimbursement breadth.
Source: FT