Good morning. It's Saturday, May 9th, 2026. You're listening to the Morning Brief.

OpenAI fires GPT-5.5 at the Pentagon. OpenAI announced this week that GPT-5.5-Cyber, a more permissive variant of the Spud model released last month, is rolling out to vetted cyber defenders through their new Trusted Access for Cyber initiative. This is the direct response to Anthropic's Mythos Preview from April — the most permissive version in OpenAI's cybersecurity lineup, with stronger verification requirements and a limited partner program. The target: critical infrastructure defenders. The competition: whoever has the best cyber model in an arms race that's moving faster than the regulation can keep up.

Meta's AI hunger is tracking your mouse movements. The New York Times reports that Meta told 78,000 employees their computer activity — every keystroke, mouse movement, click location, and periodic screenshots — would be tracked to train AI models on 'how people actually complete everyday tasks.' The stated goal: capturing training data so Meta's AI agents can learn human workflows. The unspoken concern: many of the agents being trained may be replacements for the people being monitored. EU privacy regulators are already watching.

SpaceX fires up all 33 Raptors on Booster 19. The V3 Super Heavy completed a full-duration, full-thrust static fire on May 7th — all 33 Raptor engines lit simultaneously, generating 9,240 tons of thrust. That makes it the most powerful rocket ever ignited. Ship 39 is now rolling to the pad for Flight 12. This was the critical holdup after the deluge test explosion last month, and a clean static fire puts Flight 12 firmly back on track for late May.

The Pentagon just declassified 162 UAP records. Friday marks the first release in a rolling program ordered by the President — videos, photos, and original documents from across the entire US government, published on a single website with no clearance required. Includes infrared footage of a 'football-shaped body' observed by military sensors in 2024 and 2025. The Pentagon says more tranches are coming every few weeks. Whether you think this is the biggest transparency moment in UAP history or carefully curated non-answers — it's happening publicly for the first time on record.

NASA JPL is testing a Mars engine. JPL engineers successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster that could power crewed missions to Mars and beyond. Electric plasma propulsion, lithium vapor fuel, and a design that could dramatically cut transit times for deep space missions. It's early — but when NASA is building hardware for Mars, you start paying attention.

That's all for today. Have a good one.