Biography Flash Noam Chomsky at 97 Still Igniting AI Feuds and May Day Fire

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In the whirlwind of the past few days leading into May Day 2026, Noam Chomsky, the linguistic titan and unflinching critic of empire, stirred fresh buzz with a pointed video excerpt circulating on YouTube shorts, where he dissects May Day as a stark counterpoint to Law Day, slamming American justice as a hollow sham propping up corporate power. Uploaded just yesterday by an independent channel, it racks up views from admirers hailing his enduring fire at 97. No major public appearances or business moves popped up, but his intellectual shadow loomed large online, with Andie Stewart's Substack post yesterday invoking Chomsky's 2023 New York Times essay co-authored with Ian Roberts and Jeffrey Watumull to torch OpenAI's Sam Altman as a bubble-blowing huckster peddling gimmicky chatbots far from true AI smarts. Stewart whispers that Chomsky's takedown exposes a self-serving scam inflating NVIDIA stocks and luring suckers into the AGI mirage. Linguist List buzzed too on May 1 about Paul Postal's latest book ripping into generative grammar's foundational flaws, spotlighting Chomsky's cutting-edge math on the Merge operation with collaborator Marcolli as a desperate patch on crumbling theory. Behaviorist Book Club echoed the drama, urging pros to ditch Chomsky's rigid rules for flexible, real-world verbal training. No verified social media posts from the man himself or red-carpet spots, but these ripples confirm his ideas still ignite academic catfights and tech heresy hunts. Unconfirmed chatter hints at health watchdogs circling after his 2023 stroke, yet nothing sticks from reliable wires like Reuters or AP in the last 72 hours. The past 24? Dead quiet on headlines, per Google News scans.

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