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- Briefing date: 2026-05-15
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Stories covered on 2026-05-15
- Musk v. Altman week 3: Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side.
MIT Technology Review · 2026-05-15
In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility.
- OpenAI Said ChatGPT Was Private. The May 13 Complaint Says Otherwise.
Towards AI · 2026-05-15
A recent complaint alleges OpenAI misrepresented ChatGPT's data usage policies, implying conversations were private when in fact they could be used for model training without
- When Telling an LLM What to Look At Means It Looks at Nothing Else: The System Prompt Is the Attack…
Towards AI · 2026-05-15
A recent analysis reveals that the system prompt, intended to guide Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Anthropic's Claude
- Beyond the Jupyter Notebook: How to Build a Dockerized RAG Pipeline in Python using Haystack.
Towards AI · 2026-05-15
Haystack, a framework for building LLM applications, has introduced a Dockerized approach for deploying Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
- ChatGPT now wants access to your bank account so it can tell you to stop ordering takeout
The Decoder · 2026-05-15
OpenAI is turning ChatGPT into a personal financial assistant. Pro users in the US can now connect their bank accounts through Plaid to get personalized analysis based on real
- YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to all adult users
The Verge · 2026-05-15
YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18 - meaning just about anyone can have the platform hunt for potential deepfakes of themselves.
- Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval
Ars Technica · 2026-05-15
Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.
- Distributed Inference with PyTorch from First Principles
Towards AI · 2026-05-15
PyTorch has introduced a new, foundational approach to distributed inference, enabling models to be spread across multiple devices more efficiently.
- How to Maximize Claude Cowork
Towards AI · 2026-05-15
Learn how to get the most out of Claude CoworkContinue reading on Towards AI »
- How to Build an MCP Style Routed AI Agent System with Dynamic Tool Exposure Planning, Execution, and Context Injection
MarkTechPost · 2026-05-15
In this tutorial, we build a fully functional MCP-style routed agent system from scratch, combining tool discovery, intelligent routing, structured planning
- Figma Jumps as Results Ease AI Disruption Concerns
Bloomberg · 2026-05-15
Figma shares rose after the creative software platform reported first-quarter results that beat expectations and raised its full-year forecast
- Figure CEO Says No Teleoperation in Their Humanoid Robot Testing
Bloomberg · 2026-05-15
Figure, a robotics company developing humanoid robots that operate via AI, is running a livestream of one of its robots sorting packages in real time to show off its capabilities.
- US Chip Sector Needs More Talent, Says SEMI
Bloomberg · 2026-05-15
President Trump says he discussed guardrails on AI and Nvidia's H200 chips with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a two-day summit in Beijing.
- ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop
The Verge · 2026-05-15
ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop.
- Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview: The First MoE Diffusion Model Converted From an Autoregressive LLM With Up to 7.7x Speedup
MarkTechPost · 2026-05-15
Zyphra's latest release shows that an autoregressive MoE model can be converted into a discrete diffusion model with no systematic loss in evaluation performance.
- US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI
Hacker News · 2026-05-16
Customer service representatives, administrative assistants, and some sales roles experienced significant employment reductions for the second consecutive year in 2025
- The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning
TechCrunch · 2026-05-15
The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of AI?
- Google busts the myth that AI search needs its own SEO playbook
The Decoder · 2026-05-15
Google says the SEO industry's favorite new buzzwords, "generative engine optimization" and "answer engine optimization," are just regular SEO by another name.
- Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions
Ars Technica · 2026-05-15
One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media.
- OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to win AI agent battle
The Verge · 2026-05-15
OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product.
- OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say
Ars Technica · 2026-05-15
Judge orders Apple to give Musk internal messages discussing secretive ChatGPT deal.
- Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up
TechCrunch · 2026-05-15
Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite vacation spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.
- Why Specification-Driven Development (SDD) is Not a Silver Bullet for AI-Assisted SDLC
Towards AI · 2026-05-15
Using a popular SDD GitHub Spec Kit and a real-world feature experimentContinue reading on Towards AI »
- AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone
The Verge · 2026-05-15
Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention.
- AI Safety in Practice: Red-Teaming, Evaluation, and Guardrails for Enterprise GenAI Deployments
Towards AI · 2026-05-15
The article details practical approaches to AI safety for enterprise generative AI, focusing on red-teaming, robust evaluation frameworks
- Microsoft pulls Claude Code licenses and pushes developers back toward its own AI tool
The Decoder · 2026-05-15
Thousands of Microsoft developers used Anthropic's Claude Code for programming. Now the company is revoking licenses and betting on GitHub Copilot CLI.
- Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up
WIRED · 2026-05-15
OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience.
- Anthropic's $900 billion valuation would make it more valuable than OpenAI for the first time
The Decoder · 2026-05-15
Anthropic is raising another $30 billion just three months after a round of the same size. The AI lab's valuation jumps to $900 billion, surpassing rival OpenAI for the first time.
- Richard Dawkins and the question of AI consciousness | Letters
The Guardian AI · 2026-05-15
Salley Vickers and Carrie Eckersley respond to a letter on Richard Dawkins and his chats with AI bots I was delighted to read Dr Simon Nieder’s cogent rebuttal of Richard Dawkins’s
- Google updates its spam rules to include attempts to ‘manipulate’ AI
The Verge · 2026-05-15
Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to "manipulate" its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search