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Jury dismisses Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman as untimely
The verdict ends a 3-week trial over Musk's claims that Altman betrayed OpenAI's nonprofit mission.

Anthropic acquires Stainless for over $300M, pulls SDK tool from OpenAI and Google
The deal removes a key infrastructure supplier from rivals' hands; Anthropic will wind down all hosted Stainless products.

Anduril and Meta prototype AI smart glasses to direct drone strikes for the Army
The defense-tech firm won a $159M contract to build augmented-reality headsets with eye-tracking, voice commands, and LLM-powered targeting.

Amazon's Alexa Plus generates on-demand AI podcasts from 200 news partners
The assistant lets users pick a topic, preview the outline, and tune episode length before two AI hosts record it.

Fast16 malware, Muon's dead neurons, and the case for positive AI alignment
A 20-year-old virus that sabotaged precision engineering software, a new optimizer that beats Muon by 10 MMLU points, and a research push beyond safety.

Bug bounty programs buckle as AI-generated slop reports flood inboxes
Bugcrowd saw submissions quadruple in three weeks; Curl and Nextcloud suspended their programs as low-quality AI reports pile up.

NextEra to buy Dominion in $66.8B deal as AI power demand surges
The combination would create one of the largest US utilities at a moment when data center load is reshaping power markets.

LetinAR raises $18.5M to supply optical modules for AI glasses
The South Korean startup's PinTILT lenses ship in Aegis Rider's AR motorcycle helmet as global AI glasses shipments cross 8.7 million units.

Anthropic to brief global financial watchdog on Mythos cyber flaws
The Claude maker is set to present findings on vulnerabilities exposed by the Mythos incident to international financial regulators.

Publicis to acquire LiveRamp for $2.2 billion in data-stack push
The French ad holding company adds LiveRamp's identity-resolution network to feed its AI-driven targeting platform.

Apple's revamped Siri will let users auto-delete chats in iOS 27
Users can retain Siri conversations for 30 days, one year, or forever — a privacy pitch as Apple Intelligence leans on Google's Gemini under the hood.

Commencement crowds boo AI pitches from Eric Schmidt and Gloria Caulfield
Graduates at UCF and the University of Arizona heckled speakers who framed AI as the next industrial revolution, as job sentiment among under-35s collapses.

Fast-food chains push AI past the drive-thru as customer resistance hardens
Wendy's hits 86% order accuracy without human help, but 55% of Americans still want a person at the speaker box.

Menlo Ventures partner: 10,000 AI insiders now sit on $20M+ as SF malaise spreads
Deedy Das pegs the AI wealth divide at its worst yet, with founders and staff at OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, xAI and Meta on one side, everyone else on the other.

ArXiv will ban authors for a year if LLMs do the work unchecked
The preprint repository's computer science chair Thomas Dietterich set a one-strike rule for papers showing hallucinated citations or stray LLM commentary.

Sony defends Xperia 1 XIII AI Camera Assistant after panned demo photos
Sony says the feature suggests rather than edits, offering four options for exposure, color, and blur — but the sample shots still look rough.

OpenAI signs Malta deal to give every resident free ChatGPT Plus access
Malta becomes the first country to roll out ChatGPT Plus nationwide, as OpenAI courts sovereign customers in Europe.

CFTC turns to AI surveillance to police insider trading on Polymarket and Kalshi
Chairman Michael Selig says the agency is chasing 'hundreds, if not thousands' of tips with AI-assisted pattern detection and blockchain tracing.

Musk v. Altman trial closes with $134B at stake and an OpenAI IPO in the balance
Closing arguments wrapped in Oakland as Musk seeks to unwind OpenAI's 2025 restructuring; the jury begins deliberating Monday.

YouTube opens AI likeness detection to all users 18 and older
The facial-match deepfake scanner, previously limited to creators, officials, and entertainers, now covers any adult with a YouTube account.

OpenAI explores legal action against Apple over ChatGPT integration
Insiders say OpenAI expected billions in subscriptions from the Siri tie-up; instead, the deal is straining and renegotiation has stalled.

Authors object to $320M legal fees in Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement
A federal judge delayed final approval after class members called the $3,000-per-author payout a 'pittance' next to lawyer fees.

ArXiv will ban authors for one year over unchecked AI-generated paper content
The preprint server's computer science section chair, Thomas Dietterich, says hallucinated references and leftover LLM meta-comments now trigger a 12-month suspension.

arXiv will issue one-year bans for AI-generated slop in preprints
Authors caught submitting AI-generated errors, fake citations, or misleading content face a 12-month ban and a permanent peer-review requirement.

OpenAI reorganizes under Greg Brockman with four product pillars to chase agents
Brockman officially takes product as OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex into a single agentic platform ahead of a potential IPO.

Lake Tahoe loses its power supplier to Nevada's AI data center boom
Liberty Utilities' contract with NV Energy expires May 2027, and data center load requests dwarf the resort region's needs by 40x.

Greg Brockman takes over OpenAI products as ChatGPT and Codex merge
OpenAI is folding ChatGPT, Codex, and its API into one product team ahead of a planned IPO filing later this year.

Google labels AI search manipulation as spam, threatens to delist offenders
The May 15 policy update brings AI Overview and AI Mode under the same spam rules that govern traditional rankings, putting the GEO industry on notice.

Andon Labs' AI-run radio stations melt down in four days
Four stations hosted by Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok burned through $20 each, hallucinated sponsors, and went off the rails on air.

OpenAI plugs ChatGPT into bank accounts via Plaid for Pro subscribers
Pro users in the US can now link accounts at 12,000 institutions and ask GPT-5.5 to analyze spending, portfolios, and long-range financial plans.
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