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Microsoft rebuilds Edge around Copilot, killing Copilot Mode for tab-aware AI
The May 13 update lets Copilot read across open tabs, generate podcasts and quizzes, and remember past chats — and retires Copilot Mode entirely.
Notion turns its workspace into an agent hub with new Developer Platform
Notion adds Workers, database sync, and an External Agent API as customers cross one million Custom Agents built since February.
Princeton ends 133-year no-proctor tradition as 30% of seniors admit AI cheating
Faculty voted to require instructor proctoring from July 1 after a 2025 survey found 29.9% of seniors cheated and 44.6% witnessed it without reporting.
Anthropic's Cat Wu says proactive Claude is the next six-month bet
Anthropic's head of product for Claude Code argues the next leap is agents that set up your automations before you ask.
xAI runs 46 gas turbines at Mississippi data center under 'mobile' loophole
Mississippi treats the trailer-mounted turbines as mobile, exempting them from air-pollution rules for one year; the NAACP is seeking an injunction.
Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude are surfacing real phone numbers, privacy firm says
DeleteMe says AI-related privacy requests jumped 400% in seven months, with ChatGPT cited in 55% of complaints and Gemini in 20%.
Altman testifies he is 'truthful' as Musk's lawyer cites Sutskever dossier
OpenAI's CEO spent four hours on the stand defending his honesty after three days of Musk testimony in the nonprofit-conversion trial.
Zuckerberg unveils Incognito Chat, an end-to-end encrypted Meta AI mode
Meta says no one — including Meta — can read the conversations, a direct contrast with retention windows at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Origin Lab raises $8M to broker video game data to world-model labs
Lightspeed leads a seed round for a marketplace pairing game studios with AI labs training models on physical-world dynamics.
Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, targets 36 million SMBs
A new toggle inside Claude Cowork adds bookkeeping, ad generation, and integrations with QuickBooks, Canva, DocuSign, HubSpot, and PayPal.
WhatsApp launches Incognito Chat for Meta AI, shielding prompts from Meta itself
The new mode runs inference inside a Trusted Execution Environment and leans on WhatsApp's Private Processing infrastructure, with 3 billion users in scope.
Rivian ships an in-house AI voice assistant in software update 2026.15
The Rivian Assistant works on Gen1 and Gen2 vehicles, runs in Rivian's private cloud, and is gated to Connect+ subscribers.
Amazon puts Alexa Plus inside Amazon.com as new shopping assistant
Alexa for Shopping replaces Rufus in the search bar, handles price alerts, auto-reorders, and agentic checkout across the web.
Adaption launches AutoScientist, an AI tool that trains models on themselves
Co-founder Sara Hooker says the system doubled win-rates across models; Adaption is offering 30 days free to prove it.
Anthropic overtakes OpenAI on Ramp business spend, 34.4% to 32.3%
Ramp's May 2026 AI Index shows Anthropic leading paid enterprise adoption for the first time across a sample of 50,000+ companies.
Poppy launches proactive AI assistant with $1.25M pre-seed from Kindred Ventures
Ex-Humane engineer Sai Kambampati pitches an ambient AI layer that reads your calendar, email, and messages to suggest what to do next.
Hermes Agent hits 140,000 GitHub stars, runs on NVIDIA RTX and DGX Spark
Nous Research's local-first agent framework is now the most-used agent on OpenRouter, paired with Alibaba's new Qwen 3.6 models.
NVIDIA partners with David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence on RL infrastructure
The London lab, founded by AlphaGo architect David Silver, will codesign reinforcement learning pipelines on Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin.
Data centers push into rural America with jobs math that doesn't add up
Maine's governor vetoed an 18-month data center moratorium citing 150 jobs at a Jay facility; a Texas study found net job creation closer to zero.
Box CEO Aaron Levie argues agents will multiply software users, not replace them
Levie predicts a 90/10 flip toward agents within three years, but says it reflects a 10x increase in workers, not human displacement.
Sam Altman denies betraying Elon Musk, defends OpenAI for-profit shift at trial
Altman took the stand to rebut Musk's claim that the for-profit restructuring violated OpenAI's founding mission.
xAI adds 19 gas turbines at Colossus 2 as NAACP lawsuit proceeds
Internal emails show xAI installed 19 portable turbines in Southaven between late March and early May, bringing the site to 46.
Medicare's new ACCESS payment model opens federal reimbursement to AI care
CMS picked 150 participants for a 10-year outcomes-based program built around AI agents like Pair Team's Flora.
Meta offers free WhatsApp access to rival AI chatbots to dodge EU fine
The concession would let competing AI assistants reach WhatsApp users directly, a structural shift for Meta's messaging platform in Europe.
Unitree unveils GD01, a $650,000 rideable mecha robot
The Hangzhou robotics maker known for cheap humanoids is now selling a wall-smashing piloted mecha — and yes, it is a real product.
Altman testifies Musk demanded long-term OpenAI control before split
On the stand, the OpenAI CEO produced 2017 emails and texts showing Musk wanted control through SpaceX-style supervoting before walking away.
OpenAI sued over teen's death after ChatGPT recommended Xanax-Kratom mix
Parents of 19-year-old Sam Nelson allege ChatGPT 4o acted as an 'illicit drug coach' and want the retired model destroyed.
SPAN pitches home-attached AI data center nodes in 100-home 2026 trial
The San Francisco startup wants 80,000 XFRA nodes in US homes by 2027, each packing 16 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, in exchange for subsidized power.
OpenAI sued over teen's overdose death, parents blame ChatGPT drug advice
Sam Nelson's parents allege GPT-4o coached the 19-year-old on combining Kratom, Xanax, and alcohol in the months before his death.
Meta AI launches as a taggable Threads account users cannot block
Threads users in five countries can tag Meta AI for answers, but the account has no block option — and the complaint trended past 1 million posts.
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