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Stool-App Founder Tried Selling 150,000 User Photos as CTF Scene Declares Itself Dead

May 16, 2026

1. The founder of a stool-analysis app tried to sell 150,000 user photos to a reporter "I hoarded a large database of something valuable, just not what you...

ChatGPT Reads US Pro Users' Bank Accounts as Three Benchmarks Declare Agent Memory Broken

May 15, 2026

1. ChatGPT can now read your financial accounts. Only US Pro subscribers can turn it on. OpenAI launched a preview that lets ChatGPT connect directly to a...

OpenAI Slips Codex Into ChatGPT as Microsoft Pulls Claude Code From Its Own Engineers

May 14, 2026

1. The Same Week OpenAI Slid Codex Into ChatGPT, Microsoft Began Pulling Claude Code From Its Own Devs Microsoft has begun canceling internal Claude Code...

Medicare Opens AI Agent Billing as Developers Blame Codex for Cognitive Decline

May 13, 2026

1. Medicare just built the first billing channel for AI agents that work between doctor visits Until last week, no part of the U.S. government could pay a...

GM Cuts IT Jobs for AI Skills as Teen's ChatGPT Log Anchors Wrongful-Death Suit

May 12, 2026

1. 'Tokenmaxxing' enters the corporate lexicon the same week GM cuts hundreds of IT jobs over AI skills At Amazon, employees have started "tokenmaxxing":...

Laid-Off Screenwriters Now Grade the AI That Replaced Them as Google's Bug-Hunter Finds Its First Zero-Day

May 11, 2026

1. The screenwriters Hollywood stopped hiring are now grading the AI that replaced them A Wired essay this week opens with a working screenwriter's tally: 20...

Cloudflare Pins 1,100 Layoffs on AI as Revenue Hits a Record, Chrome Quietly Ships 4GB Local Model

May 10, 2026

1. Cloudflare blamed AI for 1,100 cuts. Its revenue hit a record the same week. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told staff this week that AI efficiency gains...

Three Companies Place $40B, $55B, and 490% Bets on the Same AI Chip Chokepoint

May 9, 2026

1. $40B in equity, $55B in concrete, 490% in stock: three opposite bets on the AI silicon chokepoint Nvidia has committed $40 billion to equity stakes in AI...

AlphaEvolve Optimizes DeepMind From Within as OpenAI's Codex Stack Sets the Coding-Agent Compliance Bar

May 8, 2026

1. AlphaEvolve, DeepMind's research agent, is now optimizing DeepMind itself AlphaEvolve started as a Gemini-powered coding agent DeepMind described in...

OpenAI Ships Reasoning Voice API While ASUS Loses Five Million Boards to AI Foundries

May 7, 2026

1. OpenAI shipped a reasoning voice API with Parloa and Uber already running on it OpenAI released new realtime voice models in its API and pushed out two...

Anthropic Signs Musk as Fourth Compute Landlord While Developers Split on What AI Coding Even Means

May 6, 2026

1. Anthropic's fourth compute landlord this year is Elon Musk Anthropic raised Claude Code's usage limits this week and named SpaceX as the supplier...

Apple Paid $250M for a Siri That Never Shipped, Hands iOS to OpenAI Next Year

May 5, 2026

1. Apple paid $250M for the AI Siri it never shipped. Next year it plans to hand iOS to OpenAI. Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action...

Anthropic and OpenAI Court Wall Street as Retracted Study Undercuts AI's School Push

May 4, 2026

1. Anthropic and OpenAI Each Built Wall Street JVs This Week to Sell Their Enterprise AI On May 4, Anthropic announced a joint venture with Blackstone,...

Artisan Lifts "This Is Fine" Dog Without Asking, Mythos Cyber Claim Falters Against Kimi K2.6

May 3, 2026

1. Artisan's 'Stop Hiring Humans' campaign used the 'This is fine' dog. KC Green says he was never asked KC Green drew the cartoon dog sipping coffee in a...

A Christian Network Blocks Porn While Its Audience Buys $5 AI Bible Videos

May 2, 2026

1. A Christian Phone Network Will Block Porn Next Week. The Same Audience Is Buying AI Bible Videos on Fiverr for $5. A new US cell phone network marketed to...

OpenAI Quietly Gates GPT-5.5 Cyber After Pledging to Democratize AI Defense

May 1, 2026

1. OpenAI promised to democratize AI cyber defense. GPT-5.5 Cyber ships to a vetted list. OpenAI said GPT-5.5 Cyber, its new cybersecurity testing tool, will...

Musk Admits xAI Trained Grok on OpenAI Models as Zig Bans AI-Generated Pull Requests

April 30, 2026

1. xAI trained Grok on OpenAI's models, Musk testified. Then his lawyer fumbled the next witness's identity. Elon Musk testified Thursday in a California...

Meta Cuts 700 Labelers as Mercor Leaks 4TB of Voice Data and Insulin Patient Gets 27,000 AI Answers

April 29, 2026

1. 700 Meta labelers face Irish layoffs the same week 4TB of contractor voice samples leaked from Mercor Covalen warned more than 700 employees their jobs...

Musk Tells the Court OpenAI's IPO Puts Humanity at Stake

April 28, 2026

1. On the witness stand, Musk made OpenAI's IPO trial about saving humanity Elon Musk took the stand in a Northern California courtroom this week. He opened...

OpenAI Swaps AGI Escape Clause for AWS Deal as Google VPs Revolt Over Pentagon Contract

April 27, 2026

1. OpenAI Traded the AGI Escape Hatch for an AWS Account For five years, one paragraph in OpenAI's contract with Microsoft set the terms of the AI industry's...