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Microsoft Pulls Claude Code From Its Own Engineers After DeepSeek Locks In a Discount
May 24, 2026
1. Trump labeled his own AI safety order an "innovation blocker" after the CEOs declined to attend the signing The signing event was on the calendar. An...
Wozniak Tells Graduates Their AI Matters More, Codex Earns Leader Status as Virgin Atlantic Hits Zero P1 Defects
May 23, 2026
1. Steve Wozniak told graduates the AI that matters is theirs, not the machine's Steve Wozniak walked to the podium and told the 2026 graduates in front of...
Developers Strip AI Watermarks, Block Slop, and Get 26 Days to Quit Gemini CLI
May 22, 2026
1. A tool to block AI slop drew 457 Hacker News upvotes, beside two anti-AI essays Three items reached Hacker News's front page in one week, each pointing at...
Jury Rejects Musk's Claims Against Altman as Anthropic Seizes OpenAI's SDK Tool
May 18, 2026
1. The jury needed two hours to reject every Musk claim against Altman After roughly two hours of deliberation, the jury in Musk v. Altman returned a...
Graduating Seniors Boo Eric Schmidt Every Time He Mentions AI in Commencement Speech
May 17, 2026
1. Eric Schmidt Tried to Sell AI to Graduating Seniors. They Booed Every Time He Said It Eric Schmidt stood at the University of Arizona commencement on...
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...
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