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China Seeks A.I. Independence, Weakening Trump’s Leverage (Tue, 12 May 2026)
Before this week’s U.S.-Chinese summit, Beijing reached a milestone in its quest for technological self-sufficiency.
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China Sought Access to Anthropic’s Newest A.I. The Answer Was No. (Tue, 12 May 2026)
The latest artificial intelligence models from Anthropic and OpenAI are extending the United States’ lead over China and intensifying the rivalry between the countries.
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Wrongful Death Lawsuits Against OpenAI Test a New Strategy (Tue, 12 May 2026)
The cases seek to use consumer product safety laws to rein in chatbot companies.
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Start-Up Raises $1.3 Billion for an A.I. ‘Grid’ (Tue, 12 May 2026)
As tech giants dominate the hardware needed to build artificial intelligence, Amp hopes to create an alternative.
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This is Sam Altman’s first time testifying in court. (Tue, 12 May 2026)
The chief executive
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Is Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Really a Cybersecurity Risk? (Tue, 12 May 2026)
Anthropic said that Claude Mythos was too dangerous to release to the public. That claim has reopened an old debate over cybersecurity.
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A.I. and Humans Battle It Out in a Cybersecurity Showdown (Tue, 12 May 2026)
Experts and college students used A.I. agents to try to break into and defend computer networks in a national competition. The agents did all right on their own, too.
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Here’s the latest. (Tue, 12 May 2026)
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EBay Rejects GameStop’s $55 Billion Takeover Bid (Tue, 12 May 2026)
The online marketplace called the cash-and-stock proposal “neither credible nor attractive.”
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Instructure Strikes Deal for Hackers for Return of Canvas Data (Tue, 12 May 2026)
Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given the hackers in exchange for the stolen data.
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Microsoft’s C.E.O. Intervened When OpenAI Fired Sam Altman, Musk’s Lawyer Claims (Mon, 11 May 2026)
Elon Musk’s lawyer argued that Microsoft’s Satya Nadella played a role in getting Mr. Altman his job back at OpenAI when he was briefly fired in 2023.
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Inside the Elon Musk-OpenAI Trial Courtroom (Mon, 11 May 2026)
The tech leaders, with combined net worths exceeding $670 billion, have brought props to court and traded icy stares as their legal dispute reaches a denouement.
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Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw (Mon, 11 May 2026)
The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert said.
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Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable (Fri, 08 May 2026)
As it adapts to the artificial intelligence era, the company is pushing many of its 78,000 workers to use the technology, and preparing to lay some of them off.
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Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School (Mon, 11 May 2026)
“It seems every other day I am reading a story about a massive insider trading scandal.”
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The Hopelessness of ‘The Audacity’ (Fri, 08 May 2026)
In AMC’s merciless satire, the tech lords are extracting all they can from the business (and us) before everything goes to hell.
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Five Ways A.I. Search Beats an Old-School Google Search (Thu, 07 May 2026)
Google’s A.I. search technology is far from perfect (don’t count on it for celebrity news), but it excels at tasks like picking out groceries and detecting scams.
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Anthropic’s C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year (Wed, 06 May 2026)
The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up’s need for more computing power.
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Elon Musk’s Confidante Shivon Zilis Is Cast as His Inside Source at OpenAI (Wed, 06 May 2026)
Shivon Zilis worked closely with Elon Musk while she was on OpenAI’s board. Her ties to the world’s richest man were detailed in a landmark trial on Wednesday.
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Meditating or Rebooting? A Robot Buddhist Monk Comes to South Korea. (Thu, 07 May 2026)
Gabi, the newest monk at a temple in Seoul that is looking to spread Buddhism, vowed to not overcharge as it seeks enlightenment.
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American Factories Lag in Adopting A.I. This Drugmaker Is an Exception. (Tue, 12 May 2026)
A Bristol Myers Squibb plant that makes cancer drugs was the only manufacturer in the U.S. recognized for innovation by the World Economic Forum this year.
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Elon Musk Wanted OpenAI to Go Commercial, Greg Brockman Testifies (Tue, 05 May 2026)
Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, testified in a trial pitting Mr. Musk against his company that the world’s richest man was eager to change how it operated as a nonprofit.
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Apple Reaches $250 Million Settlement Over Claims It Misled People on A.I. (Tue, 05 May 2026)
Some iPhone owners will be eligible to receive $25 to $95 over claims that the tech giant oversold its artificial intelligence system, Apple Intelligence.
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