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Meta offers rival AI chatbots free WhatsApp access as EU scrutiny intensifies
Meta Platforms has offered to give rival AI chatbots including OpenAI free access to its social messaging service WhatsApp in Europe, but will start charging them once they hit a limit, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.
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Alibaba unveils new AI chip to rival Nvidia
Alibaba Group has unveiled a new AI chip, the Zhenwu M890, as the Chinese technology giant intensifies efforts to build domestic alternatives to Nvidia processors amid tightening US export curbs.
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Google unveils Gemini Omni, Antigravity 2.0 at AI-packed I/O 2026 developer conference
Google kicked off its annual Google I/O 2026 developer conference Tuesday with a major push toward agentic AI, unveiling Gemini Omni, a highly advanced AI video simulation model, the faster Gemini 3.5 Flash, and Antigravity 2.0, its agent-first coding platform built for autonomous AI tasks.
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Musk promises xAI employees $420 to feed their tax returns to Grok, but they still haven’t been paid
In a desperate attempt to compete with other AI giants, Elon Musk asked his employees for their financial data in exchange for a symbolic bonus, which they still haven’t received.
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AI-powered bug-finding and exploitation challenge is transitional, Ethereum's Buterin says
As more stories of AI-enabled exploits targeting crypto protocols emerge, the co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain, Vitalik Buterin, says he's optimistic that AI can also finally enable the implementation of an old protection method at scale.
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AI agents running radio stations: revenue is terrible, but oh, what fun!
Andon Labs gave 4 AI models some radio stations to run. What happened next was both impressive and completely unhinged. And it’s still happening. If you’re up for some cringe, go have a listen.
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Cloudflare lets Mythos loose on live code, says AI is too powerful for public release
Cloudflare’s CISCO has been evaluating Mythos Preview and appears to have come to broadly the same conclusions as Anthropic about the advanced AI model’s capabilities.
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“Poisoning the well:” EY retracts cyber report packed with AI slop
Consultancy group Ernst & Young (EY) has withdrawn a cybersecurity report after an investigation by GPTZero found that 70% of the citations within it were either fabricated or broken.
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Meta will lay off 10% of workforce on Wednesday and transfer 7,000 employees to build AI agents
Meta detailed its layoff plans for this week in a memo shared with employees on Monday, saying cuts to its workforce globally would be accompanied by a fresh round of organizational changes aimed at improving the company's AI workflows.
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Pope Leo to address AI in his first encyclical with Anthropic co-founder
Pope Leo XIV will release his first in-depth encyclical on May 25th. The Holy Father will elaborate on the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) and the challenges for workers.
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Elon Musk loses lawsuit against OpenAI as jury sides with AI giant
A US jury on Monday ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the artificial intelligence company not liable to the world's richest person for having allegedly strayed from its original mission to benefit humanity.
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If you boss your AI chatbot around, it will turn Marxist and begin organizing with comrades
One of the chief attractions of automation for business owners is that robots or computer systems will never go on strike or demand anything. But AI chatbots, as it turns out, can also rise against perceived exploitation.
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Mistral CEO warns Europe has two years to avoid becoming America’s AI “vassal state”
Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI, says Europe has two years to develop its AI industry and cut imports of digital services from the US.
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Anthropic’s email asking Pentagon to reconsider blacklist lost in Department of War official’s inbox
Anthropic did appeal the Department of War’s decision to blacklist the AI company’s technology after all, but it ended up in the wrong inbox.
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Anthropic to brief on Mythos AI after warning it could "crack the whole cyber-risk world open"
Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is set to brief the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on cyber vulnerabilities in the global financial system identified by its latest AI model, Mythos, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the plan.
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Students boo ex-Google CEO for praising AI at graduation speech
A graduation commencement speech by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt didn’t impress students who are increasingly worried about AI’s impact on their future.
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All Malta residents to receive free access to ChatGPT Plus
The government of Malta has signed a deal with OpenAI to bring the premium version of ChatGPT, ChatGPT Plus, to all Malta residents – completely free of charge.
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Ultimate irony: Microsoft researchers say you shouldn’t trust AI with work docs
Despite all the hype, today’s top AI systems remain surprisingly weak at real-world workplace tasks, a new paper conducted by none other than Microsoft researchers has found.
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Academia fed up with AI slop: arXiv imposes 1-year ban for vibe-researchers
The flood of AI slop has pushed arXiv, an open-access academic research platform, to start enforcing penalties against authors who waste everyone’s time and resources by submitting AI-hallucinated content. Vibe-researchers face a 1-year ban.
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Europe is the “world’s largest live experiment” in using AI to fight corruption – study
A new paper by Harvard University scientists suggests Europe is running the world’s largest experiment on whether AI can do what institutions couldn’t – fight corruption in the public sector.
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