AI News Archive: May 2, 2026 — Part 2
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- AI got bougie? Research finds access skewed towards the rich, risking a new social divide
A new study finds AI awareness and usage are higher among wealthier groups, raising concerns about a growing digital divide and unequal access to opportunities.
- AI is now the bull case for the broader market—enough to even revive old tech
Many companies are benefiting from the feedback loop being created by AI demand. Just don’t call it “parabolic.”
- ChatGPT now tracks users for ads by default as OpenAI looks for new revenue
OpenAI has turned on marketing cookies by default for free ChatGPT users in countries where ads are running. Tracking is automatically active for free accounts but not for paying subscribers. You can disable it in your account settings. The article ChatGPT now tracks users for ads by default as OpenAI looks for new revenue appeared first on The Decoder .
Score: 51🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://the-decoder.com/chatgpt-now-tracks-users-for-ads-by-default-as-openai-looks-for-new-revenue/ - Republican voters skeptical of AI, poll shows, as Trump pushes deregulation
About 3 out of 4 Americans who voted for the president support some form of government oversight on artificial intelligence — even as the Trump administration pushes deregulation.
- AI-Powered High School Scrapped After Protests Erupt Against It
"If there's anything that even has a hint of AI, there's strong opposition to it." The post AI-Powered High School Scrapped After Protests Erupt Against It appeared first on Futurism .
- These 3 companies are keeping the lights on for AI’s energy demand — and cashing in
The headlines focus on apps, but the big money is flowing to agentic AI’s boring industrial backbone.
- Nvidia built the AI engine. Alphabet is building the car, the road, and the toll booth. The market is pricing accordingly.
On Thursday, Alphabet’s share price rose nearly 10 per cent after the company reported first-quarter revenue of $109.9 billion, a 22 per cent increase year over year that beat analyst estimates by almost $3 billion. Google Cloud crossed $20 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, growing 63 per cent. The cloud backlog nearly […] This story continues at The Next Web
Score: 50🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://thenextweb.com/news/alphabet-overtake-nvidia-market-cap-mag-seven - Tesla Got $573 Million from SpaceX and xAI in 2025
There’s been a lot of talk lately that Tesla may well end up merging with SpaceX, and with both companies shifting more and more toward AI and its supportive infrastructure, perhaps that is now Elon Musk’s big plan. Of course, both Tesla and SpaceX have built their fortunes on other ... [continued] The post Tesla Got $573 Million from SpaceX and xAI in 2025 appeared first on CleanTechnica .
Score: 49🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://cleantechnica.com/2026/05/01/tesla-got-573-million-from-spacex-and-xai-in-2025/ - Navigating power challenges in the age of AI: Trends and solutions for high-density data centers
By Peter Panfil, Distinguished Engineer & Vice President of Technical Business Development, Vertiv Artificial intelligence is changing the physical profile of the data center faster than most legacy power architectures […] The post Navigating power challenges in the age of AI: Trends and solutions for high-density data centers appeared first on Express Computer .
- The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs
Drug companies like Eli Lilly and Roche are racing to build supercomputers to help fix the 90% failure rate in drug development.
Score: 49🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/the-quest-to-use-ai-to-help-find-new-drugs-a754fdc3?mod=rss_Technology - Even the latest AI models make three systematic reasoning errors, ARC-AGI-3 analysis shows
The ARC Prize Foundation analyzed 160 game runs of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's Opus 4.7 on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark. Three systematic error patterns explain why both models stay below 1 percent on tasks that humans can solve without much trouble. The article Even the latest AI models make three systematic reasoning errors, ARC-AGI-3 analysis shows appeared first on The Decoder .
- From lab to real-world solutions: Underwriting China’s AI & Deep Tech Future
From lab to real-world solutions: Underwriting China’s AI & Deep Tech Future DealStreetAsia Events
- Bank CEO Brags He Used AI Clone of Himself to Host Conference Call
We're sure everyone loved that. The post Bank CEO Brags He Used AI Clone of Himself to Host Conference Call appeared first on Futurism .
- Man says Waymo drove away with his luggage
Man says Waymo drove away with his luggage
Score: 47🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts/man-says-waymo-drove-away-with-his-luggage-262597701755 - Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
Plus: The NSA tests Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to find vulnerabilities, a Finnish teen is charged over the Scattered Spider hacking spree, and more.
Score: 47🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-disneyland-now-uses-face-recognition-on-visitors/ - As AI upends shopping, retailers tailor their pitches for chatbots
Marketers are shifting from search engines to chatbots, aiming to get brands recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude
- AI threatens Big Law's talent pipeline
Artificial intelligence is wiping out some entry-level work that trains the next generation of elite lawyers. Why it matters: Big Law's entire business model depends on armies of junior associates learning on the job. If AI erases that rung, the profession faces a long-term talent crisis. The big picture: The legal profession's most important classroom, the early-career grind of junior and summer associates, is quietly reshaping, as the path to partnership is being rewritten in real-time. Firms are racing to "extract the knowledge of their lawyers" and embed it in AI workflows, client portals and self-service tools, Stanford Law professor David Freeman Engstrom tells Axios. That could mean "getting ready for a world in which you need fewer human lawyers," he said. Yes, but: Tiffany J. Tucker, assistant dean for career development at the University of Houston Law Center says AI may create new legal jobs rather than erase entry-level ones. Students with AI skills are becoming "the more a
Score: 46🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.axios.com/2026/05/02/ai-lawyers-law-firms-artificial-intelligence - New Bluekit Phishing Kit Features AI Assistant
Still under development, Bluekit provides users with automated domain registration and an AI Assistant. The post New Bluekit Phishing Kit Features AI Assistant appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Score: 46🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.securityweek.com/new-bluekit-phishing-kit-features-ai-assistant/ - The fight over data centres at the heart of Japanese cities
Japan is getting ready for a huge surge in AI facilities — and complaints from nearby residents
- Under a cloud: the growing resentment against the massive datacentres sprouting across Australian cities
Residents say AI factories with unknown environmental impacts are being rushed into development as proponents argue Australia must ride the data boom or be left behind Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast When West Footscray resident Sean Brown takes his 19-month-old boy to the park, their walk passes an imposing new building cheerily spruiked as “Australia’s largest hyperscale AI factory”, a datacentre called M3. He hates it: the construction noise from its constant expansion, the looming towers and the insistent background hum, the exhaust from the growing array of diesel generators that can help power the ranks of servers inside. Continue reading...
Score: 45🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/ai-datacentres-australia-opposition - Physics-Informed AI: Why LLMs Need Solvers, Constraints, and Physical Laws
Part 1 of 2 — An engineering view of how LLMs, physics-informed ML, and numerical solvers can work together without pretending that AI guarantees physical correctness. LLMs can produce fluent explanations of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and control theory. The concern, from an engineering perspective, is not whether an answer sounds correct. The concern is whether it satisfies conservation laws, boundary conditions, and operational constraints. Ask a general-purpose LLM to predict the pressure drop across a pipe given real boundary conditions and specific fluid parameters. Not describe the concept, but compute a physically valid answer. The output may be confident and well-formatted. It may also be wrong in ways that are difficult to detect without a reference solver. This is not a failure of scale or data quality. It is a structural limitation: standard LLMs are trained to predict the next token. Physics is governed by differential equations that must hold everywhere in a domain,
- Data centers used to be a prize. States are having second thoughts.
Legislators in at least 28 states this year introduced bills that would roll back tax incentives for the energy-hungry facilities.
Score: 45🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/02/data-centers-states-tax-incentives-00891184 - AI actors no longer eligible for Oscars
AI actors no longer eligible for Oscars The Telegraph
Score: 44🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/02/ai-actors-no-longer-eligible-for-oscars/ - Software feeling buggy lately? It’s not your device — it might be AI 'Slop'
Software feeling buggy lately? It’s not your device — it might be AI 'Slop' Tom's Guide
Score: 44🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/software-feeling-buggy-lately-its-not-your-device-it-might-be-ai-slop - 'HearMe': This UAE student made an app which translates sign language into written text
'HearMe': This UAE student made an app which translates sign language into written text
Score: 44🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/hearme-app-translate-sign-language-written-text - English councils to trial Google AI tool to speed up planning decisions
Artificial intelligence will make recommendations on whether to grant or refuse projects
- AI spending boom soars but no returns for big tech giants, warns Jefferies’ Chris Wood
Rising AI investments by global tech giants are straining cash flows, with capex nearing record levels relative to operating cash flow. Despite aggressive spending, monetisation remains uncertain, prompting concerns over profitability. Analysts warn the AI sector may resemble capital-intensive industries, even as competition intensifies and early signs of financial strain emerge.
- Joanna Stern takes one of the viral dancing humanoid robots home
Dancing robots went viral but what would happen if you took one of them home? NBC News' Joanna Stern decided to find out.
Score: 43🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.nbcnews.com/video/joanna-stern-takes-one-of-the-viral-dancing-humanoid-robots-home-262572613691 - A robot fried this rice? Okanagan restaurant embraces AI-powered help in the kitchen
A robot fried this rice? Okanagan restaurant embraces AI-powered help in the kitchen CBC
Score: 43🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vernon-restaurant-ai-robot-kitchen-9.7185000 - Soylent founder’s latest bet is on insurance for robots
Soylent founder’s latest bet is on insurance for robots PitchBook
Score: 42🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/soylent-founders-latest-bet-is-on-insurance-for-robots - Filipino jobs among most exposed to GenAI risks in ASEAN
The Philippines' service-driven economy puts it at the upper end of ASEAN jobs at risk of losing to AI.
Score: 42🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.philstar.com/business/2026/05/02/2525174/filipino-jobs-among-most-exposed-genai-risks-asean - AI is driving new wave of startups with smaller teams: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes artificial intelligence is fueling a new wave of startups, empowering small teams and even individuals to build and scale businesses. He highlighted that AI's advancements are lowering entry barriers, enabling efficient, lean companies. This technological shift, akin to past platform revolutions, is creating fertile ground for innovation and significant scientific and economic progress.
- Stop letting ChatGPT and other AI chatbots train on your data. Here’s why—and how
When you interact with a chatbot, there’s a good chance that everything you say, and every prompt you give, isn’t just used to generate replies to your queries. Nearly every chatbot company on the planet also uses the information you provide to train its AI models. This can leave your privacy—and even your employer’s confidential information—exposed. But you can mitigate these privacy risks by telling chatbots not to use your data for training. Here’s how. What is AI chatbot training? In order for a chatbot to provide knowledgeable and (hopefully) accurate answers, the underlying large language model (LLM) that powers it needs to assimilate a massive amount of information, which it then uses to help answer your questions. This process of information assimilation is known as “training.” The more information an LLM trains on, the more intelligent the LLM, ostensibly, gets. LLMs acquire training data from numerous sources, including public websites, social media platforms, encyclopedias,
- OpenAI’s CFO Reportedly Wants to Delay the IPO from 2026 to 2027
OpenAI's revenue picture is reportedly not pretty, and a new report says its chief financial officer wants to calm spending down before going public.
Score: 41💰 MoneyMay 2, 2026https://gizmodo.com/openais-cfo-reportedly-wants-to-delay-the-ipo-from-2026-to-2027-2000753760 - How RoshAi Is Driving Autonomy In Ports And Mining Operations
Severe driver shortage is an issue not just in population-starved countries like the US, but also those like India, which…
Score: 40🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://inc42.com/startups/how-roshai-is-driving-autonomy-in-ports-and-mining-operations/ - ‘Data governance is equal to trust’: Qlik’s Varun Babbar on AI’s shift from experimentation to scale
‘Data governance is equal to trust’: Qlik’s Varun Babbar on AI’s shift from experimentation to scale
- How Mass. can balance data center growth and climate goals
How Mass. can balance data center growth and climate goals The Boston Globe
Score: 40🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/02/opinion/data-center-growth-climate-goals/ - Amazon Is Using AI Podcast Hosts to Sell Adult Diapers and Fake Dog Poop
Amazon Is Using AI Podcast Hosts to Sell Adult Diapers and Fake Dog Poop PCMag
Score: 40🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-is-using-ai-podcast-hosts-to-sell-adult-diapers-and-fake-dog-poop - How this Japanese toilet maker became an unlikely AI winner
How this Japanese toilet maker became an unlikely AI winner
- The Future of Work Isn’t Human vs. AI. It’s Human With AI
Treat AI like a system, and you’ll scale.
Score: 39🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.inc.com/heather-wilde/the-future-of-work-isnt-human-vs-ai-its-human-with-ai/91335123 - AI risks keep me up at night, says Kotak Bank CEO
Kotak Mahindra Bank Q4 profit rose 13%, but CEO flagged rising AI-driven cyber risks.
- Most Irish companies say AI won’t hit their staff numbers
Use of AI in job interviews becoming a greater flashpoint
- The Epistemic Costs of Super-Persuasive AI
The Epistemic Costs of Super-Persuasive AI repository.cam.ac.uk
Score: 38🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/ca88c390-f6b6-474a-9b70-814fc7211144 - A 22-Year-Old Dropout Just Reverse-Engineered The World’s Scariest AI
A self-taught developer reverse-engineered Anthropic's structural innovation for its powerful Mythos model in a matter of days.
- CI Web Group Launches Hydra OS: The 1st AI-First OS for Small Business Websites
CI Web Group Launches Hydra OS: The 1st AI-First OS for Small Business Websites USA Today
- ACHS Highlights AI in Assessment and Innovative Credentials at WSCUC ARC 2026
ACHS Highlights AI in Assessment and Innovative Credentials at WSCUC ARC 2026 The Arizona Republic
- The End of the Great AI Race Is Coming—Get Your Apps Launched Now
Why Anthropic’s potential $1 trillion valuation is a signal for the end times.
Score: 36🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.inc.com/joe-procopio/the-end-of-the-great-ai-race-is-coming-get-your-apps-launched-now/91339551 - Lift AI Introduces Website Buyer Probability Scoring to Improve AI-Driven GTM
Lift AI Introduces Website Buyer Probability Scoring to Improve AI-Driven GTM USA Today
- Build a Multi-Agent AI Workflow for Biological Network Modeling, Protein Interactions, Metabolism, and Cell Signaling Simulation
Build a Multi-Agent AI Workflow for Biological Network Modeling, Protein Interactions, Metabolism, and Cell Signaling Simulation MarkTechPost
- AI Has All the Answers. You’re Just Asking the Wrong Questions
Garbage in, garbage out. That’s the real AI problem.
Score: 34🌐 MovesMay 2, 2026https://www.inc.com/tony-manganiello/from-failure-to-success-how-to-create-a-winning-ai-strategy/91331818