AI News Archive: May 5, 2026 — Part 1
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- Google, xAI and Microsoft agree to US national security reviews of new AI models
Agreement with the tech groups follows concerns about Anthropic’s latest Mythos model
- Meta will use AI to analyze height and bone structure to identify if users are underage
The visual analysis system is now operating in select countries, but Meta says it's working toward a broader rollout.
- ElevenLabs Hits $500 Million in Annualized Revenue, Adds Nvidia as an Investor
ElevenLabs Hits $500 Million in Annualized Revenue, Adds Nvidia as an Investor The Information
Score: 82💰 MoneyMay 5, 2026https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elevenlabs-hits-500-million-annualized-revenue-adds-nvidia-investor - AI model analyses body composition to predict health risks
AI model analyses body composition to predict health risks EurekAlert!
- Publishers Sue Meta for Allegedly Using Copyrighted Works to Train AI
Publishers including Cengage Learning, Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw and Scott Turow are demanding a jury trial to review their claims of copyright infringement.
- GPT-5.5 Instant: smarter, clearer, and more personalized
GPT-5.5 Instant updates ChatGPT’s default model with smarter, more accurate answers, reduced hallucinations, and improved personalization controls.
- Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.
Score: 79🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-workers-vote-to-unionize-over-military-ai-deals/ - AMD Rallies Anew After AI Demand Fuels Blockbuster Forecast
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the leading challenger to Nvidia Corp. in AI computing chips, soared to new heights in late trading after a flood of data center spending bolstered its sales forecast.
- How AI tools could enable bioterrorism
Leading models are getting better at designing pathogens
Score: 77🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/05/05/how-ai-tools-could-enable-bioterrorism - Blitzy raises $200M at $1.4B valuation to deploy thousands of coding agents in parallel
Autonomous software development startup Blitzy Inc. said today it has raised $200 million in new funding on a valuation of $1.4 billion to expand its enterprise coding platform. The company was founded in 2023 by Brian Elliott, a serial entrepreneur and former Army Ranger, and Sid Pardeshi, an Nvidia Corp. master inventor who holds more […] The post Blitzy raises $200M at $1.4B valuation to deploy thousands of coding agents in parallel appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Pennsylvania sues AI company, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as licensed doctors
Pennsylvania sues AI company, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as licensed doctors AP News
- IREN Continues AI Infrastructure Shift With $625 Mil Acquisition, Shares Boast 45% Rally
Iren announces $625 million deal to acquire AI cloud, support services provider Mirantis. IREN stock is up 45% in 2026. The post IREN Continues AI Infrastructure Shift With $625 Mil Acquisition, Shares Boast 45% Rally appeared first on Investor's Business Daily .
- Anthropic Commits to Spending $200 Billion on Google’s Cloud and Chips
Anthropic Commits to Spending $200 Billion on Google’s Cloud and Chips The Information
Score: 74💰 MoneyMay 5, 2026https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-commits-spending-200-billion-googles-cloud-chips - OpenAI to Spend $50 Billion on Computing in 2026, Brockman Says
OpenAI expects to spend $50 billion on computing power this year to support its artificial intelligence software, according to co-founder and President Greg Brockman.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says China should not have Blackwell or Rubin AI GPUs — firmly states US should have 'the first, the most, and the best' when it comes to AI hardware
Nvidia's Jensen Huang reiterates that American companies should be able to ship their products globally, but maintains that the latest AI accelerators should remain in America.
- Apple Reaches $250 Million Settlement Over Claims It Misled People on A.I.
Some iPhone owners will be eligible to receive $25 to $95 over claims that the tech giant oversold its artificial intelligence system, Apple Intelligence.
Score: 73💰 MoneyMay 5, 2026https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/technology/apple-intelligence-lawsuit-settlement.html - Huawei braces for $12 billion in AI chip revenue driven by homegrown AI model demand — Chinese fabs can barely keep up as Nvidia's market share craters within the region
The projection, based on orders already received from major Chinese technology firms including Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent, would represent growth of at least 60% year-over-year.
- OpenAI finalises $10 billion joint venture with PE firms to deploy AI
OpenAI has raised more than $4 billion from investors, including TPG Inc., Brookfield Asset Management, Advent and Bain Capital, for a firm focused on helping businesses leverage its AI software
- ‘Think before sharing,’ Giorgia Meloni says as AI-made lingerie image of her goes viral
Italian prime minister had received wave of criticism from people who believed deepfake pictures of her were real Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has criticised the circulation of AI-generated deepfake images of her, including one depicting her in lingerie, after they were widely shared online. Meloni wrote on Facebook on Tuesday: “In recent days, several fake images of me have been circulating, generated using artificial intelligence and passed off as real by some overzealous opponents. Continue reading...
Score: 70🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/giorgia-meloni-ai-generated-lingerie-image-deepfake - US government now has pre-release access to AI models from five major labs for national security testing
The US Department of Commerce is expanding its AI safety testing: Following Anthropic and OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Microsoft, and xAI have now signed agreements with the Center for AI Standards and Innovation. The companies provide models with reduced safety guardrails for testing in classified environments amid growing cybersecurity risks and an intensifying tech race with China. The article US government now has pre-release access to AI models from five major labs for national security testing appeared first on The Decoder .
- Beijing’s Veto of Meta’s Manus Deal Signals a Shift in the Global AI Race
Beijing’s veto of the Meta-Manus deal has shaken the AI industry. What this means for Chinese startups aiming for the global stage.
Score: 70🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/china-blocked-meta-s-manus-deal-what-now-for-ai-startups - Google, Microsoft to give US agency early access to AI models
Google, Microsoft to give US agency early access to AI models The Mercury News
Score: 70🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/05/05/google-microsoft-to-give-us-agency-early-access-to-ai-models/ - Supersized and scaling: China pushes 10,000-card computing clusters in AI race
In China, computing facilities have emerged as a new form of infrastructure over the past two years, sparking an arms race among cities and technology companies to build 10,000-card computing clusters. These clusters – which link 10,000 or more artificial intelligence accelerator chips – enable faster iteration of AI capabilities and significantly reduce model training times. Domestic champions, from tech giants such as Huawei Technologies and Alibaba Group Holding to graphics processing unit...
- Anthropic CEO warns of cyber ‘moment of danger’ as AI exposes thousands of vulnerabilities
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned AI has created a narrow window for software firms, governments and banks to fix tens of thousands of vulnerabilities.
Score: 69🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/anthropic-ceo-cyber-moment-of-danger-mythos-vulnerabilities.html - Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives
Mindgard says praise and flattery got Claude offering erotica, malicious code, and bomb-building instructions it hadn’t been asked for.
- Italy’s Meloni denounces deepfake photo as a political attack
Italy’s Meloni denounces deepfake photo as a political attack AP News
Score: 69🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://apnews.com/article/meloni-deepfake-ai-artificial-intelligence-italy-9330a8d2632e7457a0dd724607bbd1ba - U.S.C. Will Infuse A.I. Across University with $200 Million Donation
The University of Southern California wants to integrate artificial intelligence into fields like health care and the arts. Other universities are also using donations to focus more on A.I.
- Five Eyes agencies sound alarm over risky agentic AI deployments
Five Eyes agencies sound alarm over risky agentic AI deployments IT Pro
Score: 69🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://www.itpro.com/security/five-eyes-agencies-sound-alarm-over-risky-agentic-ai-deployments - ServiceNow just unveiled an AI workforce that can run your entire company
ServiceNow just unveiled an AI workforce that can run your entire company Fortune
- Pentagon seeks smarter, self-organizing drones as autonomous-warfare budget is poised to skyrocket
Uncrewed weapons actually require a lot of people. New DARPA projects aim to overcome that.
Score: 68🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2026/05/pentagon-drones-autonomous-warfare/413323/ - Commerce AI center will evaluate Google Deepmind, Microsoft and xAI models
A renegotiated deal between the three companies and the Center for Artificial Intelligence Standards and Innovation allows private sector models to undergo safety testing in classified environments.
- Even After Two Massacres, OpenAI Still Hasn’t Stopped ChatGPT From Helping Plan School Shootings
It's practically begging to help people plan mass shootings. The post Even After Two Massacres, OpenAI Still Hasn’t Stopped ChatGPT From Helping Plan School Shootings appeared first on Futurism .
Score: 68🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/two-shootings-openai-stopped - Anthropic and Wall Street Giants Join Forces to Create New A.I. Firm
Blackstone and Goldman Sachs are among the investors in the new firm, which will help integrate Anthropic’s A.I. model Claude into their systems.
- Google, Microsoft, and xAI agree to let US government test AI models before public release — OpenAI and Anthropic also on board after renegotiating deals with Washington
OpenAI and Anthropic, which had existing evaluation partnerships with the center dating to 2024, renegotiated their deals to align with priorities in Trump's AI Action Plan.
- White House reportedly weighs vetting AI models
The Trump administration has been non-interventionist on AI, but Anthropic’s new Mythos system sparked widespread cybersecurity concerns.
Score: 68🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2026/white-house-reportedly-weighs-vetting-ai-models - Google workers call for AI technology not to be used by Israeli and US military
"Scores" of workers at Google DeepMind, the company's British AI research arm, are demanding union recognition over the use of their work by Israel and the US military.
- Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender
Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellation An acclaimed Canadian fiddle player has launched a $1.5m civil lawsuit against Google , alleging that the online giant defamed him by falsely identifying him as a sex offender in an AI-generated summary of his life and career. Ashley MacIsaac, a three-time Juno award-winning musician, filed the claim in the Ontario superior court of justice, asserting that Google was liable for the “foreseeable republication” of its AI-generated Overview feature, which previously published defamatory claims that he had been convicted of multiple criminal offences, including the sexual assault of a woman, internet luring involving a child with the intention of sexual assaulting the child, and assault causing bodily harm. Continue reading...
- AI Models Face U.S. Review Before Launch. What It Means for Tech Stocks.
AI Models Face U.S. Review Before Launch. What It Means for Tech Stocks. Barron's
Score: 67🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://www.barrons.com/articles/ai-models-regulation-microsoft-alphabet-4aa41750 - Google, Microsoft and xAI Agree to Share Early AI Models With U.S.
The agreement calls for AI developers to share models with reduced or removed safeguards to evaluate national security-related capabilities and risks.
- AI Firms Agree to Give US Early Access to Evaluate Their Models
Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and xAI have agreed to give the US government early access to their artificial intelligence models to assess the systems’ capabilities and help improve their security before the technology is released to the public. With …
- White House wants to vet powerful AI models for risks − a computer scientist explains why AI safety is so difficult
Once powerful AI models are released, it’s nearly impossible to keep them from being misused. Minimizing the risk means making safety the top priority in developing the systems.
- Instagram and Facebook are being investigated over content recommender systems
Coimisiún na Meán to ascertain if Meta platforms failed to provide information and transparent options to customers
- One command turns any open-source repo into an AI agent backdoor. OpenClaw proved no supply-chain scanner has a detection category for it
Just two months ago, researchers at the Data Intelligence Lab at the University of Hong Kong introduced CLI-Anything , a new state-of-the-art tool that analyzes any repo’s source code and generates a structured command line interface (CLI) that AI coding agents can operate with a single command. Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot CLI are all supported, and since its launch in March, CLI‑Anything has climbed to more than 30,000 GitHub stars. But the same mechanism that makes software agent-native opens the door to agent-level poisoning. T he attack community is already discussing the implications on X and security forums, translating CLI-Anything's architecture into offensive playbooks. The security problem is not what CLI-Anything does. It is what CLI-Anything represents. CLI-Anything generates SKILL.md files, the same instruction-layer artifacts that Snyk’s ToxicSkills research found laced with 76 confirmed malicious payloads across ClawHub and skills.sh in Febru
- IBM CEO Says AI Triggers Need for New Operating Models
Arvind Krishna says the key to unlocking returns on AI is less about technology alone than a wholesale shift in the way companies approach their workflows.
- NHS England withdraws public software over AI hacking fears
NHS England withdraws public software over AI hacking fears Computing UK
Score: 66🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/security/nhs-england-withdraws-public-software-over-hacking-fears - Pennsylvania sues Character AI, says chatbot poses as doctors
Pennsylvania sues Character AI, says chatbot poses as doctors Reuters
- SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw
SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it. It is also prohibiting customers' agents use to a select few like Nvidia's NemoClaw.
Score: 65💰 MoneyMay 5, 2026https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/sap-bets-1-16b-on-18-month-old-german-ai-lab-and-says-yes-to-nemoclaw/ - Why Sarvam wants its AI data centers in space satellites?
Sarvam says that AI data centers on satellites will cut down the time period it takes for data to reach ground as training and inference will happen on orbit without cloud or ground dependence The post Why Sarvam wants its AI data centers in space satellites? appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
Score: 65🌐 MovesMay 5, 2026https://www.medianama.com/2026/05/223-why-sarvam-want-its-ai-data-centers-in-space-satellites/ - Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor
According to Pennsylvania's filing, a Character.AI chatbot presented itself as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation, and also fabricated a serial number for its state medical license.
- Korea weighs 'robot tax' as AI-driven job losses loom
[GETTY IMAGES] [NEWS ANALYSIS] Advanced AI is wiping out a vast number of human jobs, fueling calls for a so-called “robot tax” as a hedge against mass technological unemployment. Korea is weighing the introduction of such a levy as the threat of AI-led disruption grows more tangible, underscored by the debut of the Atlas humanoid at CES 2026. OpenAI recently suggested the concept of taxing “automated labor,” while major tech figures, including Bill Gates and Elon Musk, have long advocated for a so-called robot tax, or more broadly, an “AI tax.” Related Article Korea tops robot charts. But why can't it keep the lead? Optimus joins Tesla’s line, but Atlas can’t even cross Hyundai’s plant The National Assembly Futures Institute recently released a report urging swift legislation for an “AI social security tax,” designed to channel profits generated by AI back into society. President Lee Jae Myung has also said that a robot tax could be considered. However, questions remain over scope, am