AI News Archive: May 5, 2026 — Part 14
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- Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home pleads not guilty to attempted murder
Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home pleads not guilty to attempted murder
- Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home pleads not guilty to attempted murder
Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home pleads not guilty to attempted murder Boston Herald
- Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI
Xbox is "winding down Copilot on mobile" and "will stop development of Copilot on console," new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The move follows Sharma's reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tuesday, which added executives from Microsoft's CoreAI team - where Sharma worked before taking over Xbox - to the Xbox […]
- Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home pleads not guilty to attempted murder
Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home pleads not guilty to attempted murder Houston Chronicle
- Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home pleads not guilty to attempted murder
The man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder, attempted arson and other charges.
- Xbox CEO scraps Copilot AI for consoles to refocus the platform on gameplay-first experiences
Microsoft has canceled Xbox Copilot AI development for consoles and mobile, as CEO Asha Sharma shifts focus toward player experience and core platform improvements.
- Anthropic Just Unveiled a $1.5 Billion AI Joint Venture With Wall Street Giants — Here’s the Real Strategy Behind It
Anthropic Just Unveiled a $1.5 Billion AI Joint Venture With Wall Street Giants — Here’s the Real Strategy Behind It entrepreneur.com
- Dyna Software launches Platform Copilot, an agentic AI tool for configuring ServiceNow
Dyna Software Inc., a company that provides platform governance and health provider for ServiceNow Inc., today announced the launch of Platform Copilot, an agentic artificial intelligence tool the company describes as the first to autonomously configure, design and build on the ServiceNow platform. Platform Copilot integrates with a customer’s ServiceNow development instance and applies configuration […] The post Dyna Software launches Platform Copilot, an agentic AI tool for configuring ServiceNow appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Apple will pay $250 million for failing to deliver its AI-powered Siri on time
The proposed settlement is the result of a class action lawsuit filed in California.
- Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home pleads not guilty to attempted murder
Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home pleads not guilty to attempted murder The Boston Globe
- Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home pleads not guilty to attempted murder
Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home pleads not guilty to attempted murder San Francisco Chronicle
- Microsoft’s new Xbox chief nixes Gaming Copilot for mobile and console, shakes up leadership
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is winding down Gaming Copilot on mobile and canceling its console launch, barely a year after Microsoft debuted the AI feature. She's also overhauling the gaming unit's leadership, including new execs from her previous group, CoreAI. Read More
- Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home pleads not guilty to attempted murder
Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home pleads not guilty to attempted murder Toronto Star
- Xbox is ditching Microsoft's Copilot AI
The AI assistant is no longer coming to consoles and will be removed from the Xbox mobile app.
- Anthropic Rolls Out New Claude Financial Agents as OpenAI Rivalry Escalates
Anthropic Rolls Out New Claude Financial Agents as OpenAI Rivalry Escalates Barron's
- Your AI agent looks capable. But can it actually finish the job?
Subscribe • Previous Issues Why Your AI Agents Fail in Production (And How to Actually Test Them) In a previous post, I argued that deploying autonomous AI agents reliably is not primarily a model problem. It is an environment problem. The gap between a capable foundation model and a production-ready system is bridged by harness engineering: the Continue reading "Your AI agent looks capable. But can it actually finish the job?" The post Your AI agent looks capable. But can it actually finish the job? appeared first on Gradient Flow .
- AI Can Automate Your Close. It Cannot Fix Your Processes.
Tools scale systems, but rarely replace them.
- Everyone thinks AI is coming for people’s jobs – just not their own
Workers vulnerable to cuts should beware of the power of perception
- Xbox is overhauling its leadership team with executives from Microsoft's AI division
Four of the incoming leaders come from Microsoft's CoreAI group, while 2 veterans with 24 years each at the company are exiting
- Anthropic and OpenAI establish joint ventures on Wall Street to accelerate enterprise AI adoption
Artificial intelligence giants Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC are going after the enterprise in full force now, announcing the creation of new AI services companies in joint ventures with some of America’s biggest private equity firms. Anthropic said today it is teaming up with Blackstone Inc., Hellman & Friedman LLC and The Goldman Sachs Group […] The post Anthropic and OpenAI establish joint ventures on Wall Street to accelerate enterprise AI adoption appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Meta Is Building an AI Agent Called ‘Hatch’ and an AI Shopping Tool
Meta Is Building an AI Agent Called ‘Hatch’ and an AI Shopping Tool The Information
- AI cybersecurity threats discussed by MAS and banks
AI cybersecurity threats discussed by MAS and banks The Straits Times
- TrendAI teams up with Anthropic for AI security research
The works aims to identify exploitable software flaws, rank them by risk, and support faster mitigation.
- Labour chief outlines proposals to help workers navigate AI shift
Labour chief outlines proposals to help workers navigate AI shift The Straits Times
- With AI assist, CMS has ‘longer leash’ to fight fraud now, official says
The acting director of CMS’s Center for Program Integrity said the agency has shifted away from what was previously a “very conservative” approach in pursuing fraud. The post With AI assist, CMS has ‘longer leash’ to fight fraud now, official says appeared first on FedScoop .
- China pushes for 70% homegrown silicon wafer use as domestic firm ramps up 12-inch production — government seeking to localize critical chip supply chain amid AI boom and export restrictions
China is targeting 70% local wafer sourcing as firms like Eswin scale 12-inch production, aiming to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers and support growing AI chip demand.
- Exclusive: China targets 70% advanced domestic silicon wafer use by 2026
Exclusive: China targets 70% advanced domestic silicon wafer use by 2026 Nikkei Asia
- Harvey's CEO says AI agents are picking up more work that human lawyers used to do
Harvey's CEO says AI agents are picking up more work that human lawyers used to do Business Insider
- Anthropic, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs to create AI services company
Anthropic has partnered with investment giants Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to form a new AI services company. Read more: Anthropic, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs to create AI services company
- ElevenLabs Crosses $500 Mn ARR, Adds BlackRock, NVIDIA Among New Investors
The latest growth is driven by enterprises deploying voice-based AI agents across customer support, sales, hiring, and marketing functions.
- Nuisance no more: Korean political parties embrace AI ahead of local elections
Reform Party leader Lee Jun-seok explains about its AI campaign manager application at the National Assembly on March 9. [YONHAP] AI, once treated as a nuisance during elections because of deepfakes, is taking on a different role ahead of the June 3 local races as campaigns embrace the technology, deploying it for everything from nomination screening and campaign routes to content production. Political parties are rolling out local election strategies using AI, according to political sources on Monday. Related Article Yang Hyang-ja nominated as PPP candidate for Gyeonggi governor Former AI secretary faces backlash for handshake etiquette at Busan market while campaigning Candidates pour in with pork-barrel relocation promises prior to election Busan by-election gets feisty as top office's AI secretary throws hat into the ring The Reform Party even developed its own app, called AI Campaign Manager, which analyzes floating population data by region to suggest GPS-based campaign routes. I
- Spot deepfakes: How to avoid AI scams and protect your money
Spot deepfakes: How to avoid AI scams and protect your money
- ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower
ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows ServiceNow announced an expansion of its AI Control Tower, transforming what began last year as a governance dashboard into what the company now describes as a command center for managing AI assets across an entire enterprise, including those running outside ServiceNow's own platform.…
- Anthropic Just Passed OpenAI
Google invested $40B in Anthropic, a company competing with OpenAI.
- Deepfake fraud: How AI scams threaten Middle East businesses
Deepfake fraud: How AI scams threaten Middle East businesses
- ServiceNow bids to become the control tower for enterprise AI
ServiceNow Inc. today unveiled a broad expansion of its artificial intelligence platform, stressing governance, security and autonomous execution as foundational requirements for enterprise AI adoption. The announcements center on enhancements to the company’s AI Control Tower (pictured), a governance hub that allows organizations to monitor, manage and secure AI models and agentic workflows. The company […] The post ServiceNow bids to become the control tower for enterprise AI appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- There’s a big new AI startup in town. Meet Blitzy and its Boston investors.
There’s a big new AI startup in town. Meet Blitzy and its Boston investors. The Boston Globe
- A Reference-Free Scoring Framework for Question Answering: Evidence-Based Credibility Assessment
Evaluating question answering (QA) systems traditionally relies on human-annotated reference answers, a paradigm that faces practical limitations in real-world, dynamic applications where references are unavailable, expensive to produce, or quickly become
- ServiceNow continues its AI transformation with an integrated experience
ServiceNow has unveiled updates to its workflow management platform advancing its redefinition of itself as the “AI control tower for business reinvention” at its Knowledge customer event this week. The AI Control Tower product itself, introduced at last year’s event, gets new integrations with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and other LLM providers to extend governance and observability of enterprise infrastructure, adding to its existing links with OpenAI and Anthropic . The integrations also span applications such as SAP, Oracle, and Workday. In addition, Control Tower can now discover non-human identities and connected devices to bring OT and IoT under the same governance as AI agents and cloud services. All this ties in to the ServiceNow Action Fabric, which opens the platform to any AI agent, whether built on ServiceNow or from another source, via a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, the company said. And thanks to the recent acquisition
- Anthropic Teams With Wall Street Firms on AI Venture
The venture will embed Claude across portfolio companies amid Anthropic’s ongoing race with OpenAI in enterprise AI deployment.
- Voice AI firm ElevenLabs tops $500 million ARR; announces additional funding
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs has announced its annual recurring revenue has surpassed $500 million in early 2026. The company also secured additional funding in its Series D round, valuing it at $11 billion. This investment will fuel platform advancements and global expansion, focusing on human-like AI communication.
- Build Voice Agents in Your AI Coding Tool
Build voice agents faster with the dg CLI, MCP server, and the deepgram/skills repo. Three agentic engineering tools that make Deepgram a first-class citizen in Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, and Aider.
- Build a voice research agent with Render Workflows and AssemblyAI
Build a voice research agent with Render Workflows and AssemblyAI
- NVIDIA and ServiceNow Partner on New Autonomous AI Agents for Enterprises
Enterprise AI has learned to generate. It has learned to reason. Now companies are asking the next question: How should AI act? Early agent systems have shown what’s possible, moving beyond simple prompts to take on more complex tasks. The next step is bringing those capabilities into enterprise environments — where agents must operate with […]
- AssemblyAI Voice Agent API vs OpenAI Realtime API: Which should you use?
Compare AssemblyAI Voice Agent API and OpenAI Realtime API
- How to Build In-Vehicle AI Agents with NVIDIA: From Cloud to Car
The automotive cockpit is undergoing a fundamental shift from rule-based interfaces to agentic, multimodal AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, and...
- Anthropic ships ten AI agents for finance as both it and OpenAI chase IPO-ready revenue
Anthropic has released ten preconfigured AI agents for the financial sector that are designed to automate typical tasks performed by investment banks, asset managers and insurers. According to the announcement, the templates cover areas such as research, risk and compliance checks and financial accounting. The article Anthropic ships ten AI agents for finance as both it and OpenAI chase IPO-ready revenue appeared first on The Decoder .
- Stack AV unveils new autonomous truck after years in stealth mode
The company was founded by former Argo AI executives after that venture shut down in 2022.
- ServiceNow Is Putting Up a New Tollgate for AI Agents
ServiceNow Is Putting Up a New Tollgate for AI Agents The Information
- Facing AI, data and scale imperatives at the 2026 GEOINT Symposium
Facing AI, data and scale imperatives at the 2026 GEOINT Symposium SpaceNews