AI News Archive: May 5, 2026 — Part 26
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- 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
- Google Gemini is coming to more cars, but some consumers aren’t cheering
Google Gemini is rolling out to millions of cars, but some owners are concerned about data privacy.
- Exclusive: China targets 70% advanced domestic silicon wafer use by 2026
Exclusive: China targets 70% advanced domestic silicon wafer use by 2026 Nikkei Asia
- 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.
- The AI Correction Will Not Be Evenly Distributed
When the numbers coming out of the biggest AI companies get reported, the coverage is almost always the same: revenue up, growth accelerating, the boom is real. What almost nobody asks is what kind of revenue it is. In AI right now, that question is being skipped entirely. It's the only one that matters. Any investor who has sat across from a founder in a pitch meeting knows that headline revenue is just the starting point. The real questions come after: Is this B2B or B2C? Is it contracted or casual? Does the use case suggest land-and-expand potential, or is this customer already at their ceiling? Is the product embedded in something the customer cannot easily stop doing, or is it a nice-to-have competing with shrinking budgets and fading attention? These questions are table stakes at the startup level. They have almost completely vanished from the conversation about the companies now defining the AI landscape. Take Anthropic and OpenAI . By most coverage, OpenAI is the dominant playe
- Labour chief outlines proposals to help workers navigate AI shift
Labour chief outlines proposals to help workers navigate AI shift The Straits Times
- Ai2 releases MolmoAct 2, enhancing robot intelligence in the real world
Seattle-based artificial intelligence research institute Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI, today announced its next-generation open-source foundation artificial intelligence models, aimed at enabling robots to operate in the real world, with MolmoAct 2. Last August, the company released its first iteration, MolmoAct, the company’s first action reasoning model, a new class of AI models that allows machines to reason about 3D environments […] The post Ai2 releases MolmoAct 2, enhancing robot intelligence in the real world appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- AI cybersecurity threats discussed by MAS and banks
AI cybersecurity threats discussed by MAS and banks The Straits Times
- Motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, and AI risk theory
Of the fifty-odd biases discovered by Kahneman, Tversky, and their successors, forty-nine are cute quirks, and one is destroying civilization. This last one is confirmation bias. - From Scott Alexander's review of Julia Galef's The Scout Mindset . Alexander goes on to argue that this bias is the source of polarization in society, which is distorting our beliefs and setting us at each other's throats. How could someone believe such different things unless they're either really stupid or lying to conceal their selfishness? I think smart people who care about the truth go on believing conflicting things largely because of confirmation bias and motivated reasoning. The corner of civilization I'm most worried about is the one figuring out how to handle the advent of strong AI. I think confirmation bias makes us each a little to a lot overconfident in our beliefs about alignment and AI impacts, and that's pretty bad for collectively finding the truth. I think the effects of biases are still
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- Everyone thinks AI is coming for people’s jobs – just not their own
Workers vulnerable to cuts should beware of the power of perception
- AI Can Automate Your Close. It Cannot Fix Your Processes.
Tools scale systems, but rarely replace them.
- 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 .
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.
- 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
Man accused of attacking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home pleads not guilty to attempted murder Boston Herald
- 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
- Crypto exchange Coinbase to cut 700 jobs in AI-driven restructuring
Crypto exchange Coinbase to cut 700 jobs in AI-driven restructuring The Straits Times
- Italy’s Meloni denounces deepfake photo as a political attack
Italy’s Meloni denounces deepfake photo as a political attack Toronto Star
- Italy’s Meloni denounces deepfake photo as a political attack
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has denounced the circulation of a deepfake photo of her posing in bed, wearing lingerie.
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang says China should not have its most advanced chips
Nvidia's Jensen Huang says China should not have its most advanced chips Nikkei Asia
- Explained: Why Dubai targets future with Agentic AI shift
Explained: Why Dubai targets future with Agentic AI shift Gulf News
- What an AI-designed car looks like
On The Vergecast: driving an LLM, Claude Code vs. Codex, RIP AGI, and more.
- AI Begins to Take Hold in Aviation Through Aircraft Transactions
AI Begins to Take Hold in Aviation Through Aircraft Transactions azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- AI-driven FinBursa looks to be Gulf's matchmaker of start-ups and capital
AI-driven FinBursa looks to be Gulf's matchmaker of start-ups and capital The National
- How I Learned To Trust AI as a Physical Therapist
How I Learned To Trust AI as a Physical Therapist MedCity News
- Best price alert: The Eufy E25 robot vacuum and mop just dipped to a record-low at Amazon
The Eufy E25 robot vacuum and mop is on sale at Amazon for $599.98, down from the list price of $1,299.99. That's a 54% discount.
- Snag the powerful Dreame X60 Max Ultra Complete robot vacuum for its lowest price ever
As of May 5, get the Dreame X60 Max Ultra Complete robot vacuum for its lowest price ever.
- The DJI Neo is down to its best-ever price at Amazon — save $60 right now
Find the best DJI drone deal. Save 30% on the DJI Neo.
- ChatGPT's Latest Model Will Supposedly Give Less Annoying Answers
OpenAI says GPT-5.5 Instant will cut down on "gratuitous emojis."
- ChatGPT’s new default model is half as likely to mislead you on medical and financial questions
OpenAI has replaced GPT-5.3 Instant with GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's default model, promising 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims on medical, legal, and financial questions.
- ChatGPT’s default model is now more direct, more clear, and less wrong about things
GPT-5.5 Instant cuts hallucinations and long-winded replies.
- ChatGPT Is Smarter, More Accurate, and Less Obsessed With Emojis After Upgrade
ChatGPT's default model has been updated to GPT-5.5 Instant , a model that brings accuracy improvements with fewer hallucinations, especially in areas like medicine, law, and finance, according to OpenAI. GPT-5.5 Instant is more capable at tasks like analyzing images, answering STEM questions, and choosing when to use web search to provide a better answer. Responses can also be personalized because GPT-5.5 Instant can better draw context from past chats, files, and Gmail, but this is currently limited to paid subscribers. OpenAI says that responses are "tighter and more to-the-point without losing substance" and without eliminating ChatGPT's personality. It will provide the same information, but without unnecessary formatting, emojis, and follow-up questions. All ChatGPT models are being updated with memory sources, which will show users the past chats, files, and other context that ChatGPT used to generate a response. GPT-5.5 Instant is rolling out today to all ChatGPT users, and it i
- OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less
OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has "significant improvements in factuality across the board." The company claims that, based on "internal evaluations," GPT-5.5 Instant produced "52.5% fewer hallucinated claims" than its […]
- ChatGPT's new default model is more factual and better at personalization
OpenAI is deploying GPT-5.5 Instant to all users starting today.
- How Groundup AI redefines what smart factories expect from their machines
Groundup AI, the Singapore-born startup that pioneered what it describes as the world’s first Agentic AI for Cognitive Maintenance, has closed its most significant commercial agreement to date. The contract, valued at more than US$10 million, involves the large-scale deployment of the company’s flagship platform across multi-site critical operations for one of the world’s leading […] The post How Groundup AI redefines what smart factories expect from their machines appeared first on e27 .
- ‘Panthalassa has opened the ocean frontier’: Thiel-backed startup secures $140 million to deploy floating AI data centers
‘Panthalassa has opened the ocean frontier’: Thiel-backed startup secures $140 million to deploy floating AI data centers IT Pro
- AI becoming part of the race for Formula One and its teams
AI becoming part of the race for Formula One and its teams The Japan Times
- Best AI tools for software engineers: how to build the right AI stack
Discover the best AI tools for software engineers and how to build a secure AI stack
- How to Edit Videos With AI: Examples, Tools, and Best Practices
Removing an object or changing the background in a video might look trivial, but it’s actually a very difficult task. These changes typically require complex masking and frame-by-frame refining. Because of this demanding process, creatives are often forced to sacrifice either their specific visual v
- WSO2 launches Agent Manager to help enterprises tame AI agent sprawl
Open-source technology provider WS02 LLC today announced the launch of WSO2 Agent Manager, an open control plane for artificial intelligence agents that gives enterprises a unified way to identify, govern, secure and scale agents across environments. The new offering helps organizations move from AI experimentation to production by addressing a critical gap: bringing visibility, control and accountability […] The post WSO2 launches Agent Manager to help enterprises tame AI agent sprawl appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- AI power users are pulling away from everyone else, Microsoft says
Artificial intelligence is helping knowledge workers do things that weren’t previously possible, according to a new report from Microsoft . In the company’s 2026 Work Trend Index report, which includes results from a survey of 20,000 knowledge workers who use AI at work, 66% of the AI users surveyed say that AI allows them to spend more time on high-value work, and 58% reveal that they’re producing work they couldn’t have produced just one year ago. That number rises to 80% among a category of AI power users Microsoft dubs “frontier professionals.” “Instead of just automating away what people used to do, and that’s an efficiency gain, what we’re seeing is much more exciting,” says Katy George, corporate vice president of workforce transformation at Microsoft. “What we’re calling ‘capability add.’” Examples range from new uses of AI to find and address software security vulnerabilities , to salespeople being able to quickly get up to speed before a customer meeting to an extent previous
- Mark Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers allege
Mark Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers allege San Francisco Chronicle
- Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta’s copyright infringement, publishers allege
Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement.
- Mark Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers allege
Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement
- Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta’s copyright infringement, publishers allege
Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta’s copyright infringement, publishers allege Boston Herald
- Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta AI copyright infringement, major publishers allege in new lawsuit
Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement