AI News Archive: May 7, 2026 — Part 2
Sourced from 500+ daily AI sources, scored by relevance.
- ‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World
404 Media has obtained a copy of ‘Haotian AI’, a popular piece of realtime deepfake software marketed to scammers. It can turn a fraudster's face into anyone else's on WhatsApp, Zoom, and Teams.
- 'We're now ready': Peter Thiel-backed company raises $1bn to send data centers out to sea to harness 'tens of terawatts of new capacity potential' in the power of the open ocean
Peter Thiel backs Panthalassa's $140 million round to build floating AI data centers powered by ocean waves, bypassing land-based energy constraints
- AI startup targeting fraud and crime secures €2.2 million
AI startup secures funding for fraud and crime prevention
Score: 60💰 MoneyMay 7, 2026https://ioplus.nl/en/posts/ai-startup-targeting-fraud-and-crime-secures-22-million - Google’s $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19
The Gemini-powered health coach will act as a combination fitness coach, sleep expert, and health and wellness advisor.
Score: 60🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/googles-9-99-per-month-ai-health-coach-launches-may-19/ - Over 93,000 jobs cut in tech so far in 2026 as AI drives layoffs at Freshworks, Coinbase, others
Tech companies are implementing significant workforce reductions, with over 93,000 roles cut in early 2026, driven by AI and automation. Major players like Meta, Coinbase, and Freshworks are restructuring, leading to leaner teams and a shift towards efficiency.
- A Chinese court sets limits on the dismissal of a worker replaced by AI
A Hangzhou judges declares illegal the termination of the contract of an employee whose job was replaced with large language models
- Can a cough reveal lung disease? Swaasa AI uses cough sound analysis to screen respiratory disorders
AI-powered platform Swaasa is using cough sound analysis through smartphones to help screen respiratory diseases such as COPD, asthma and pneumonia. The technology aims to make lung disease detection faster, cheaper and more accessible, especially in areas with limited access to spirometry testing.
- OpenAI rolls out new model for cybersecurity teams a month after Anthropic's Mythos debut
OpenAI said GPT-5.5-Cyber, a variation of its latest AI model, is rolling out in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams.
Score: 60🤖 ModelsMay 7, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/openai-rolls-out-new-gpt-5point5-cyber-to-vetted-cybersecurity-teams.html - Apple’s $250 Million AI Settlement Is a Warning for Every CEO
The Apple AI settlement is a lesson for every leader trying to close the AI adoption gap. Follow this five-point strategy to protect your brand’s credibility.
Score: 60🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://www.inc.com/soren-kaplan/apples-250-million-ai-settlement-is-a-warning-for-every-ceo/91341888 - Available today: GPT-5.5 Instant in Microsoft 365 Copilot
The post Available today: GPT-5.5 Instant in Microsoft 365 Copilot appeared first on Source .
- UAE to build chiplet facility for defence, AI and aerospace systems
UAE to build chiplet facility for defence, AI and aerospace systems Gulf News
- Kohort Closes $7 Million Series A Led by The Raine Group, Launching Full Suite of UA Agents
Kohort today announced the completion of its $7 million Series A fundraising round to build user acquisition (UA) agents for mobile game studios. The round is led by The Raine Group, who invested in Kohort’s seed round. UA Agents: Context engineering meets signal engineering Kohort’s thesis is that in a world where every AI company [...]
- IBM is modeling the universe with quantum computing
At Think 2026, IBM Research leadership emphasized that useful quantum computing is already here.
- Anthropic CEO says 80-fold growth in first quarter explains 'difficulties with compute'
At Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco, CEO Dario Amodei said the company is 'working as quickly as possible' to provide additional compute.
Score: 60🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-says-company-crew-80-fold-in-first-quarter.html - ServiceNow brings Autonomous Workforce to every major business function
Today, at ServiceNow’s annual customer and partner event, Knowledge 2026, ServiceNow the AI control tower for business reinvention, announced a major expansion of its Autonomous Workforce, launching new AI specialists for IT, customer relationship management (CRM), employee service teams, and security and risk. Together with the previously announced L1 IT Service Desk AI Specialist, which is now available, […] The post ServiceNow brings Autonomous Workforce to every major business function appeared first on CXOToday.com .
- Pentagon will ‘never again’ rely on a single AI provider, official says
Emil Michael, defense undersecretary for research and engineering, said new agreements with Big Tech companies are a “counterstatement” to the ongoing Anthropic-Pentagon conflict as the agency prioritizes flexible contracts.
- AgriFood Signals: Corteva names seed spinout, Vori bags $22m for AI grocery, FMC sells India biz
Plus: Pepsi's renewable energy deal in Europe. The post AgriFood Signals: Corteva names seed spinout, Vori bags $22m for AI grocery, FMC sells India biz appeared first on AgFunderNews .
- 'Like a microscopic Predator': Chinese scientists create tiny robotic vacuum to hunt radioactive pollution and clean the world's oceans
Chinese scientists created light-driven micromotors that actively capture uranium from water, offering a new approach to resource extraction challenges.
- Google AI mode labels some Reddit and social media posts as ‘Expert Advice’
Google has a few new updates for AI Overviews, including a feature that sources perspectives from social media and online communities.
Score: 59🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://mashable.com/article/google-ai-overviews-updates-social-media-forums-expert-advice - QumulusAI Secures $26M Multi-Year Lease Financing for 50-Node NVIDIA B200 GPU Cluster
QumulusAI Secures $26M Multi-Year Lease Financing for 50-Node NVIDIA B200 GPU Cluster USA Today
- Former Twin Cities school staffer pleads guilty to using AI to create child pornography
William Haslach previously worked at North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale and Stillwater school districts.
- AI risk warning: Banks must prepare for cyber threats from advanced models like Mythos, says DFS Secretary Nagaraju
AI risk warning: Banks must prepare for cyber threats from advanced models like Mythos, says DFS Secretary Nagaraju
- ‘No one has done this in the wild’: study observes AI replicate itself
World is approaching point where no one can shut down a rogue AI, says director of body behind research It’s the stuff of science fiction cinema, or particularly breathless AI company blogposts: new research finds recent AI systems can independently copy themselves on to other computers. In the doom scenario, this means that when the superintelligent AI goes rogue, it will escape shutdown by seeding itself across the world wide web, lurking outside the reach of frantic IT professionals and continuing to plot world domination or paving over the world with solar panels . Continue reading...
- Scaling Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber
OpenAI expands Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber, helping verified defenders accelerate vulnerability research and protect critical infrastructure.
- It took 4 years to master ‘The Knowledge.’ AI just collapsed it in a software update
In London, becoming a licensed cab driver used to require passing an exam called “The Knowledge.” Candidates spent three to four years memorizing 25,000 streets, 100,000 landmarks and thousands of optimal routes. Neuroscience researchers at University College London found that cabbies who passed had measurably enlarged hippocampi from the cognitive load. GPS made the entire achievement irrelevant in a single software update. Not gradually. Not partially. A driver on their first day with a nav app could match a cabbie who had studied for four years. The skill did not get cheaper. It stopped mattering. That same structural collapse just happened to cyberattack expertise. The skill floor fell through the floor For two decades, the most dangerous attack techniques were gated by skill and time. Adversary-in-the-middle phishing, polymorphic malware, living-off-the-land scripting, autonomous exploit development — nation-state groups ran these operations because they alone had practitioners wh
- AI data center boom squeezes consumer tech’s chip supply—even though they use different chips
The boom in data center construction is taking up much of the supply of high-tech components, especially processor and memory chips. This demand is squeezing consumer device makers, which are having trouble acquiring enough chips . This is happening even though data center servers and smartphones use different types of chips . The key distinction between consumer electronics and data centers is what they need chips to be optimized for. Smartphones and PCs require low power use, thermal efficiency, and tight integration. Data centers that run AI systems such as large language models, or LLMs, require maximum compute power, memory bandwidth, and storage throughput. To meet these needs, consumer devices tend to rely on systems-on-a-chip—chips that combine processing and storage—with dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, and NAND, a type of nonvolatile memory. In contrast, AI servers rely on graphics processing units, or GPUs, or other accelerator processors combined with high-bandwidth m
- White House Prepares Order to Boost AI Security, Says Economic Advisor
The White House is looking into an executive order that would create a vetting system for new artificial intelligence models like Anthropic PBC’s Mythos in a bid to protect business and government networks from AI-related cyber risks, a top economic …
- 'Advisory AI has run its course': ServiceNow wants agents working in every corner of your business
'Advisory AI has run its course': ServiceNow wants agents working in every corner of your business IT Pro
- CEOs Say AI Gives Them Only Two Options, and Both Are Bad News for Employees
Work harder, or don't work at all. The post CEOs Say AI Gives Them Only Two Options, and Both Are Bad News for Employees appeared first on Futurism .
- Japan's MUFG taps Google's Gemini AI to help customers shop, save
Japan's MUFG taps Google's Gemini AI to help customers shop, save Nikkei Asia
- Mark Stevens just donated $200 million to USC to help with the AI race
Mark Stevens just donated $200 million to USC to help with the AI race Fortune
Score: 58💰 MoneyMay 7, 2026https://fortune.com/2026/05/07/mark-stevens-usc-200-million-ai-donation-nvidia-sequoia/ - Allen Institute for AI launches big computing cluster for $152M project backed by Nvidia and NSF
Ai2 says it has started using a new Nvidia-powered computing system funded through a $152 million NSF and Nvidia project to build open AI models for scientific research. The milestone comes as the Seattle nonprofit works to regain its footing after losing key researchers to Microsoft. Read More
Score: 58🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://www.geekwire.com/2026/allen-institute-for-ai-brings-152m-federally-backed-computing-project-online/ - UAE’s G42 secures major US AI data centre deal in Minneapolis
UAE’s G42 secures major US AI data centre deal in Minneapolis Arabian Business
Score: 57🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://www.arabianbusiness.com/business/technology/uaes-g42-secures-major-us-ai-data-centre-deal - World's First AI-Driven Cyberattack Couldn't Breach OT Systems
The most sophisticated AI-integrated campaign to date hit a brick wall in the form of a SCADA login screen.
Score: 57🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/worlds-first-ai-driven-cyberattack-couldnt-breach-ot-systems - Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’
Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips
Score: 57🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/05/07/datacenter-to-become-arms-biggest-business-soon/5231612 - Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Testifies Sam Altman Lied About AI Safety Reviews
Ex-OpenAI CTO testifies about AI safety reviews and Sam Altman's claims
Score: 57🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://opentools.ai/news/ex-openai-cto-mira-murati-testifies-sam-altman-lied-ai-safety - AI threatens India's software exporters and the middle class it built
AI threatens India's software exporters and the middle class it built Nikkei Asia
- Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster
The week leading up to Thanksgiving 2023 was the AI industry's biggest soap opera moment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was abruptly ousted from his role at the ChatGPT maker. The explanation? That Altman was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board." Now, via witness testimony and trial exhibits in Musk v. Altman, the […]
Score: 57🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/926383/mira-murati-sam-altman-musk-trial-ouster - Apple’s Camera-Equipped AirPods Reach Late Testing in AI Device Push
Apple Inc. has reached the late stages of development for new AirPods with built-in cameras, a significant milestone for what will likely be its first wearable device designed for the artificial intelligence era.
- Tech billionaires resist rules for their risky AI business
Elon Musk is a prime example of the problem with the people who are creating the daunting new world of artificial intelligence. Early on in the development of AI, Musk warned about the extreme dangers of creating a super intelligent entity that, once it achieves powers beyond the capabilities and control of humans, could do […]
- AI is as a top cause of layoffs, accounting for 26% of April's job cuts
New data shows artificial intelligence is the most cited reason for layoffs, even as economists debate whether it is truly displacing workers.
Score: 57🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-layoffs-job-cuts-challenger-report-april-2026/ - GIC backs new Anthropic-linked AI deployment firm for enterprises
GIC backs new Anthropic-linked AI deployment firm for enterprises DealStreetAsia
Score: 56🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/gic-anthropic-linked-ai-deployment-firm-481510 - Using diesel generators to power the AI revolution would kill hundreds of Americans a year
With U.S. electricity demand starting to rise quickly and expected to continue rising, largely because of the power needed for data centers that process artificial intelligence, people are looking for almost any potential solution.
Score: 56🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-diesel-generators-power-ai-revolution.html - Fraudulent citations, blamed on AI hallucinations, are becoming more common in research papers
“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study found
- Japan to protect celebrity voices against unauthorized AI use
Japan to protect celebrity voices against unauthorized AI use The Japan Times Alpha Online
- Under Threat of Perjury, OpenAI’s Former CTO Is Admitting Some Very Interesting Stuff About Sam Altman
"Did you perceive Altman was not candid with you? Truthful? Honest?" The post Under Threat of Perjury, OpenAI’s Former CTO Is Admitting Some Very Interesting Stuff About Sam Altman appeared first on Futurism .
Score: 56🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/perjury-openai-cto-murati-altman - Britain thought AI-powered ‘robot fighter jets’ were years away. The Royal Air Force chief says the future is already here.
Britain thought AI-powered ‘robot fighter jets’ were years away. The Royal Air Force chief says the future is already here. Business Insider
Score: 56🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/uk-raf-chief-ai-robot-fighter-jets-coming-soon-2026-5 - Chrome Is Quietly Downloading a 4GB AI Model Without Your Permission
Chrome Is Quietly Downloading a 4GB AI Model Without Your Permission PCMag
Score: 56🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://www.pcmag.com/news/chrome-is-quietly-downloading-4gb-ai-model-without-your-permission - Achieving Peak System and Workload Efficiency on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 with Slurm Block Scheduling
NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 introduces a fundamentally new way to build GPU clusters by extending NVIDIA NVLink coherence across an entire rack. This design enables...
- Is the Dead Internet Theory Coming True? New Stanford Research Calculates Exactly How Far We Are—and It’s Alarming
More than a third of websites published now are at least partially AI-generated, says the study.
Score: 56🌐 MovesMay 7, 2026https://www.inc.com/fast-company-2/dead-internet-theory-stanford-research-calculation/91341758