AI News Archive: May 12, 2026 — Part 14
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- Your Android phone is getting agentic powers with Gemini Intelligence - here's how and when
Gemini got a major agentic upgrade on Android, handling multi-step tasks across apps - and powering new features.
- Google just delivered its first Gemini-centric platform in Googlebook, and it may feature the first AI OS
Google is finally ready to combine Android and Chrome OS into one platform on a new line of classy Googlebooks
- Google just revealed Gemini Intelligence for Android — here are 7 ways it wants your phone to do all the work for you, so you don’t have to
Gemini Intelligence brings AI-powered automation, smarter browsing, and custom widgets directly into Android.
- Android Auto gets a massive AI-powered upgrade with YouTube, Dolby Atmos, and immersive 3D Maps
Android Auto gets a premium new look, the ability to watch videos, and better integrated Gemini
- A smarter, more proactive Android with Gemini Intelligence
Gemini Intelligence blog header showing Intelligent autofill, new devices, Rambler, Watch widgets, and more.
- Bringing the best of Gemini in Chrome to Android
Android figure next to the text "The Android Show | I/O Edition"
- Google Android Show 2026 Live Updates: New Googlebook laptops, Gemini Intelligence, Android Auto updates, and more
Google Android Show 2026 Live Updates: New Googlebook laptops, Gemini Intelligence, Android Auto updates, and more
- Google Android Show 2026: From Gemini Intelligence to Googlebook, a look at key announcements
Google Android Show 2026: From Gemini Intelligence to Googlebook, a look at key announcements
- Google Aims To Reinvent The Laptop With Gemini-First Googlebook
Googlebook Wants To Merge Android, ChromeOS And Gemini Into A Single, Seamless Experience, but with a keyboard and trackpad.
- Googlebook Is Google’s New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android
They won’t replace Chromebooks, but Googlebooks have an Android-centered operating system, AI-first features like the Magic Pointer, and a promise of desktop-grade apps.
- The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer
You’ll soon be able to generate your own widgets or ask Gemini to finish a booking in Chrome on Android.
- Google unveils Googlebook, a new line of AI-native laptops
The company says Googlebooks, which are launching this fall, are the first laptops designed from the ground up for Gemini Intelligence to offer personal and proactive help.
- Anthropic Announces Legal Practice Plug-Ins for Claude, Legal Tech Integrations
The plug-ins focus on a range of practice areas for firms, in-house counsel, law students and more. Claude also now integrates with Harvey, Free Law Project and Thomson Reuters, among others.
- Anthropic expands legal AI offerings with new Claude Cowork plugins
Anthropic launches twelve new Claude plugins for legal work covering contract law, employment law, and litigation, while connecting the chatbot to services like Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel Legal and Harvey. According to Anthropic's chief legal officer, lawyers use Claude more than almost any other profession. The article Anthropic expands legal AI offerings with new Claude Cowork plugins appeared first on The Decoder .
- Anthropic is pushing deeper into the legal industry with new AI tools for lawyers
The company launched 12 new plugins and a set of MCP connectors linking Claude to Thomson Reuters, Harvey, DocuSign, and other legal platforms
- Anthropic says its newest lawyer tools are 'like giving an engineer a legal degree'
Anthropic says its newest lawyer tools are 'like giving an engineer a legal degree' Business Insider
- Anthropic expands Claude's AI tools for law firms, lawyers
Anthropic expands Claude's AI tools for law firms, lawyers Reuters
- The AI legal services industry is heating up — Anthropic is getting in on the action
Anthropic's new tools are designed to help law firms automate specific clerical functions — things like document search and review, case law resources, deposition prep, document drafting, and other related areas.
- Google in talks to use SpaceX to launch space data centers, report says
Alphabet's Google is in talks with Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch the search company's test products for orbital data centers, according to a person familiar with the matter.
- Google is reportedly considering working with SpaceX on orbital data centers
The company has been working on the idea since the end of 2025.
- Google, SpaceX in talks to explore data centers in orbit, WSJ reports
Google is in talks with Elon Musk's SpaceX for a rocket launch deal. The search giant aims to place orbital data centers in space. Google is also discussing deals with other rocket companies. This partnership would be Musk's second with an AI rival. SpaceX is preparing for a crucial IPO. Google is researching space-based data centers under Project Suncatcher.
- Google is in talks with SpaceX to launch AI data centers into orbit
A launch deal would make the two companies partners as they prepare to compete on orbital data centers, an unproven technology SpaceX is pitching to IPO investors
- Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit
Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.
- Anthropic Warns Investors to Avoid Certain Secondary Market Sellers
Anthropic PBC identified a number of secondary marketplaces as unauthorized sellers of the company’s shares, telling investors that buying the stock won’t work.
- In a trial pitting him against Elon Musk, nobody has more to lose than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
In a trial pitting him against Elon Musk, nobody has more to lose than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Boston Herald
- OpenAI chief Sam Altman makes a high-stakes appearance in his court bout with Elon Musk
OpenAI chief Sam Altman makes a high-stakes appearance in his court bout with Elon Musk Austin American-Statesman
- Altman testifies about ‘hair-raising’ AI safety chat with Elon Musk
Altman testifies about ‘hair-raising’ AI safety chat with Elon Musk East Bay Times
- Altman testifies about ‘hair-raising’ AI safety chat with Elon Musk
Altman testifies about ‘hair-raising’ AI safety chat with Elon Musk The Mercury News
- At trial, insiders say Elon Musk never raised concerns about OpenAI becoming a for-profit
No term sheets, no promises, no objections: How the evidence is unfolding in a federal trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI.
- Sam Altman takes the stand in trial against Elon Musk
Altman follows on the heels of OpenAI’s president, Microsoft’s CEO, and others.
- Sam Altman says Elon Musk’s mind games were damaging OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did "huge damage" to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman said Musk required OpenAI president Greg Brockman and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever to rank researchers by their accomplishments and "take a chainsaw through a bunch." Altman conceded […]
- Musk warns Sam Altman will be one of America’s ‘most hated’ men as the OpenAI trial continues
In a trial featuring a clash between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman , neither of the tech titans has emerged as an overly sympathetic character. But nobody has more to lose than Altman, who is expected to take the stand this week to defend himself. Already, testimony about Altman’s turbulent tenure at the ChatGPT maker has become prime fodder for internet jokes. One piece of evidence that has inspired countless memes was a text exchange between Altman and a company officer, Mira Murati, in 2023 during his short-lived ouster as CEO, when Altman asked if things were moving “directionally good or bad” and she wrote back: “Sam this is very bad.” Musk, the world’s richest man , is seeking Altman’s second ouster from the company leadership as part of a civil lawsuit accusing him of betraying their shared vision for OpenAI. Since its start as a nonprofit funded primarily by Musk, Open AI has evolved into a capitalistic venture now valued at $852 billion. Even if Musk loses, the trial has
- Sam Altman testifies at trial that Elon Musk ‘tried to kill’ OpenAI twice
Altman is defending himself against Musk’s claims that he’s trying to enrich himself at the expense of OpenAI’s original nonprofit mission.
- In Elon Musk trial, nobody has more to lose than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
In a trial featuring a clash between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, neither of the tech titans has emerged as an overly sympathetic character
- In a trial pitting him against Elon Musk, nobody has more to lose than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
In a trial featuring a clash between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, neither of the tech titans has emerged as an overly sympathetic character
- OpenAI's Sam Altman takes the stand to fend off Elon Musk's accusations he 'stole a charity'
The trial pits two of tech's most famous personalities against each other and could lead to seismic changes for the maker of ChatGPT.
- OpenAI chief Sam Altman makes a high-stakes appearance in his court bout with Elon Musk
OpenAI chief Sam Altman makes a high-stakes appearance in his court bout with Elon Musk AP News
- In a trial pitting him against Elon Musk, nobody has more to lose than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
In a trial pitting him against Elon Musk, nobody has more to lose than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Dallas News
- OpenAI chief Sam Altman makes a high-stakes appearance in his court bout with Elon Musk
OpenAI chief Sam Altman makes a high-stakes appearance in his court bout with Elon Musk Houston Chronicle
- OpenAI chief Sam Altman makes a high-stakes appearance in his court bout with Elon Musk
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the witness stand Tuesday to defend his business record in a trial pitting him against Elon Musk, rebutting testimony that disparaged his leadership at a pivotal time for the ChatGPT maker.
- Sam Altman testifies that Elon Musk wanted control of OpenAI
Sam Altman testifies that Elon Musk wanted control of OpenAI The Boston Globe
- Detecting overfitting in Neural Networks during long-horizon grokking using Random Matrix Theory
Training Neural Networks (NNs) without overfitting is difficult; detecting that overfitting is difficult as well. We present a novel Random Matrix Theory method that detects the onset of overfitting in deep learning models without access to train or test data. For each model layer, we randomize each...
- SEMIR: Semantic Minor-Induced Representation Learning on Graphs for Visual Segmentation
Segmenting small and sparse structures in large-scale images is fundamentally constrained by voxel-level, lattice-bound computation and extreme class imbalance -- dense, full-resolution inference scales poorly and forces most pipelines to rely on fixed regionization or downsampling, coupling computa...
- Scalable Token-Level Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, but they still frequently produce hallucinations. These hallucinations are difficult to detect in reasoning-intensive tasks, where the content appears coherent but contains errors like logical flaws and unreliable intermediate r...
- Trust the Batch, On- or Off-Policy: Adaptive Policy Optimization for RL Post-Training
Reinforcement learning is structurally harder than supervised learning because the policy changes the data distribution it learns from. The resulting fragility is especially visible in large-model training, where the training and rollout systems differ in numerical precision, sampling, and other imp...
- Discrete Flow Matching for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning
Many reinforcement learning (RL) tasks have discrete action spaces, but most generative policy methods based on diffusion and flow matching are designed for continuous control. Meanwhile, generative policies usually rely heavily on offline datasets and offline-to-online RL is itself challenging, as ...
- ProfiliTable: Profiling-Driven Tabular Data Processing via Agentic Workflows
Table processing-including cleaning, transformation, augmentation, and matching-is a foundational yet error-prone stage in real-world data pipelines. While recent LLM-based approaches show promise for automating such tasks, they often struggle in practice due to ambiguous instructions, complex task ...
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Claude Code planner w/ 31 agents, 92 commands, + 121 skills
- In a trial pitting him against Elon Musk, nobody has more to lose than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
In a trial pitting him against Elon Musk, nobody has more to lose than OpenAI CEO Sam Altman San Francisco Chronicle
- Sam Altman says Elon Musk tried to ‘kill’ OpenAI, in tense courtroom showdown
Sam Altman says Elon Musk tried to ‘kill’ OpenAI, in tense courtroom showdown San Francisco Chronicle