AI News Archive: May 16, 2026 — Part 1
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- One in seven Brits swapped their GP for ChatGPT, study finds
Patients are using chatbots for medical advice, while the NHS is still debating where AI belongs
Score: 89🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/16/one-in-seven-brits-swapped-their-gp-for-chatgpt-study-finds/5240514 - You can now connect bank accounts, track spending and ask personal finance questions to ChatGPT
OpenAI has introduced a Personal Finance feature in ChatGPT which allows users to link their financial accounts and analyze spending habits.
- MPs demand AI ‘kill switch’ to defend against ‘catastrophe’
MPs demand AI ‘kill switch’ to defend against ‘catastrophe’ The Telegraph
Score: 87🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/05/16/mps-demand-ai-kill-switch-to-protect-british-lives/ - Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnecessary Dental Work, According to an Explosive Investigation
"It's happening almost everywhere." The post Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnecessary Dental Work, According to an Explosive Investigation appeared first on Futurism .
Score: 86🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://futurism.com/health-medicine/dentists-ai-unnecessary-dental-work - Pope creates artificial intelligence study group as Vatican prepares to release his first encyclical
Pope creates artificial intelligence study group as Vatican prepares to release his first encyclical Toronto Star
- OpenAI and Malta partner to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
OpenAI and Malta partner to expand AI access, offering ChatGPT Plus and training to help citizens build practical AI skills and use AI responsibly.
- New benchmark shows Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5 can develop real browser exploits autonomously
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University built a new benchmark that measures how far AI agents can go when exploiting real vulnerabilities in Google's V8 engine. Mythos leads GPT-5.5 by a wide margin but costs twelve times as much. The article New benchmark shows Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5 can develop real browser exploits autonomously appeared first on The Decoder .
- He Spent 23 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit—Then AI Set Him Free
One case reveals how technology is reshaping justice, and why access to better tools can mean the difference between freedom and decades behind bars.
- OpenAI Bought Company That Offered A.I. Tools for Cloning Voices
The acquisition, Weights.gg, was a sort of social network for creating and sharing artificial intelligence algorithms.
Score: 79🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/technology/openai-weightsgg-voice-cloning.html - Stripe's John Collison on How Agentic Commerce Will Reshape the Internet | Odd Lots
The internet is made for shopping. For years, the main inputs for e-commerce transactions involved targeted ads, algorithmic recommendations, SEO, and lots of mindless scrolling. But agentic commerce might represent a sea change for e-commerce: With the rise of AI agents doing shopping on behalf of consumers, how are retailers going to adapt? John Collison, co-founder of the financial services and payment processing company Stripe, has first hand experience with all the ways e-commerce has changed in the last decade, and he thinks agentic commerce is going to completely transform the online shopping experience. We speak to Collison today about how AI has already changed the way consumers make purchasing decisions, why key word search is a "ridiculous" way to find things to buy, what it means when brands will have to appeal to AI agents as opposed to human buyers, and if AI agents can truly mimic human taste. (Source: Bloomberg)
Score: 75🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-05-16/how-agentic-commerce-will-reshape-the-internet-video - YouTube opens its deepfake face-swap detection tool to all adult creators
YouTube is opening its Likeness Detection tool to all creators 18 and older. The system spots AI-generated face fakes in other users' videos and lets creators file removal requests directly through YouTube Studio. Until now, the feature was limited to partner program members; now it's meant to protect smaller channels too. The article YouTube opens its deepfake face-swap detection tool to all adult creators appeared first on The Decoder .
Score: 73🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://the-decoder.com/youtube-opens-its-deepfake-face-swap-detection-tool-to-all-adult-creators/ - Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said his company will likely spend $300M on Anthropic tokens
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said his company will likely spend $300M on Anthropic tokens Business Insider
Score: 72💰 MoneyMay 16, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-benioff-salesforce-anthropic-spend-tokens-slack-2026-5 - AI data centers trigger massive 'irreversible' 76% electricity price spike in largest US region — federal watchdog demands tech giants pay for their own power infrastructure
Industry watchdog Monitoring Analytics says that PJM Interconnection is not doing enough to prevent power prices from spiking due to massive data center demand.
- Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients
"All AI scribe systems from the 20 approved vendors showed one or more inaccuracies at the procurement testing phase." The post Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients appeared first on Futurism .
Score: 68🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-scribe-hallucinating-medical-issues - As Ukraine takes the lead in robot in combat, India deploys them on LoC
Ukraine is at the forefront of a military upheaval, unleashing a fleet of Unmanned Ground Vehicles, such as cutting-edge combat cyborgs and self-destructing attack machines, which are key to keeping troops safe on the front lines. By assigning perilous missions to these tenacious robots, soldiers can concentrate on more aggressive tactics.
- Volvo Autonomous Solutions, DSV launch autonomous freight operations in Texas
Volvo Autonomous Solutions and DSV have started autonomous freight operations between Dallas and Houston. Volvo Autonomous Solutions, or VAS, is deploying its Autona/freight solution for DSV. The Autona/freight platform combines the Volvo VNL Autonomous truck with self-driving technology from partners Aurora and Waabi. The operations run between Aurora’s terminals in Dallas and Houston and integrate […] The post Volvo Autonomous Solutions, DSV launch autonomous freight operations in Texas appeared first on FreightWaves .
Score: 64🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://www.freightwaves.com/news/volvo-dsv-autonomous-freight-dallas-houston - Tesla Full Self Driving (Supervised) Now Permitted in Belgium
Following Tesla Full Self Driving (Supervised) approval and deployment in the Netherlands, the driver-assist software is now permitted to use in Belgium, sort of. For now, one Tesla car is allowed to test the technology in Flanders, the northern region of Belgium. Of course, if all goes well, Full Self ... [continued] The post Tesla Full Self Driving (Supervised) Now Permitted in Belgium appeared first on CleanTechnica .
Score: 63🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://cleantechnica.com/2026/05/15/tesla-full-self-driving-supervised-now-permitted-in-belgium/ - The end of deepfakes: A UK startup “fingerprinting” light to prove what’s real could crush global misinformation and $75 billion video piracy market
This UK startup wants to make your physical filming location a ‘fingerprint’ to verify authenticity, rather than relying on software.
- I've been studying Big Tech for a long time. What just happened with Anthropic and the Pentagon terrifies me
I've been studying Big Tech for a long time. What just happened with Anthropic and the Pentagon terrifies me Fortune
Score: 61🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://fortune.com/2026/05/16/ftc-anthropic-pentagon-ai-regulation-federal-trade-commission/ - NVIDIA Introduces SANA-WM: A 2.6B-Parameter Open-Source World Model That Generates Minute-Scale 720p Video on a Single GPU
NVIDIA Introduces SANA-WM: A 2.6B-Parameter Open-Source World Model That Generates Minute-Scale 720p Video on a Single GPU MarkTechPost
- Abu Dhabi-developed cryptographic AI goes global after US acquisition
The technology allows enables organisations to use AI on sensitive data securely rather than limiting the work to laboratory testing
Score: 59🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://www.khaleejtimes.com/business/tech/abu-dhabi-ai-privacy-tech-global-us-acquisition - New Army vehicles under French deal can automatically target perceived threats using AI
According to experts, these systems can also be configured to fire automatically without human input
- What are AI tarpits? Understanding the tools people are using to poison LLMs
In order for a chatbot to become more intelligent, and thus more useful to the end-user, it needs to assimilate data continuously. This process is known as “training.” The problem is that many AI companies never explicitly ask for consent from data owners before scraping their webpages and adding the data to the corpora of the large language models (LLMs) that power AI chatbots. But some of those data owners, also known as content creators or IP holders, are now fighting back. They are doing this by using tools known as “tarpits.” Their aim? To poison the chatbot’s underlying LLM and thus degrade the quality of its outputs, potentially causing end-user flight. Here’s what you need to know. What is AI poisoning? AI poisoning is the process of corrupting an AI chatbot’s underlying large language model so that the chatbot gives incorrect, misleading, or utterly bonkers outputs. This corruption is achieved by tricking the LLM into assimilating incorrect data during its training, which ofte
- Google's new Gemini Intelligence's ‘advanced’ spec requirements may even exclude older Pixel and Samsung flagships
The lack of an official compatibility list for Gemini Intelligence has raised concerns over which devices will support the new AI features. A new developer page has suggested even older Google and Samsung flagships may not get the AI features
- Meta launches WhatsApp ‘incognito’ mode to address privacy concerns for AI chats
Meta launches WhatsApp ‘incognito’ mode to address privacy concerns for AI chats AP News
Score: 58🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://apnews.com/article/whatsapp-meta-ai-chatbot-privacy-9a5f7565c969cbf04cf150dfc318cfae - How AI data centres risk straining Switzerland’s water resources
Artificial intelligence (AI) and geopolitical tensions are accelerating the construction of data centres in Switzerland, increasing demand for infrastructure that could strain the country’s water supply. Switzerland is often described as the “water tower of Europe”: a country with abundant lakes and glaciers, where some of the continent’s major rivers originate. But this abundance may be put to the test by the rapid expansion of data centres – the IT infrastructure that keeps the digital world running. Today, Switzerland hosts around 120 data centres, with about 20 more under construction, giving it one of the world’s highest concentrations of data centres per capita. The growing adoption of artificial intelligence is accelerating this expansion. High-performance servers used for AI consume more energy and generate more heat, increasing the need for intensive cooling systems – many of which rely on water. “More and more companies – and people in general – are using AI. So cooling ...
- Anthropic's Claude writes 90% of code: CFO Krishna Rao reveals productivity gains
Anthropic's CFO, Krishna Rao, revealed that over 90% of the company's code is now generated by its AI tool, Claude Code. AI systems are automating significant portions of software engineering, finance, and operations, freeing employees for oversight and strategy. Despite automation, Anthropic is accelerating hiring, viewing AI as a productivity enhancer that amplifies talent.
- AI investment ‘advice’ is 50% more likely to pump you up — and trip you into costly blunders
AI fuels impulsive actions — a human ‘defense coach’ is your best bet to win the market’s ‘loser’s game.’
- First Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI, gives root access on MacOS — Claude Mythos helps security researchers bypass Memory Integrity Enforcement
Apple M5 architecture gets its first privilege escalation exploit
- Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI
Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI Fortune
Score: 57🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://fortune.com/article/why-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman-predicts-ai-automation-18-months/ - xAI launches Grok Build coding agent to compete in AI developer tools
The coding agent, currently in early testing and available only to paying subscribers, can carry out complex coding tasks based on user instructions, according to a post on xAI’s website. The launch marks the company’s first move into professional coding tools, a fast-growing area of the AI market.
- Why UAE President Gifted Cerebras AI Superchip To PM Narendra Modi
Right after hosting a high-profile conclave of the foreign ministers of BRICS nations in New Delhi on Thursday (May 14),…
Score: 56🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://inc42.com/buzz/why-uae-president-gifted-cerebras-ai-superchip-to-pm-narendra-modi/ - AI data centers require 36 times more fiber than designs with standard servers — severe glass shortages push cable lead times out to a full year
Major Chinese optical fiber manufacturers have booked orders stretching into 2027, as AI data center construction drives demand growth that the supply chain can't match.
- Influencers say their races are being swapped out by A.I. on social media
One influencer says her race was changed on social media by A.I. and she's not alone. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz explains.
- Microsoft loses senior scientist Li Hongzhi to China's Tongji University amid 89% drop in AI talent to US
Li Hongzhi, former head of generative AI at Microsoft AI Asia, has joined Tongji University in Shanghai as a distinguished tenured professor, according to the university.
- ‘Spatial intelligence shouldn’t require a GPU': This tiny chip could turn skinny Aviators into smart glasses without a bulky battery - and they'll even understand the world in real-time
Mosaic reveals new perception chip that gives smart glasses real-time environmental awareness and more.
- Texas county passes data center ban for rural areas for a year, move comes in wake of AI data centers moving to remote areas to skirt regulations — state senator says counties cannot legally impose these bans
Hill County passed a one-year ban on data center projects, as the country authorities study the effects their effects on the community. Still, the County Attorney warned that they could get sued if they pass this moratorium, with a Texas State Senator asking the State Attorney General to investigate counties that have done so.
- Texas county passes 1-year data center construction ban
The moratorium applies to unincorporated parts of Hill County, a rural area facing eight potential data center developments.
Score: 54🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/16/texas-county-data-center-construction-ban-00922493 - For $1.3 million a month, OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger runs 100 AI agents that code, review PRs, and find bugs
A three-person team led by Peter Steinberger keeps about 100 Codex instances running for the open-source project OpenClaw, driving OpenAI API spend to $1.3 million a month. Steinberger frames the bill as a research investment: he wants to see what software development looks like when token costs don't matter. The article For $1.3 million a month, OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger runs 100 AI agents that code, review PRs, and find bugs appeared first on The Decoder .
- Atlanta residents report Waymo traffic jams
Atlanta residents say they're waking up to traffic jams of self-driving Waymo vehicles confused by neighborhood signage.
Score: 53🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://www.cbsnews.com/video/atlanta-residents-report-waymo-traffic-jams/ - Dubai self-driving taxis now available in Jumeirah and Umm Suqeim
Dubai self-driving taxis now available in Jumeirah and Umm Suqeim Arabian Business
- AI Data Centers Are Wasting Power Moving Data. I Built a Chip That Stops It.
No compiler. No runtime. Weights loaded once. Continue reading on Towards AI »
- Robots in the military: how the Defence Forces is using AI to cover shortfalls in resources and personnel
Technology is being deployed by Irish military to detect threats to key underwater cables and monitor Russian ‘shadow-fleet’ vessels
- The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants us to know it's taking this very seriously.
- More AI data centers are coming to South Florida. Could one open near you?
More AI data centers are coming to South Florida. Could one open near you? Miami Herald
Score: 52🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article315560025.html - Researchers train AI model that hits near-full performance with just 12.5 percent of its experts
Researchers at the Allen Institute for AI and UC Berkeley have built EMO, a mixture-of-experts model whose experts specialize in content domains instead of word types. That lets you strip out three-quarters of the experts while losing only about one percentage point of performance, a step that could make MoE models practical for memory-constrained settings for the first time. The article Researchers train AI model that hits near-full performance with just 12.5 percent of its experts appeared first on The Decoder .
- Apache helicopter's 'loyal wingmen' support drones to be used for precision strikes, other duties — British Army's Project NYX funding money goes to four firms as effort hits new milestone
UK Ministry of Defence shortlists four firms to develop 'loyal wingmen' autonomous drones for British Army Apache helicopters.
- A Gemini-Fueled Fitbit Could Be the Muscle That Google's Smart Glasses Need
Commentary: Trying out Google's new Gemini-powered Fitbit makes me wonder if this is the killer companion for Google's upcoming glasses. I bet it will be.
Score: 51🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/a-gemini-fueled-fitbit-could-be-the-muscle-that-googles-smart-glasses-need/ - Optical tech is the next theme dominating the AI trade. Here's what you need to know.
Optical tech is the next theme dominating the AI trade. Here's what you need to know. Business Insider
Score: 50🌐 MovesMay 16, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/optics-stocks-memory-chips-ai-trade-lite-cien-glw-cohr-2026-5 - The most-cited computer scientist alive says AI could make humanity extinct within a decade
Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist widely regarded as one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, has renewed his warning that hyperintelligent machines could pose an existential threat to humanity within the next decade. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal originally published in October 2025 and republished by Fortune this week, Bengio argued that AI […] This story continues at The Next Web