AI News Archive: May 16, 2026 — Part 7
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- Salesforce expects to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, and Benioff wants coding inside Slack next
Marc Benioff expects Salesforce to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, almost entirely on coding. The Salesforce CEO made the projection on the All-In podcast published on Friday, calling AI coding agents “awesome” and Anthropic “awesome” in the same breath, before adding that the spending would make everything at Salesforce cheaper to build. […] This story continues at The Next Web
- OpenAI bought a voice cloning startup famous for celebrity imitations
OpenAI has acquired Weights.gg, a small startup that let users create and share AI voice clones of celebrities like Taylor Swift and Donald Trump. The team of around six now works at OpenAI, but the company doesn't plan to release a standalone cloning product. The article OpenAI bought a voice cloning startup famous for celebrity imitations appeared first on The Decoder .
- What is Weights.gg? OpenAI quietly acquired a startup famous for AI deepfake voices
OpenAI has acquired Weights.gg, a startup focused on AI voice replication tools. The startup ceased operations in March and its employees have now reportedly been dispersed inside OpenAI.
- OpenAI Buys AI Voice Startup Weights
OpenAI Buys AI Voice Startup Weights The Information
- Tesla Raises U.S. Model Y Prices. Its Stock Just Forged A Lower Buy Point.
Tesla raised U.S. Model Y prices for the first time in two years. Tesla stock has forged a new, lower buy point. The post Tesla Raises U.S. Model Y Prices. Its Stock Just Forged A Lower Buy Point. appeared first on Investor's Business Daily .
- Tesla cars price hike: EV maker raises US prices of Model Y variants by up to $1,000
Tesla cars price hike: EV maker raises US prices of Model Y variants by up to $1,000
- OpenAI is offering ChatGPT Plus to citizens of Malta for a year
Residents will have to go through a course on artificial intelligence before activating the subscription.
- Malta offers free ChatGPT Plus access to its citizens through a national AI program
Citizens and residents registered with Malta’s online identity system can apply to get access to ChatGPT Plus after completing a free online course.
- OpenAI seals deal in Malta to give all Maltese access to ChatGPT Plus
OpenAI seals deal in Malta to give all Maltese access to ChatGPT Plus Reuters
- Stripe’s John Collison says agentic commerce will completely transform online shopping
John Collison thinks keyword search is a “ridiculous” way to find things to buy. The Stripe co-founder told Bloomberg that agentic commerce, in which AI agents shop on behalf of consumers, will completely transform the online shopping experience, reshaping not just how people purchase but how retailers sell. The argument is structural. For more than […] This story continues at The Next Web
- Odd Lots: Stripe’s John Collison on Agentic Commerce (Podcast)
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 chang
- Stripe's John Collison on How Agentic Commerce Will Reshape the Internet
Adapting to a world where AI agents are doing the shopping.
- Easy to use and low cost leaf disease quantification workflow using Ilastik
Accurate and reproducible assessment of foliar disease severity is essential for evaluating the performance of heterogeneous plant communities and understanding host-pathogen interactions. However, traditional visual scoring methods remain subjective, with limited precision, and difficult to scale in large phenotyping experiments. Here, we present a semi-automated image analysis workflow designed to quantify multiple foliar disease symptoms simultaneously on wheat flag leaves sampled from varietal mixtures. The workflow combines three methodological components: (i) a standardized protocol for leaf sampling and imaging, (ii) supervised machine learning segmentation using Random Forest implemented in Ilastik to classify multiple symptoms (powdery mildew and yellow rust), and (iii) a graphical user interface facilitating pipeline deployment by non-specialist operators. To evaluate the influence of image representation on classification performance, four color spaces (RGB, HSV, HLS, LAB) w
- Biological foundation models illuminate annotation blind spots in evolutionarily divergent genomes
Chromosome-scale assemblies are increasingly available for non-model organisms, but functional annotation remains limited when deep evolutionary divergence erodes primary amino-acid sequence identity even though protein structural similarity can remain conserved. We present a hybrid annotation framework that decouples gene-model discovery from cross-species similarity assignment by combining Evo2-based ab initio prediction of exon-intron structures with ESM-2 protein-embedding-based structural similarity mapping. Applied to the sea lamprey, the framework derives high- or medium-confidence cross-species similarity assignments for 73,485 Evo2-derived translated protein models, including 35,395 high-confidence calls, and expands the deduplicated structural catalog to 31,286 loci, including 20,871 additions absent from the Ensembl baseline. A joint alignment-structure classification identifies 21,391 structurally supported catalog loci that a fixed human DIAMOND protein search does not con
- Pope Leo launches Vatican group to study impact of AI on ‘human dignity’
Comes as the Pontiff prepares his inaugural encyclical underlining need for ethics-driven approach to AI
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