AI News Archive: May 19, 2026 — Part 1
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- Google's I/O announcements: new models, a cloud agent that never sleeps, and a redesigned Gemini app
Google used its I/O developer conference to unveil a wave of new AI products. The highlights: a new model called Gemini 3.5 Flash, a multimodal model called Gemini Omni, and a personal agent named Gemini Spark that runs around the clock in the cloud. The Gemini app also gets a major refresh. The article Google's I/O announcements: new models, a cloud agent that never sleeps, and a redesigned Gemini app appeared first on The Decoder .
- Scientists Are Building Artificial Brains from Living Cells
Artificial neural networks built with biological cells promises massive energy savings.
Score: 84🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71336896/ai-network-live-neurons/ - Blackstone to invest $5 billion in AI infrastructure venture with Google, powered by TPU chips
Blackstone is partnering with Google to launch a U.S.-based AI infrastructure company powered by Google’s TPU chips.
Score: 76💰 MoneyMay 19, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/blackstone-google-ai-data-center-joint-venture-tpu.html - Indian scientists create world’s first AI-designed gene editor for crops
While a US company had earlier developed a similar AI-designed system for human cells, this is the first successful demonstration in plants
- InterSystems IntelliCare Becomes the First AI-Native EHR to Achieve EU Medical Device Regulation Certification
InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering more than one billion health records globally, today announced that its electronic health record (EHR) solutions have been certified as Class IIa Medical Devices under Regulation (MDR) certification under Regulation (EU) 2017/745.
- Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action
Gemini 3.5 text and multi-colored star icon on an abstract blue background.
Score: 72🤖 ModelsMay 19, 2026https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/ - How AI helped treat a newborn’s ultra rare disease. ‘It was almost like a light switch.’
The parents of Jorie Kraus told the audience at STAT's Breakthrough Summit West about how AI helped their daughter who was born with a rare disease.
Score: 72🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/19/ai-helped-find-treatment-newborn-ultra-rare-disease/?utm_campaign=rss - Apples AI-powered accessibility upgrades include eye-controlled wheelchairs
Apple is adding Apple Intelligence features to its popular accessibility tools, including Voice Over, live captioning, and even Apple Vision Pro.
Score: 71🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://mashable.com/tech/apple-intelligence-ai-accessibility-enhancements - Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View
an MP4 video with text reading "Project Genie"
Score: 71🤖 ModelsMay 19, 2026https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie-expands/ - Standard Chartered to replace ‘lower-value human capital’ with AI
Comments from CEO Bill Winters come as bank sets out plans to cut almost 8,000 jobs
- SGH working with A*STAR to commercialise AI-powered antibiotics test for superbugs
SGH working with A*STAR to commercialise AI-powered antibiotics test for superbugs The Straits Times
- Cerebras Brings Trillion Parameter Inference to Enterprises with Kimi K2.6
Cerebras announces Kimi K2.6 for trillion parameter inference in enterprises.
- Advanced AI Passes the Turing Test for the First Time
Has the boundary between human consciousness and artificial imitation officially dissolved? A landmark study provides the first empirical proof of an AI system passing the Turing test.
- Google Creates New AI Cloud Company. It’s Coming for CoreWeave—and Nvidia.
Google Creates New AI Cloud Company. It’s Coming for CoreWeave—and Nvidia. Barron's
Score: 68🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.barrons.com/articles/google-blackstone-ai-cloud-chips-c7c6306c - NYU Abu Dhabi translates speech into sign language using AI
NYU Abu Dhabi translates speech into sign language using AI The National
Score: 67🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/2026/05/19/nyu-abu-dhabi-translates-speech-into-sign-language-using-ai/ - Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion Suit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman
A nine-member jury found that Mr. Musk had waited too long to sue. The setback for the tech mogul frees OpenAI to continue in the artificial intelligence race.
Score: 67🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/technology/elon-musk-lawsuit-openai-sam-altman.html - Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore
Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Google’s vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI.
Score: 67🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-goes-agentic-and-doesnt-need-you-anymore/ - Streamer Realtime Deepfakes Himself into Mr. Beast, Says He Loves 'Touching Little Boys'
The software, called Delulu, is marketed specifically to streamers and lets them easily transform into other people including George Floyd, Jeffrey Epstein, and other streamers.
Score: 67🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.404media.co/streamer-realtime-deepfakes-himself-into-mr-beast-says-he-loves-touching-little-boys/ - A new era for AI Search
Text that reads "The best of a search engine with the best of AI"
Score: 67🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/ - Healthcare AI firm Commure valued at $7 billion, raises $70 million
Healthcare AI firm Commure valued at $7 billion, raises $70 million Reuters
- AI is accelerating sexual violence. Pennsylvania is not keeping up.
AI is accelerating sexual violence. Pennsylvania is not keeping up. Inquirer.com
Score: 66🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/ai-abuse-technology-sex-exploitation-extortion-20260519.html - Google Search as you know it is over
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
- Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks
Both tools generate hypotheses; one goes on to analyze some of the data.
Score: 65🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/two-ai-based-science-assistants-succeed-with-drug-retargeting-tasks/ - Google’s Latest AI Model Could Save Companies Billions of Dollars
Google’s new model, Gemini 3.5 Flash, is designed to give people a lot more bang for their buck.
Score: 65🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/googles-latest-ai-model-could-save-companies-billions-of-dollars/91346963 - Analog Devices to buy Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion to boost AI power portfolio
Analog Devices to buy Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion to boost AI power portfolio Reuters
- 'Grave concerns' over children's exposure to deepfakes
An Oireachtas committee has heard of grave concerns over the exposure of children to deepfakes online and over "ideologues" who are obstructing protections.
- NHS warned over plan to replace staff with AI
NHS warned over plan to replace staff with AI The Telegraph
Score: 65🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/19/nhs-warned-over-plan-to-replace-staff-with-ai/ - Demis Hassabis said this might be the ‘foothills of the singularity.’ What?
Welcome to a "profound moment for humanity," according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who closed out Google I/O's keynote presentation on Tuesday, saying: Google's cutting-edge research and products will help unlock AGI's incredible potential for the benefit of the entire world. When we look back at this time, I think we will realize that […]
Score: 65🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.theverge.com/tech/934260/google-io-ai-singularity-demis-hassabis - Cohere acquires Reliant AI to expand sovereign enterprise AI for the global biopharma and healthcare sectors
Cohere acquires Reliant AI to expand sovereign enterprise AI
Score: 64💰 MoneyMay 19, 2026https://cohere.com/blog/cohere-acquires-reliant-ai-expand-sovereign-enterprise-ai - Salesforce to Spend Nearly $300 Mn on Anthropic Tokens in 2026
Salesforce currently has around 15,000 engineers, many of whom now work with AI tools such as Anthropic Claude.
Score: 64💰 MoneyMay 19, 2026https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news/salesforce-to-spend-nearly-300-mn-on-anthropic-tokens-in-2026 - AI: The White House’s policy pivot
The Trump administration is switching things up
- Hitachi teams with Anthropic on AI for rail and power grids
Hitachi teams with Anthropic on AI for rail and power grids Nikkei Asia
- CIA Official: Anthropic’s Mythos AI Should Be ‘Reflection Point’
Advanced AI models with unique hacking capabilities like Mythos should bring federal agencies that handle the government's sensitive information to a "reflection point," according to a CIA tech official.
Score: 63🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.govtech.com/artificial-intelligence/cia-official-anthropics-mythos-ai-should-be-reflection-point - Journalists sue tech giants over 'stolen' voices for AI training
Journalists sue tech giants over 'stolen' voices for AI training USA Today
- Korea launches public-private $33.8bn AI humanoid initiative
Korea launches public-private $33.8bn AI humanoid initiative 매일경제
- Bible bytes: The Pope and Anthropic co-founder join forces on AI ethics
Pope Leo's first major document will confront the age of AI.
Score: 62🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026http://www.euronews.com/next/2026/05/19/bible-bytes-the-pope-and-anthropic-co-founder-join-forces-on-ai-ethics - Tesla’s Former AI Lead Goes To Anthropic
Andrej Karpathy was Tesla’s AI lead well before AI was everywhere all the time. At the very early part of the AI hype cycle, he was the only AI guy many people knew. He led Tesla’s efforts toward Full Self Driving (FSD) for years, and it’s still not exactly clear ... [continued] The post Tesla’s Former AI Lead Goes To Anthropic appeared first on CleanTechnica .
Score: 62🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://cleantechnica.com/2026/05/19/teslas-former-ai-lead-goes-to-anthropic/ - AI companies are influencing global regulatory agenda, researchers warn
AI companies are influencing global regulatory agenda, researchers warn Computing UK
Score: 62🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/ai-companies-are-influencing-global-regulatory-agenda-researchers-warn - Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max Preview Surfaces in LM Arena, Dual 72B Models in Concurrent Iteration
Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max preview has appeared in LM Arena rankings alongside an active Qwen 3 Ultra preview, suggesting the company is simultaneously iterating two flagship 72-billion-parameter models ahead of a full public release.
- Anthropic lures OpenAI co-founder, one of the world's top AI researchers, to lead new team
Karpathy co-founded OpenAI and was the head of AI at Tesla. Now he's joining what many consider to be the breakout industry leader.
- Mistral AI buys Austrian physics AI startup in industrial push
Mistral AI buys Austrian physics AI startup in industrial push Reuters
- Google’s I/O conference showed how the company is being completely rebuilt for AI—for better or for worse
Google’s I/O conference showed how the company is being completely rebuilt for AI—for better or for worse Fortune
Score: 62🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://fortune.com/2026/05/19/google-i-o-conference-ai-search-smart-glasses/ - Anthropic acquires Stainless to strengthen Claude’s developer tooling
Anthropic acquires Stainless to strengthen Claude’s developer tooling InfoWorld
- China will open its market to AI chips from US, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang says
China will open its market to AI chips from US, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang says The Straits Times
- Apple strikes talent and IP deal with virtual avatar startup Animato
Apple has struck a new talent and IP deal with Animato, a startup that makes virtual avatar software for video chats and tutoring. Here are the details. more…
Score: 61🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/19/apple-strikes-talent-and-ip-deal-with-virtual-avatar-startup-animato/ - Investors continue to pile into AI legal tech as Lexroom raises $50m Series B
Investors continue to pile into AI legal tech as Lexroom raises $50m Series B
Score: 61💰 MoneyMay 19, 2026https://sifted.eu/articles/investors-pile-into-legal-tech-lexroom-50m-series-b/ - Big Four post more job ads for AI specialists than auditors
Increase comes as world’s largest accounting firms rush to adapt to technological disruption
- Google DeepMind Hires Staff, Licenses Technology from Contextual AI
Google DeepMind Hires Staff, Licenses Technology from Contextual AI The Information
Score: 61🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/google-deepmind-hires-staff-licenses-technology-contextual-ai - OpenAI says it’s getting serious about AI detection and labeling
Images generated by ChatGPT will now carry Google’s SynthID watermarks.
Score: 61🌐 MovesMay 19, 2026https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/933442/openai-synthid-content-credentials-c2pa-expansion - Therapy at your fingertips: new Reichman University study led by Prof. Anat Shoshani of the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology finds AI could transform mental health care
Therapy at your fingertips: new Reichman University study led by Prof. Anat Shoshani of the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology finds AI could transform mental health care EurekAlert!