AI News Archive: May 22, 2026 — Part 11
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- Waymo pauses driverless car service in Atlanta and Texas ahead of potentially dangerous storms
Waymo has suspended driverless car services in Atlanta and Texas after one of its vehicles was stranded by flooding during heavy rains that will likely also hinder travel in a large swath of the U.
- Waymo pauses freeway robotaxi routes after safety and software concerns
Waymo temporarily pauses all U.S. freeway robotaxi operations to address construction zone performance issues while surface street routes remain active.
- Waymo suspends freeway driving amid safety concerns
On Thursday, Waymo customers opened up the app and noticed something unusual: no more freeway service. Trips that would normally take a few minutes on the freeway were suddenly projected to last much longer via local roads. The company later confirmed that it had suspended freeway driving across all of its US markets over concerns […]
- Waymo takes multi-city pause over flood concerns, halts freeway access
Waymo takes multi-city pause over flood concerns, halts freeway access The Mercury News
- Trump abruptly cancels EO signing event after top AI firm CEOs declined to go
Trump delays AI safety testing EO, claiming it would be an innovation “blocker.”
- Read the AI executive order thwarted by Trump tech allies
Here is the draft executive order on cybersecurity and AI as it stood before President Trump pulled the plug on it Thursday. State of play: The industry and administration are scrambling to figure out what's next as key questions remain unanswered on the future of government access to top AI models and general AI safety.
- Trump pulls AI safety order after last-minute calls from Musk, Zuckerberg, and Sacks
Trump killed an executive order on AI safety at the last minute after calls from Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and former advisor David Sacks. The order would have created a voluntary review system for frontier models with a 90-day window before release. The article Trump pulls AI safety order after last-minute calls from Musk, Zuckerberg, and Sacks appeared first on The Decoder .
- Trump stalls AI safety order
Trump stalls AI safety order, OpenAI model disproves 80-year math conjecture
- Trump delays AI executive order, citing competition with China
The order would create a voluntary framework for AI developers to engage with the government before releasing advanced AI models
- Here’s the Executive Order on AI That Gave Trump Cold Feet
Earlier this week, Trump's coterie of big tech execs was supposed to join him to sign it. Then it got called off.
- Trump delays AI executive order after tech industry pushback
U.S. President Donald Trump has delayed the signing of an executive order designed to regulate advanced artificial intelligence models. “I didn’t like certain aspects of it. I postponed it,” Trump told reporters at a Thursday event in the Oval Office. According to Politico, the decision came after several prominent tech industry figures expressed opposition to […] The post Trump delays AI executive order after tech industry pushback appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Trump cancels AI executive order over China fears
US president calls off plan to add safety guardrails amid pressure from Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
- Trump calls off AI executive order over concern it could weaken US tech edge
Trump calls off AI executive order over concern it could weaken US tech edge Dallas News
- Trump cancels AI executive order signing
President Trump struggles to make a plan for artificial intelligence regulation after initially taking a hands off position on the emerging technology.
- AI boosts productivity at Epsilon India as output rises without hiring surge
Epsilon India, the technology and marketing services arm of Publicis Groupe, is scaling up output significantly while keeping its workforce broadly unchanged, highlighting how artificial intelligence is reshaping productivity across global capability centres (GCCs), Reuters reported.The company, which employs around 3,000 people in Bengaluru, is using AI to streamline software development, engineering and operational workflows, with traditional boundaries between these functions increasingly blurring. This integration is enabling faster code generation, improved automation, and more efficient delivery cycles.India managing director Pratik Nath said the shift is not about reducing jobs but expanding capacity and responsibilities. “What has changed is the amount of work that we are delivering, the new responsibilities that we have picked up,” he said, adding that “we are able to do significantly more with the same set of people… because of the power that AI brings in.”AI tools are also i
- Workday jumps 5% as it bumps up margin forecast on AI strength
Workday's CEO says the company is seeing success in artificial intelligence.
- Workday Stock Rises. Why The Software Company’s Earnings Flip the AI Script.
Workday Stock Rises. Why The Software Company’s Earnings Flip the AI Script. Barron's
- Lenovo shares jump as AI business lift profit
The company said AI-related revenue made up 38% of sales in the quarter and rose 84% from a year earlier.
- The AI Breakthrough That Has Mathematicians Paying Attention
OpenAI announced this week that one of its general-purpose reasoning models made a breakthrough that has grabbed the attention of elite mathematicians.
- An AI Math Breakthrough and the New Division of Labor
In a piece I wrote a few months ago, I argued that research mathematics had become an unexpectedly useful test case for AI, precisely because mathematical claims are either right or wrong, which makes AI outputs verifiable in a way that many business applications are not. That argument just got a very concrete test case. Continue reading "An AI Math Breakthrough and the New Division of Labor" The post An AI Math Breakthrough and the New Division of Labor appeared first on Gradient Flow .
- The Rise of LLMs Is Not an Accident
Over three decades, I’ve watched consumer behavior evolve across television, search, and social media. Each shift changed tactics, but not the underlying logic of decision-making. What I am watching happen right now is different. And I know I am not alone. Every seasoned marketing professional I speak to, whether they built their career in offline […] This story continues at The Next Web
- California is directing state agencies to prepare workers for potential AI job disruption
The order directs agencies to explore severance standards, expanded unemployment insurance, worker ownership models, and job retraining programs
- California governor orders a plan to cope with AI job upheaval
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered officials to start work on a plan to mitigate the job-destroying impact of artificial intelligence, the first US state to do so.
- Starbucks pulls its AI inventory tool nine months in, after it kept confusing the milks
The chain is reverting to manual counts across North America, ending one of CEO Brian Niccol’s more visible technology bets and adding another data point to the file marked “enterprise AI pilots that did not survive contact with the real store.” Starbucks has retired the AI-powered inventory tool it rolled out across its North American […] This story continues at The Next Web
- Starbucks Abandons Borked AI Inventory Tool That Couldn’t Count: Report
The company behind the tool said its on a "mission to count everything of value in the world."
- Starbucks Scraps Disastrous AI Tool
The AI never had its coffee. The post Starbucks Scraps Disastrous AI Tool appeared first on Futurism .
- ChatGPT can now create, edit PowerPoint presentations: Here's how it works
OpenAI's ChatGPT is now integrated into Microsoft PowerPoint, allowing users to create, edit, summarise, and organise presentation slides using AI prompts
- OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Powerpoint plugin and warns it might accidentally delete your content
OpenAI brings ChatGPT directly into PowerPoint. A new beta plugin creates presentations from notes, documents, or images and edits existing slides. The add-in is available worldwide across all tiers. OpenAI recommends saving important decks before using it. The article OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Powerpoint plugin and warns it might accidentally delete your content appeared first on The Decoder .
- ChatGPT gets PowerPoint skills
ChatGPT integrates with PowerPoint to enhance presentation creation
- Standard Chartered CEO apologises for 'lower-value human capital' comments but says AI layoffs need discussion
Standard Chartered CEO apologises for 'lower-value human capital' comments but says AI layoffs need discussion The National
- Standard Chartered boss sorry after saying AI would replace ‘lower-value human capital’ amid job cuts
The Asian-focused bank unveiled plans on Tuesday to cut around 7,800 jobs as it ramps up the use of AI across its operations
- EOS-X Space raises $140M, Mistral acquires Emmi AI, and Bliq approved for fully driverless road operations in Estonia
This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.1 billion and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.If email is more your thing, you c...
- Anthropic in Talks to Use Microsoft Maia 200 Chips for Claude
Anthropic considers using Microsoft Maia 200 chips for Claude
- Soon, Gemini app users will be able to edit images and videos with CapCut
CapCut has confirmed an upcoming integration with Google's Gemini app that could allow users to edit videos and images using AI-powered voice prompts directly inside the Gemini app
- Microsoft, EY to spend $1 billion on helping customers buy agentic AI
Microsoft and EY will spend $1 billion on helping their customers adopt AI over the next five years. The billion will support assisting clients with pioneering AI projects and capability building, said EY’s global Microsoft alliance leader, Paul Clark . Clients will be able to access those resources based on their specific needs, he said. “We’re intentionally building the EY forward deployed engineer (FDE) capability through close collaboration and training with Microsoft, while maintaining integrated EY-Microsoft teams in the field,” he said in an email. “Clients will continue to experience this as one combined team, bringing together engineering depth and transformation expertise.” EY has acted as “client zero” in this initiative, embedding AI in all facets of its organization while it validated ways of working with Microsoft’s technologies. After an initial trial of Microsoft Copilot with 150,000 users, it is now rolling it out through Microsoft 365 E7 to all 400,000 staff. Its comb
- Cisco tried using AI to write security incident reports — and things didn't really go as planned
There are many challenges with generating long-form reports with AI, even with specific sources and instructions.
- Workday extends Sana AI to ITSM after HR, finance
Workday conversational AI platform Sana for Workday is now ready to talk about IT Service Management (ITSM) automation as part of the company’s broader effort to help enterprises streamline workflows, especially across HR and finance, with autonomous AI agents. The new Sana for ITSM capabilities are intended to automate workflows for employee on- and offboarding, access changes, and everyday IT requests. Another new addition, the Travel agent, can help employees plan trips, book travel, and automatically manage expenses in one place, the company said. The unification of cross-departmental workflows, according to Pareekh Jain , principal analyst at Pareekh Consulting, could provide significant advantages to CIOs: “If HR, finance, onboarding, access requests, payroll, travel, and IT support are tied together in one platform, enterprises can reduce friction, automate approvals faster, improve employee experience.” “At the same time, Sana’s agentic backend will also get more organization c
- xAI-Anthropic deal signals the rise of AI compute as a standalone business
New SpaceX IPO filings suggest frontier AI firms are beginning to treat compute infrastructure as a standalone commercial business, with Elon Musk’s xAI agreeing to provide large-scale AI capacity to competitor Anthropic. The filing disclosed that Anthropic agreed to purchase compute services delivered through xAI’s Colossus and Colossus II AI infrastructure clusters through May 2029 under an agreement valued at roughly $1.25 billion per month. The arrangement is notable because Anthropic competes directly with xAI in the market for frontier AI models and enterprise AI services, suggesting at least some AI developers are increasingly willing to buy large-scale compute capacity from rival infrastructure operators rather than rely exclusively on internally owned GPU fleets or traditional hyperscaler cloud platforms. SpaceX also said in the filing that it “may enter into additional compute capacity agreements with third parties in the future,” indicating the Anthropic deal may not remain
- Salesforce touts AI promise over reality in SaaSpocalypse fight
Salesforce touts AI promise over reality in SaaSpocalypse fight The Mercury News
- Salesforce touts AI promise over reality in SaaSpocalypse fight
Salesforce touts AI promise over reality in SaaSpocalypse fight East Bay Times
- ManageEngine rolls out autonomous AI capabilities across its suite to power digital enterprises
ManageEngine today announced the rollout of Zia Agents, the company’s proprietary AI-powered autonomous agent, across its digital enterprise management suite. Built within a secure and privacy-compliant framework, these agents can […] The post ManageEngine rolls out autonomous AI capabilities across its suite to power digital enterprises appeared first on Express Computer .
- Veeam launches DataAI command platform, the industry’s first unified data and AI trust infrastructure for the agentic era
Veeam Software today announced the Veeam DataAI Command Platform at VeeamON 2026 in New York City. The platform marks a defining moment for enterprise technology: the creation of an entirely […] The post Veeam launches DataAI command platform, the industry’s first unified data and AI trust infrastructure for the agentic era appeared first on Express Computer .
- AppliedAI and McKinsey & Company collaborate to rapidly rewire regulated enterprise processes with AI
The collaboration pairs McKinsey's transformation expertise, including QuantumBlack, with Opus, AppliedAI's Agentic Process Execution (APX) platform, to deploy governed, auditable workflows in regulated industries
- Police plan to use AI to screen videos from public to nab traffic offenders, issue summonses faster
Police plan to use AI to screen videos from public to nab traffic offenders, issue summonses faster The Straits Times
- K25.ai bags $2m from NewGenIVF, eyes public-market options
K25.ai bags $2m from NewGenIVF, eyes public-market options DealStreetAsia
- AI controversy swirls around writer from Trinidad and Tobago who won a prestigious prize
AI controversy swirls around writer from Trinidad and Tobago who won a prestigious prize Toronto Star
- AI controversy swirls around writer from Trinidad and Tobago who won a prestigious prize
A prize-winning Caribbean writer from Trinidad and Tobago is embroiled in the latest controversy involving a short story and allegations that artificial intelligence was used to write it.
- AI controversy swirls around writer from Trinidad and Tobago who won prize
A prize-winning Caribbean writer from Trinidad and Tobago is embroiled in the latest controversy involving a short story and allegations that artificial intelligence was used to write it
- AI controversy swirls around writer from Trinidad and Tobago who won a prestigious prize
A prize-winning Caribbean writer from Trinidad and Tobago is embroiled in the latest controversy involving the use of AI for a creative work, after allegations that artificial intelligence was used to write a short story.
- Abu Dhabi launches intelligent surgical network with Johnson & Johnson
Abu Dhabi launches intelligent surgical network with Johnson & Johnson Gulf News