AI News Archive: May 28, 2026 — Part 11
Sourced from 500+ daily AI sources, scored by relevance.
- Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay the cost to power AI
Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots
- AI-generated film about Iranian resistance set to premiere at Tribeca Festival
AI-generated film about Iranian resistance set to premiere at Tribeca Festival CBC
- 'Immense' leverage: why AI chip workers are demanding more
'Immense' leverage: why AI chip workers are demanding more
- 'Immense' leverage: Why AI chip workers are demanding more
Runaway profits and sky-high valuations for microchip companies have fueled worker demands over pay packages in South Korea, raising the question: who profits from the artificial intelligence boom?
- YouTube now lets you ask AI to build a video feed for you
YouTube will now let you use AI to build custom feeds of videos, in a move similar to competitors like Reddit, Bluesky, and X.
- Don't Like Your YouTube Feed? You Can Now Design One Using an AI Prompt
Don't Like Your YouTube Feed? You Can Now Design One Using an AI Prompt PCMag UK
- Don't Like Your YouTube Feed? You Can Now Design One Using an AI Prompt
Don't Like Your YouTube Feed? You Can Now Design One Using an AI Prompt PCMag
- Don't Like Your YouTube Feed? You Can Now Design One Using an AI Prompt
Don't Like Your YouTube Feed? You Can Now Design One Using an AI Prompt PCMag Australia
- Here's what Apple's Siri overhaul for iOS 27 could look like
Apple is reportedly redesigning the iPhone's interface around the new Siri.
- Microsoft Build 2026 Preview: The AI Takeover of Windows Has Officially Begun
Microsoft Build 2026 Preview: The AI Takeover of Windows Has Officially Begun PCMag UK
- The 5 Best AI Tools to Maximize Your Online Meetings
The 5 Best AI Tools to Maximize Your Online Meetings PCMag UK
- Claude Says It Cares About Privacy, But I Still Suggest Checking These 6 Settings
Claude Says It Cares About Privacy, But I Still Suggest Checking These 6 Settings PCMag Australia
- Fraudsters using AI-generated images to target people
Online fraudsters are using AI-generated images and videos to try to lure consumers into handing over sensitive data, according to FraudSMART.
- Lithuania's Kopa.ai raises €2 million seed round to expand agentic e-commerce platform - ArcticStartup
Lithuania's Kopa.ai raises €2 million seed round to expand agentic e-commerce platform - ArcticStartup ArcticStartup
- CNN Files Lawsuit Against Perplexity Alleging Unlawful Content Distribution
CNN on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Perplexity in New York federal court, alleging the AI search engine provider is unlawfully distributing its copyrighted content, marking the latest legal tussle between the AI firm and a news publisher. The complaint …
- Perplexity AI sued by CNN for allegedly copying over 17,000 pieces of content without permission
CNN has sued Perplexity, accusing the AI company of unlawfully using the news network’s copyrighted content without permission. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, claims that Perplexity copied over 17,000 of CNN’s stories, videos, images, and other published works to support its products and tools. “[Perplexity], a company valued at tens of billions of dollars, should not be able to steal from entities that create the original content Perplexity exploits,” said a CNN spokesperson in a statement . “The public relies on high-quality news journalism reported by human beings to understand their world, which is frequently dangerous and expensive to produce. Commercial operators can and must pay to make use of it.” What does the lawsuit say? Filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the lawsuit is CNN’s first legal case against an AI company. The suit outlined how in addition to copyright infringement, Perplexity also allegedly violated CNN’s trademarks by falsely claiming an affiliation between the brand and CNN. In October 2025, CNN and Perplexity negotiated a partnership allowing the AI company to access CNN paywalled content for its Comet Plus users in exchange for compensation to CNN. However, the deal fell through in November 2025 due to CNN’s and Perplexity’s inability to agree on multiple issues, according to the legal complaint. Over the course of negotiations and after, CNN blocked Perplexity’s AI bot from accessing its content. “As a result, before and after Perplexity’s negotiations with CNN, Perplexity knew that it was not permitted to access CNN’s content or to use its trademarks or service marks,” the lawsuit states. In December 2025, CNN wrote to Perplexity’s then-head of legal and operations, demanding a stop to all unauthorized use of CNN’s name and content. Perplexity allegedly never responded to CNN’s letter and continued to use CNN’s content. In a statement to Fast Company , Perplexity’s chief communications officer, Jesse Dwyer, said, “You can’t copyright facts.” This is not the first instance of legal trouble for Perplexity. The New York Times , News Corp. , Chicago Tribune , and Britannica are among the media outlets that have sued the AI startup in recent years. CNN is seeking damages and restitution of profits.
- Afternoon Briefing: Illinois set to OK regulatory framework for big AI companies
Afternoon Briefing: Illinois set to OK regulatory framework for big AI companies Chicago Tribune
- Illinois Set to OK Regulatory Framework for Big AI Companies
Gov. JB Pritzker says he intends to sign legislation to give Illinois a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence developers with a measure that garnered bipartisan support and the backing of AI companies.
- Virginia-based developer plans a second massive Bastrop County data center
Virginia-based developer plans a second massive Bastrop County data center Austin American-Statesman
- More Americans are getting financial advice from AI
More Americans are getting financial advice from AI Raleigh News & Observer
- Humanoids dance and thread needles as Japanese robotics developers look to outdo Chinese
Mechanical hands dexterous enough to thread a needle, childlike dancing robots and adult-sized ones to help with deliveries were on display Thursday as the Humanoids Summit Tokyo opened.
- Microsoft’s AI Copilot is getting a human-focused streamlining
Microsoft’s AI Copilot is getting a revamp aimed at making it faster, simpler, and more closely aligned with how customers actually use AI. The company recently announced a series of internal shifts, naming Jon Friedman as Microsoft’s first chief design officer for Microsoft 365, the productivity suite formerly known as Office 365, and installing Jacob Andreou as EVP of Copilot. The moves effectively merge the teams focused on business and consumer Copilot products. Part of the new leadership’s mandate is ensuring that Copilot, whether accessed through standalone apps, the web, or embedded across Microsoft software, actually meets users’ needs. “How we move forward is to bend the speed of technology to the speed and need of humanity,” Friedman tells Fast Company . Earlier versions of Copilot could feel cluttered, crowded with links and buttons pointing users toward a wide range of use cases. The redesigned experience pares that back considerably. Designers began with the prompt box itself, then layered in only the features users most commonly need, including options to start a new chat, revisit prior conversations, choose an AI model, or monitor long-running AI tasks. “We literally started with a blank page for both mobile and big screen, and then we layered up the experience one step at a time,” says Friedman. As users interact with Copilot, responses will generally appear above the prompt field. The prompt box itself now expands as needed and includes richer formatting options, making it easier to submit more detailed instructions. Features to refine requests, like specifying parameters for a generated image, will surface only when relevant through a design approach known as progressive disclosure . According to Microsoft, the streamlined app also loads more than twice as fast. Within productivity apps like Word and PowerPoint, suggested prompts will adapt to what a user is doing. Someone opening a blank document, for instance, will see different AI suggestions than someone reviewing a heavily edited shared file. Users will also have clearer controls over how the AI interacts with their work, including options to limit Copilot to chat rather than editing, or to focus on a specific section of a document or spreadsheet. [Screenshot: Microsoft] “Whenever I’ve worked with like five or six people on writing a document, it’s been really hard to constantly just rewrite the document with chat,” says Friedman. “It’s way better to be able to fine tune these different areas of a document that you’re working on.” So far, testing shows users given access to the new AI experience in apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook increases their use of Copilot, according to Microsoft data. [Screenshot: Microsoft] Copilot updates will be launched first for enterprise customers before expanding to the full array of business and consumer users, and the changes are informed in part by Microsoft sitting with employees at partner companies and observing in detail how they use the product. But in terms of design, Microsoft is aiming for a kind of elegant user experience that’s still more common in consumer-facing apps, even in an era where high-end tech is routinely branded with a “pro” moniker. “The bar for enterprise software is now the consumer bar,” says Andreou. “It is an expectation that things that you use at work are as good, as reliable, as functional, as easy to use as all the products that you know and you love in your personal life.” For Microsoft, the distinction between consumer and enterprise use cases may not be as wide as it seems, especially when it comes to productivity software. Consumers still come to Microsoft for tools like Word and Excel, Andreou says, even if they use them differently than they would in an office setting. Under the hood, the systems powering those experiences are increasingly similar too. Pulling information from Bing for a consumer query, for example, is not radically different from retrieving answers from a company’s internal data stores. “Productivity is really a whole life thing, and it really is the scenario that changes, but the tool set is very powerful across whole life,” he says. Both consumers and business users have no shortage of AI tools to choose from, including apps from AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic and AI assistants integrated with everything from business software like Slack or Asana to consumer-centric tools like web browsers and smartphone interfaces. Microsoft itself has faced some criticism for rapidly deploying AI features in a wide array of products, from longtime Windows utilities like Paint and Notepad to its various enterprise tools, leaving some users bewildered about the seemingly massive array of Copilots and what each can and can’t do. But arguments for choosing Microsoft’s software over competitors have always included its ubiquity and the integrations between its products. And those now include AI-focused features like Work IQ , which can let Copilot securely access an array of company data stored in Microsoft 365 software, whether the AI is invoked from within apps like Word or Excel. In the future, says Andreou, Microsoft may even be able to roll out greater AI-powered integrations between the consumer and business side of things, perhaps enabling people to do tasks like plan a vacation based on information from both personal and work calendars. Such changes won’t come immediately, though, since the company will need to account for human expectations and needs around security and privacy at least as much as the raw capabilities of the AI. “All of those things rooted in that brand promise of compliance and security have to very much continue,” Andreou says. “And so that’s kind of the path that we’re charting as we look to the future, bringing these two things together.”
- Rivian says AI makes debate over CarPlay ‘completely obsolete’
Rivian’s chief software officer, Wassym Bensaid, joined Nilay Patel in the latest Decoder interview . And his comments on CarPlay show Rivian continuing to double down on its refusal to support Apple’s platform. more…
- Salesforce gives lukewarm outlook that fails to ease AI fear
Salesforce gives lukewarm outlook that fails to ease AI fear East Bay Times
- AI listens to insect body signals to guide cyborg cockroaches
Cyborg insects have long been studied as bio-hybrid systems that combine living organisms with small electronic devices. These systems may one day support tasks such as disaster search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and sensing in spaces too small or dangerous for conventional robots. However, most existing systems control insects based mainly on externally visible behavior, such as whether the insect is walking or stopping.
- Data explosion in AI era: PolyU leads breakthroughs in protein-based data storage, delivering high storage capacity, strong stability and encryption capabilities 15 May 2026 Research and Innovation
Data explosion in AI era: PolyU leads breakthroughs in protein-based data storage, delivering high storage capacity, strong stability and encryption capabilities 15 May 2026 Research and Innovation EurekAlert!
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