AI News — Sunday, May 3, 2026
32 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars
The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked
Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell
Study: AI models that consider user's feeling are more likely to make errors
Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions
Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI’s models
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
All the evidence revealed so far in Musk v. Altman
Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines
Cyber-Insecurity in the AI Era
GPT-5.5 matches heavily hyped Mythos Preview in new cybersecurity tests
Operationalizing AI for Scale and Sovereignty
Pentagon strikes classified AI deals with OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia — but not Anthropic
AI Processing of Earth Images Can Now Run in Space
Elon Musk had a bad week in court
Christian content creators are outsourcing AI slop to gig workers on Fiverr
The Download: a new Christian phone network, and debugging LLMs
How Shivon Zilis Operated as Elon Musk’s OpenAI Insider
Good Luck Getting a Mac Mini for the Next ‘Several Months’
Elon Musk's 7 biggest stumbles on the stand at OpenAI trial
DAIMON Robotics Wants to Give Robot Hands a Sense of Touch
AI evals are becoming the new compute bottleneck
Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built
Can Biologists Rewrite the Genome’s Spaghetti Code?
DeepInfra on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
Better Hardware Could Turn Zeros into AI Heroes
Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Long-Context Multimodal Intelligence for Documents, Audio and Video Agents
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI