AI News — Tuesday, May 12, 2026
32 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks
Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO
Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’
Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS
OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos
GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to
Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months
Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist
Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator
Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI
Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI
Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering
Innovation abounds in device charging
Implementing advanced AI technologies in finance
CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
Startup Wants to Run AI Inference From Space
The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys
Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare
Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market
Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews
EMO: Pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity
AI Is Starting to Build Better AI
Chatbots Need Guardrails to Prevent Delusions and Psychosis
vLLM V0 to V1: Correctness Before Corrections in RL
Ten Technology Enablers Shaping the Future of 6G Wireless
Adding Benchmaxxer Repellant to the Open ASR Leaderboard
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