AI News — Wednesday, May 13, 2026
28 headlines from 7 outlets, deduped.
Data centers are coming for rural America
Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI On to His Kids, Sam Altman Says
xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit
Sam Altman was winning on the stand, but it might not be enough
The Unitree GD01 Is a Giant Mecha Robot You Can Actually Buy
The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home
Meta won’t let you block its AI account on Threads
“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says
Sam Altman says Elon Musk’s mind games were damaging OpenAI
Neutralizing the Gigascale Problem: How to Solve the Physical Power Paradox of Extreme AI Training Loads
Google's Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they're coming this year
Android is getting a big AI overhaul in 2026
World Models: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
The Download: a Nobel winner on AI, and the case for fixing everything
Your Next AI Query May Travel Where the Power Is
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
Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist
Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering
Startup Wants to Run AI Inference From Space
EMO: Pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity
AI Is Starting to Build Better AI
vLLM V0 to V1: Correctness Before Corrections in RL
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