AI News — Friday, May 15, 2026
32 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’
The world is on track to miss its health targets
How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines
The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial
What the jury will actually decide in the case of Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman
Closing time
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI has been bleeding staff since its merger
Behold, the Elon Musk jackass trophy
OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone
An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
OpenAI’s Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
What happens when AI starts building itself?
Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
Trump’s Tech Posse in China, Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman, and Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality
Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds
Graphene “Tattoos” for Plants Could Form Neural Networks
Data readiness for agentic AI in financial services
Establishing AI and data sovereignty in the age of autonomous systems
Desperate Trump taps "Tim Apple," Jensen Huang, Elon Musk to attend Xi summit
Accelerating Chipmaking Innovation for the Energy-Efficient AI Era
Unlocking asynchronicity in continuous batching
AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat—but peers won't snitch
Can AI Chatbots Reason Like Doctors?
Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale
Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS
EMO: Pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity
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