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    Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side.

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    YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to all adult users

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    Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval

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    ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop

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    The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning

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    OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to win AI agent battle

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for May 16, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions Ars Technica
  2. Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up TechCrunch
  3. OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say Ars Technica
  4. Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up Wired
  5. AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone The Verge
  6. OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts TechCrunch
  7. Runway started by helping filmmakers — now it wants to beat Google at AI TechCrunch
  8. Pennsylvanians use town hall meeting to rail against data center boom Ars Technica
  9. The Download: China’s AI drama factory and the WHO’s missing health targets MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  10. Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’ Wired
  11. The world is on track to miss its health targets MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial Wired
  14. An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta Wired
  15. Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality Hugging Face
  16. Graphene “Tattoos” for Plants Could Form Neural Networks IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  17. Accelerating Chipmaking Innovation for the Energy-Efficient AI Era IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  18. Unlocking asynchronicity in continuous batching Hugging Face
  19. Can AI Chatbots Reason Like Doctors? IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  21. Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS Hugging Face
  22. EMO: Pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity Hugging Face
  23. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  24. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  25. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
  26. Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI VentureBeat
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