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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product… · The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

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    OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy

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    The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

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    Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work

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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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    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 17, 2026 — 25 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant doesn’t suck The Verge
  2. AI Rings on Fingers Can Interpret Sign Language IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  3. The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets Ars Technica
  4. Some Asexuals Are Using AI Companions for Intimacy Without the Sex Wired
  5. Musk v. Altman week 3: Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side. MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  6. ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop The Verge
  7. The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning TechCrunch
  8. Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions Ars Technica
  9. OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say Ars Technica
  10. The Download: China’s AI drama factory and the WHO’s missing health targets MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  11. Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’ Wired
  12. The world is on track to miss its health targets MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  14. The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial 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. Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS Hugging Face
  21. EMO: Pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity Hugging Face
  22. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  23. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  24. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
  25. Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI VentureBeat
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