AI News — Sunday, May 17, 2026
32 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush
Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work
Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant doesn’t suck
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy
AI Rings on Fingers Can Interpret Sign Language
The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets
Some Asexuals Are Using AI Companions for Intimacy Without the Sex
Musk v. Altman week 3: Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side.
YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to all adult users
Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval
ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop
The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning
Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions
OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to win AI agent battle
OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say
Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up
The Download: China’s AI drama factory and the WHO’s missing health targets
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
Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality
Graphene “Tattoos” for Plants Could Form Neural Networks
Accelerating Chipmaking Innovation for the Energy-Efficient AI Era
Unlocking asynchronicity in continuous batching
Can AI Chatbots Reason Like Doctors?
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