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No editor's note for this day — the brief below was assembled automatically from the 32 stories our 8 sources published, clustered by how many outlets ran each one.
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The rest of the wire for May 18, 2026 — 26 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.
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- May 17
- Revamped Siri will reportedly offer autodeleting chats The Verge
- University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement The Verge
- If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI TechCrunch
- Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
- Chatbots at the drive-thru are just the beginning The Verge
- May 16
- Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant doesn’t suck The Verge
- AI Rings on Fingers Can Interpret Sign Language IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
- The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets Ars Technica
- Some Asexuals Are Using AI Companions for Intimacy Without the Sex Wired
- May 15
- 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
- Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval Ars Technica
- Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions Ars Technica
- OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say Ars Technica
- Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up Wired
- The Download: China’s AI drama factory and the WHO’s missing health targets MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
- Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’ Wired
- The world is on track to miss its health targets MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
- How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
- May 14
- Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality Hugging Face
- Unlocking asynchronicity in continuous batching Hugging Face
- May 11
- Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS Hugging Face
- May 8
- EMO: Pretraining mixture of experts for emergent modularity Hugging Face
- Jan 22
- Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
- Jan 19
- Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
- Jan 16
- Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
- Jan 13
- Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI VentureBeat