AI News — Monday, May 18, 2026
32 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
How Melbourne’s AI and Data Center Flywheel Is Accelerating Research Innovation
Agentic AI for Robot Teams
I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?
Apple’s Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats
Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial
Revamped Siri will reportedly offer autodeleting chats
University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement
If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI
TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive
Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks
Chatbots at the drive-thru are just the beginning
Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant doesn’t suck
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.
Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval
Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions
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
Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality
Unlocking asynchronicity in continuous batching
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