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OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 Instant, which it says is smarter, with more accurate and personalized responses, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant as ChatGPT's default model (openai.com)
2026-5-6

Oscars Bans AI Actors and Writing From Awards (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 AI

Pennsylvania sues Character.AI, alleging that one of its characters posed as a psychiatrist, as the state seeks to prevent chatbots from impersonating doctors (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-6 AI chatbot

Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel and Apple executives visited a Samsung plant in Texas to explore producing core chips for its devices in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 Intel Samsung Apple Texas

Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the group's leadership, including bringing over executives from Microsoft's CoreAI engineering unit where she worked before (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-6 Microsoft Xbox

VS Code Update Added Copilot As Default Co-Author To Git Commits (slashdot.org)
2026-5-6

Sao Paulo-based Enter, which uses AI to handle litigation for companies like Airbnb, raised $100M led by Founders Fund at a $1.2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 AI Airbnb

Aylo says it will restore Pornhub access in the UK, but only for users who have verified their age via iOS 26.4's device-level age verification system (www.bbc.com)
2026-5-6 IOS

Intel stock jumps 12%+, hitting a new all-time high, on a report that Apple has had early-stage talks with Intel about enlisting Intel's chipmaking services (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-6 Intel Apple

Anthropic unveils 10 new AI agents for the financial sector, including for drafting pitch decks, reviewing financial statements, and escalating compliance cases (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 AI

'Notepad++ For Mac' Release Is Disavowed By the Creator of the Original (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6

ElevenLabs raised $550M+ in its Series D, up from a previously announced $500M, adding BlackRock, Nvidia, and others as investors; its ARR passed $500M in Q1 (tech.eu)
2026-5-6 Nvidia

FTC to ban data broker Kochava from selling Americans' location data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6 U.S. Ban

Seattle-based CopilotKit, whose popular AG-UI protocol lets developers deploy app-native AI agents, raised a $27M Series A led by Glilot, NFX, and SignalFire (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-6 AI Seattle

The EOL Blind Spot in Your CVE Feed: What SCA Tools Don't Check. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6

Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-5 Zuckerberg

Dutch quantum processor company QuantWare raised a $178M Series B from Intel, In-Q-Tel, and others to build KiloFab, a dedicated quantum manufacturing facility (tech.eu)
2026-5-5 Intel Manufacturing Netherlands Quantum

Sources: China targets 70%+ of silicon wafers used by its chipmakers to be made domestically by 2026; chipmakers see an unspoken mandate to use local 12" wafers (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-5 China

Vimeo data breach exposes personal information of 119,000 people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5

RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient via its open-source SGLang engine (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-5 AI

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying “AI is changing how we work” (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-5 AI Coinbase

The US Commerce Department's CAISI says Google, Microsoft, and xAI join OpenAI and Anthropic in granting early access to evaluate models prior to public release (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Google Microsoft

a16z crypto raised $2.2B for its fifth fund, down from its record $4.5B Fund 4 in May 2022, taking its total capital raised across five funds to ~$9.8B (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-5

Sources: the Trump administration is discussing an EO to form an AI working group that would examine AI oversight procedures, like vetting models before release (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-5 Trump AI

Meta says it will expand Instagram teen account safeguards to 27 EU countries, and plans to roll them out on Facebook in the US, ahead of the UK and EU in June (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-5 Facebook Instagram

Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.2B, above est., GMV up 34% YoY to $100B, and forecasts weaker Q2 revenue growth; SHOP falls 11%+ pre-market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Shopify

Google now offers up to $1.5 million for some Android exploits (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-5 Android Google

Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded for workplace AI experimentation (www.geekwire.com)
2026-5-5 Microsoft AI

Zyg, an AI startup by ironSource's founders to automate business functions, raised $60M led by Accel at a $500M valuation, two months after exiting stealth (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-5 Startup AI

How Microplastics Are Likely Helping To Heat Up the Planet (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-5

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