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US Bureau of Labor Statistics data: employment in 18 AI-exposed occupations fell 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the broader US labor market rose 0.8% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-16 AI

Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-16 AI

YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-16 AI YouTube

Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes (www.ft.com)
2026-5-16 AI

How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more (p3institute.substack.com)
2026-5-16 AI

Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-16 IPO AI Asset

OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation (www.transformernews.ai)
2026-5-16 AI

ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work (www.404media.co)
2026-5-16 AI Ban

Canadian city mayor denies using AI for government decisions (www.rt.com)
2026-5-16 AI Canada

ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop (slashdot.org)
2026-5-16 AI Ban

A profile of AI video generation startup Runway, which is training models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3B, and added $40M in ARR in Q2 (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-16 Startup AI

Gridcare, which uses AI to detect underused capacity in electric grids, raised a $64M Series A, following a $13.5M seed in 2025 (www.latitudemedia.com)
2026-5-16 AI

A look at Matthew McConaughey's novel legal strategy to fight unauthorized AI use of his image, which involves trademarking video and audio clips of him (variety.com)
2026-5-15 AI

The UK's HMRC tax authority announces a 10-year, £175M deal with London-based Quantexa to use its AI tech to identify fraud incidents and fix tax return errors (www.bbc.com)
2026-5-15 Tax AI London

Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security, which develops a browser-based platform to secure employee use of AI tools, for ~$205M in cash (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-5-15 Israel Startup AI Browser

A profile of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who is killing projects, cutting staff, and pleasing Wall Street, while steering the company toward an AI-focused era (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-15 Amazon AI Wall Street

London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised $70M at a $2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January (www.ft.com)
2026-5-15 Startup AI London

After Mythos, Australia should prepare to battle for access to frontier AI (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-15 Australia AI

Alphabet sold $3.6B of bonds in its debut yen-denominated bond sale, the largest by a non-Japanese company, as AI-driven capital spending accelerates (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-15 Japan AI Alphabet

In a policy paper, Anthropic urges the US and allies to enforce export controls, curb distillation attacks, and export US AI to hold the lead over China by 2028 (www.anthropic.com)
2026-5-15 China AI

Sources: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin plans to raise up to $1B at an up to $5B valuation for a new AI research startup, with General Catalyst possibly leading (www.forbes.com)
2026-5-15 Startup AI

TeamPCP hackers advertise Mistral AI code repos for sale (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-15 AI

Figma reports Q1 revenue up 46% YoY to $333.4M, vs. $313.2M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, citing AI monetization; FIG jumps 8%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-15 AI

Sources: Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital told its stakeholders that it has invested ~$100M in Shopify, framed as a bet on how AI could lead to gains in commerce (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-15 AI Shopify

Sources: Intel has begun testing production of “low-end/legacy iPhone, iPad, and Mac processors”; Apple thinks TSMC's resources will continue tilting toward AI (x.com)
2026-5-15 Intel iPhone AI Apple iPad

Ford stock jumped as much as 25% in two days after the launch of Ford Energy, a new subsidiary providing battery storage capacity to AI data centers (www.ft.com)
2026-5-15 Energy AI Battery Ford

Princeton Will Supervise Exams For First Time In 133 Years Because of AI (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-15 AI

Ian Crosby's Synthetic, which is building an AI bookkeeper, raised a $10M seed led by Khosla; Crosby founded Bench, which raised $100M+ and imploded in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-15 AI

Cisco To Cut Almost 4,000 Jobs In AI-Driven Restructuring (slashdot.org)
2026-5-15 AI Cisco

Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find (slashdot.org)
2026-5-15 AI

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