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• AI News — May 22, 2026: Anthropic Pays $15B a Year for Colossus, Trump Blocks Model-Disclosure EO

  22 May, 2026

  Hark raises $700M, Anthropic pays $15B yearly for Colossus compute, and Trump shelves an AI model-disclosure executive order citing concerns over US-China tech competition.

• AI News — May 21, 2026: o3 Fills 125 Pages to Kill Erdős Conjecture, OpenAI Files S-1 at $850B

  21 May, 2026

  OpenAI o3 disproves an Erdős conjecture with 125 pages of reasoning, while OpenAI files for IPO at 850B valuation and Cohere returns with an open-weights MoE model.

• AI News — May 20, 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash Triples in Price, Google Buries the Search Box

  20 May, 2026

  Google IO 2026 highlights include Gemini 3.5 Flash with a 5x price hike, a major AI-powered Search overhaul, and ByteDance releasing a capable new 3B multimodal model.

• AI News — May 19, 2026: Musk's OpenAI Suit Dies on Statute of Limitations, Anthropic Buys Stainless for $300M

  19 May, 2026

  Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit on statute of limitations grounds, Anthropic acquires rival SDK tooling firm Stainless for 300M, and Cursor launches a new model with a SpaceX compute deal.

• AI News — May 18, 2026: Claude Overtakes ChatGPT in ARR and DAUs, NIMBY Opposition Hits 70%

  18 May, 2026

  Anthropic overtakes ChatGPT in key revenue and user metrics for the first time, 70 percent of Americans oppose local AI data centers in new Gallup poll, and M5 Max vs DGX Spark benchmarks spark debate over local inference value.

• AI News — May 17, 2026: llama.cpp MTP Merge Lifts DeepSeek Speeds 1.8×, Orthrus Claims 7.8× on Qwen3

  17 May, 2026

  llama.cpp lands Multi-Token Prediction support with up to 1.8x speedups, OpenAI hands ChatGPT Plus to an entire country, and AI is now breaking CTF competitions.

• AI News — May 16, 2026: ChatGPT Taps 12,000 Banks via Plaid, arXiv Bans Year-Long Slop Offenders

  16 May, 2026

  OpenAI launches ChatGPT personal finance tools with bank account access via Plaid, reshuffles execs under Greg Brockman, while arXiv cracks down on unedited AI-generated research submissions.

• AI News — May 15, 2026: Codex Goes Mobile for All Plans, Microsoft Pulls Claude Code From Thousands

  15 May, 2026

  Ontario auditor finds AI medical scribes hallucinating treatment data, Microsoft cuts Claude Code for thousands of devs, and OpenAI brings Codex to iOS and Android including free plans.

• AI News — May 14, 2026: Altman-Musk Trial Hits Week Three, Game Boy Color Runs Transformer

  14 May, 2026

  Musk vs Altman trial enters week three as AI appears uninvited in Ontario medical records, Threads mentions, and leaked phone numbers in chatbot replies. Also a Game Boy Color now runs a transformer model.

• AI News — May 13, 2026: Altman Calls Musk $200B Charity-Killer, ChatGPT Drug Advice Sparks Wrongful-Death Suit

  13 May, 2026

  Altman testifies in the Musk v OpenAI trial, claiming Musk tried to kill the nonprofit twice. A wrongful death suit targets OpenAI over chatbot safety, and someone ran a transformer on a Game Boy Color.