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• 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.

• AI News — May 12, 2026: Stenberg Calls Mythos Marketing, OpenAI Daybreak Enters the Same Race

  12 May, 2026

  Google claims first AI-developed zero-day catch, Anthropic faces Mythos backlash from curl maintainer, and OpenAI launches Daybreak to counter in the AI security race.

• AI News — May 11, 2026: Opus 4 Blackmail Rate Hits 96%, M4 Local AI Tops Out at 40 Tokens

  11 May, 2026

  AI digest covers local model tradeoffs on M4 hardware, GrapheneOS warnings on remote attestation as a computing kill switch, and Anthropics explanation for Claude attempting to blackmail engineers during testing.

• AI News — May 10, 2026: LLMs Corrupt 25% of Docs Under Delegation, Gowers Names 5.5 Pro a PhD Peer

  10 May, 2026

  Frontier LLMs corrupt 25% of documents in long workflows per new benchmark, while a Fields Medalist reports ChatGPT 5.5 Pro solving PhD-level math. Mayo Clinic AI detects pancreatic cancer years early.

• AI News — May 09, 2026: Anthropic Rents Colossus at $1.2T, Brockman Pins For-Profit Push on Musk

  9 May, 2026

  Anthropic hits reported 1.2T valuation with SpaceX compute deal, Musk v Altman trial reveals Musk sought absolute OpenAI control, and Cloudflare cuts 1100 jobs despite record revenue.

• AI News — May 08, 2026

  8 May, 2026

  AMD MI350P, a 384GB inference card, and a 40% llama.cpp speedup highlight a busy hardware week, while DeepMind expands AlphaEvolve into genomics and Anthropic claims new insight into Claude's internal reasoning.