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• AI News — May 07, 2026

  7 May, 2026

  Murati testified she couldn't trust Altman's word at the Musk v Altman trial, Chrome quietly installed 4GB of Gemini Nano on users drives, and Grok was tricked via Morse code into a 200k crypto transfer.

• AI News — May 06, 2026

  6 May, 2026

  OpenAI debuts GPT-5.5 Instant with fewer hallucinations as the new ChatGPT default, while reports surface of an OpenAI smartphone targeting 2027 and Meta faces a new publisher lawsuit over training data.

• AI News — May 05, 2026

  5 May, 2026

  Musk v. Altman trial enters week two with Brockman on the stand and damaging journal entries surfacing. Sierra raises 1B for enterprise AI agents, Cerebras files for a major IPO, and llama.cpp may double local inference speeds.

• AI News — May 04, 2026

  4 May, 2026

  Harvard study shows AI outdiagnosing ER doctors, plus AI detects pancreatic cancer early and a BBC investigation reveals chatbots triggering dangerous delusions.

• AI News — May 03, 2026

  3 May, 2026

  DeepSeek V4 and Kimi K2.6 challenge frontier labs on price and benchmarks, a Hawley bill to ID-verify chatbot users clears committee, and Microsoft quietly attributed commits to Copilot without its use.

• AI News — May 02, 2026

  2 May, 2026

  Pentagon expands classified AI vendors while excluding Anthropic over weapons restrictions, xAI launches Grok 4.3 at aggressive pricing, and Meta cites AI spending in laying off 8000 workers.

• AI News — May 01, 2026

  1 May, 2026

  Anthropic nears a 900B valuation, Musk admits xAI distilled OpenAI models while accusing DeepSeek of the same, and Claude Code may be penalizing users who mention rival AI tools.

• AI News — April 30, 2026

  30 Apr, 2026

  Mistral dropped a dense 128B Medium 3.5 with 256k context, IBM refreshed Granite 4.1, and Elon Musk had a rough day testifying in the OpenAI trial. Nvidia admits compute now costs more than the humans.

• AI News — April 29, 2026

  29 Apr, 2026

  Google signs classified Pentagon AI deal as Musk testifies against Altman in court. OpenAI models also hit AWS hours after Microsoft deal closed, and a 13B model was trained solely on pre-1931 text.

• AI News — April 28, 2026

  28 Apr, 2026

  Microsoft and OpenAI tore up their AGI clause and exclusive deal, while China blocked Metas 2B Manus acquisition reportedly using founders families as leverage. Musk vs Altman heads to jury trial.