AI and ChatGPT headlines April-May 2026
GM is firing 600 IT workers and hiring AI engineers. It calls it transformation, not termination (LINK) — 12 May 2026
US: Lawsuit claims ChatGPT gave drug-taking advice that led to teen's death (LINK) — 12 May 2026
ChatGPT 'advised school shooter to target kids to get more attention' (LINK) — 12 May 2026
'Current LLMs introduce substantial errors when editing work documents': Microsoft scientists find most AI models struggle with long-running tasks (LINK) — 12 May 2026
Amazon Web Services partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using USDC — 7 May 2026 (LINK)
US military reaches deals with 7 tech companies to use their AI on classified systems — 2 May 2026 (LINK)
— Notably absent from the list is AI company Anthropic, after its public dispute and legal fight with the Trump administration over the ethics and safety of AI usage in war.
US: Film Academy Board bans AI content at 99th Oscars, forcing human-only wins — 1 May 2026 (LINK)
— Some industry analysts speculate the stance may also be a reaction to the completion of a performance by Val Kilmer, who died in 2025, using AI technology.
The GPT in ChatGPT refers to Generative Pre-training Transformer, referring to the way that ChatGPT processes language (LINK).
GLOBAL GENEVA INSIGHTS: AI health check — cryptocurrencies: the patient is still very sick (LINK)
Samsung profit surges over eight-fold to beat estimates as AI boom fuels memory chip crunch — (LINK) ground.news: media reports — 30 April 2026 (LINK)
Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in court over OpenAI for Altman changing it to a for-profit enterprise — 27 April 2026 (LINK)
AI can cost more than human workers now — 26 April 2026 (LINK)
Meta to lay off 8,000 as part of AI efficiency push — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
OpenAI says its new ChatGPT for doctors outperforms humans in clinical tasks — 23 April 2026 (LINK)
AI search is changing which crypto brands get discovered: i.e. the ones whose coverage appears in the right places, in the right format, with consistent language across sources — 14 April 2026 (LINK)
— Less than 15% of crypto projects have taken meaningful steps to appear in AI-generated answers, and the gap between who AI recommends and who deserves to be recommended widens every quarter.
10 best AI crypto and stock trading bots (2026): a beginner's guide — 14 April 2026 (LINK)
Scott Bessent calls emergency meeting with bank CEOs over AI that could crash the financial system — what is Anthropic's Mythos and why the panic? — 12 April 2026 (LINK)
— Moneywise: According to Anthropic's security team (6), Mythos has already identified thousands of previously unknown, aka "zero-day," vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. Among the discoveries: a flaw in OpenBSD — widely regarded as one of the most secure operating systems available — that had gone undetected for 27 years, and a bug in the video processor FFmpeg that survived five million automated security tests without being caught, per Quartz. What makes Mythos especially worrying to regulators is not just that it can find these flaws, but that it can link multiple vulnerabilities together autonomously to construct working exploits.
Pentagon Official profited 4,800% on Musk's xAI stock, Guardian reports — (LINK) ground.news: 9 media reports — 9 April 2026 (LINK)
Using AI safely as a journalist: Stand-alone AI tools — 1 April 2026 (LINK)
Anthropic leaks source code for AI software engineering tool Claude — 1 April 2026 (LINK)
— Nearly 2,000 internal files were briefly leaked after ‘human error’, raising fresh security questions at the AI company.
AI models lie, cheat, and steal to protect other models from being deleted — 1 April 2026 (LINK)
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