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AI News Digest - 2026-05-17
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Elon Musk and OpenAI concluded week three of their trial as lawyers presented closing arguments and the jury began deliberations over Musk's claims, including a request to unwind OpenAI's 2025 restructuring and seek up to $134 billion in damages.
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers built a new benchmark that measured how AI agents could exploit real vulnerabilities in Google's V8 engine and showed that Anthropic's Claude Mythos outperformed GPT-5.5 by a wide margin while costing roughly twelve times as much.
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OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, a small voice-cloning startup known for celebrity imitations; the team of about six joined OpenAI and the company did not plan to release a standalone cloning product.
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YouTube opened its Likeness Detection deepfake face-swap tool to all creators aged 18 and older, enabling identification of AI-generated face fakes and allowing creators to file removal requests directly through YouTube Studio after the feature had been limited to partner program members.
