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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.

References

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/15/1137357/musk-v-altman-week-3/

Musk v. Altman week 3: Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side.

The trial spilled plenty of dirt—and raised more questions than answers about how the AI giant should be governed.

technologyreview.com

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https://the-decoder.com/new-benchmark-shows-claude-mythos-and-gpt-5-5-can-develop-real-browser-exploits-autonomously/

New benchmark shows Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5 can develop real browser exploits autonomously

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University built a new benchmark that measures how far AI agents can go when exploiting real vulnerabilities in Google's V8 engine. Mythos leads GPT-5.5 by a wide margin but costs twelve times as much.

the-decoder.com

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https://the-decoder.com/openai-bought-a-voice-cloning-startup-famous-for-celebrity-imitations/

OpenAI bought a voice cloning startup famous for celebrity imitations

OpenAI has acquired Weights.gg, a small startup that let users create and share AI voice clones of celebrities like Taylor Swift and Donald Trump. The team of around six now works at OpenAI, but the company doesn't plan to release a standalone cloning product.

the-decoder.com

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https://the-decoder.com/youtube-opens-its-deepfake-face-swap-detection-tool-to-all-adult-creators/

YouTube opens its deepfake face-swap detection tool to all adult creators

YouTube is opening its Likeness Detection tool to all creators 18 and older. The system spots AI-generated face fakes in other users' videos and lets creators file removal requests directly through YouTube Studio. Until now, the feature was limited to partner program members; now it's meant to protect smaller channels too.

the-decoder.com

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