Tech

YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-16 AI YouTube

Filings: YouTube and Snap reached agreements to settle a lawsuit headed to trial in June over claims addiction to social media has disrupted students' learning (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-16 YouTube

Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-16

Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes (www.ft.com)
2026-5-16 AI

AMD Is Bringing Improved FSR 4 Upscaling To Its Older GPUs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16 AMD

How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more (p3institute.substack.com)
2026-5-16 AI

Bitwarden Scrubs 'Always Free' and 'Inclusion' Values From Its Website (it.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16

In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a “VC vs GC” video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-16

Semiconductor stocks fell globally on Friday after the Trump-Xi summit concluded without major chip deals; Nvidia closed down 4.42% and AMD closed down 5.69% (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-16 Trump Nvidia AMD

The Era of 15GB Free Gmail Storage Is Ending (tech.slashdot.org)
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Sources: SpaceX aims to make its IPO prospectus public by next week, targeting a June 12 listing on Nasdaq, driven by a faster-than-expected SEC review (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-16 IPO SpaceX

Sources: Nord Quantique, a quantum computing startup that is pursuing a hardware-level quantum error correction approach, raised $30M at a $1.4B valuation (www.theglobeandmail.com)
2026-5-16 Startup Quantum

Funnel Builder WordPress plugin bug exploited to steal credit cards (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-16 WordPress Credit Card

Bill To Block Publishers From Killing Online Games Advances In California (games.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16 California

Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-16 IPO AI Asset

OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation (www.transformernews.ai)
2026-5-16 AI

OpenAI Now Wants ChatGPT To Access Your Bank Accounts (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16

ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work (www.404media.co)
2026-5-16 AI Ban

Microsoft Exchange, Windows 11 hacked on second day of Pwn2Own (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-16 Microsoft

OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team (www.wired.com)
2026-5-16

Popular node-ipc npm package compromised to steal credentials (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-16

ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop (slashdot.org)
2026-5-16 AI Ban

Replit says it has “worked things out with Apple”, which has approved a Replit update after four months, following a reported dispute over vibe coding apps (9to5mac.com)
2026-5-16 Apple

OpenAI launches personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, letting them connect to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending, plan finances, more (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-16

Avada Builder WordPress plugin flaws allow site credential theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-16 WordPress

Congress Introduces Bill To Permanently Block Chinese Vehicles From US (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16 China

A profile of AI video generation startup Runway, which is training models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3B, and added $40M in ARR in Q2 (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-16 Startup AI

Honda Retreats To Hybrids After Failed EV Bet Triggers Record $9 Billion Loss (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-16 Honda

Microsoft Edge to stop loading cleartext passwords in memory on startup (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-16 Microsoft Startup

Gridcare, which uses AI to detect underused capacity in electric grids, raised a $64M Series A, following a $13.5M seed in 2025 (www.latitudemedia.com)
2026-5-16 AI

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