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California is set to issue traffic citations directly to autonomous vehicles that break the law, closing a legal gap that gave driverless cars de facto immunity from traffic enforcement.

VS Code automatically injects Co-Authored-by: GitHub Copilot into git commits even when users never used Copilot, sparking backlash on Hacker News.

Q1 2026 earnings reports from Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon reveal combined capital expenditures exceeding $725 billion for the year — nearly double last year's $410 billion — as the AI data center arms race accelerates.

The U.S. Department of Defense finalized AI deployment agreements with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS, NVIDIA, SpaceX, Reflection AI, and Oracle for its most classified networks. Anthropic was excluded after refusing to allow Claude to be used for purposes including autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.

A large-scale controlled resume correspondence study found that LLMs consistently prefer resumes generated by themselves over those written by humans or produced by competing models, with self-preference bias ranging from 67% to 82%. Candidates using the same LLM as the evaluator are 23–60% more likely to be shortlisted than equally qualified applicants submitting human-written resumes.

Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a $100M super PAC backed by OpenAI and Palantir executives, is running a campaign paying influencers up to $5,000 per TikTok video to frame China's AI advancement as a threat to American safety and jobs. Exposed by Wired, the two-phase campaign promotes US AI positively while stoking fear of Chinese AI.

The UK's AI Safety Institute (AISI) found that GPT-5.5 completed a multi-step corporate network attack simulation in 11 minutes at $1.73 — a task estimated to take a human expert 12 hours. It is the second model after Anthropic's Claude Mythos to reach this benchmark, confirming that advanced AI cyber capabilities are an industry-wide trend.

Elon Musk took the stand in Oakland on April 28 in a lawsuit to block OpenAI's nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion, testifying for over seven hours across three days. He claimed to have originated the idea, recruited key staff, and provided all initial funding.

A North Korean-linked supply chain attack on the Axios npm library compromised OpenAI's macOS code-signing workflow, exposing certificates for ChatGPT Desktop, Codex, and Atlas. Users must update before May 8 or face app lockout.

Google has signed a classified AI agreement with the Pentagon allowing use of Gemini for any lawful military purpose. The deal came after Anthropic refused similar terms. Over 600 Google employees sent a letter opposing the contract.

Google DeepMind is inviting developers to showcase their best creations built with GeminiApp or Google AI Studio for the Google I/O 2026 main stage, highlighting protein simulators, physics engines, and math-based art.

xAI officially launched Voice Cloning through its API, allowing users to clone a custom voice in under 2 minutes or select from 80+ pre-built voices across 28 languages for voice agents, audiobooks, and game characters.