AI BRIEFING · 2026-05-12

AI Briefing — May 12, 2026

The 10 most important AI stories of May 12, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.

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Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools

Bloomberg Technology ↗

Anthropic PBC is taking steps to help legal professionals carry out more tasks using its Claude chatbot, months after the startup helped spark a steep selloff in software stocks by quietly introducing a narrower set of features.Anthropic on Tuesday announced a dozen new tools, or plugins, intended for attorneys, law students and others in the legal sector. One feature, called “commercial counsel,” is meant to take on work like reviewing vendor agreements; another tool is intended to help with st

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Altman Testifies About Hair-Raising OpenAI Chat With Musk

Bloomberg Technology ↗

OpenAI’s Sam Altman testified that he was “extremely uncomfortable” with Elon Musk’s insistence that he have complete control over a proposed for-profit subsidiary of the startup back in 2017.

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Parents say ChatGPT got their son killed with bad advice on party drugs

The Verge ↗

The family of a 19-year-old college student is suing OpenAI over claims that his conversations with ChatGPT led to an accidental overdose. In the lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Sam Nelson's parents allege ChatGPT "encouraged" the teen to "consume a combination of substances that any licensed medical professional would have recognized as deadly," resulting in his […]

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