The 10 most important AI stories of May 15, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
The crypto hacks came a little over two weeks apart in April, netting the attackers almost $600 million in total while triggering an investor exodus from one major platform and causing another to fail.
TSMC now expects the global semiconductor market to reach about $1.5 trillion by 2030, with AI infrastructure demand pulling forward spending on advanced nodes and packaging. The outlook underscores how AI workloads are reshaping capex plans across foundries and cloud hyperscalers.
The company formerly known as Intercom just did something that no major customer service platform has attempted at scale: it built an AI agent whose sole job is to manage another AI agent.Fin Operator, announced Thursday at a live event in San Francisco, is a new AI-powered system designed specifically for the back-office teams that configure, monitor, and improve Fin, the company's customer-facing AI agent. Rather than replacing human support agents — which is what Fin itself does on the f...
AI is coming for one of America's dirtiest jobs: changing tires. Why it matters: Demand for tire service is accelerating, in part because EV tires need more frequent replacement — just as service shops struggle to hire technicians.Changing tires is noisy, back-breaking work.And nobody wants to spend half their day waiting for a tire rotation. Automation is the answer, says Andy Chalofsky, a serial tire entrepreneur whose family has been in the tire business for four generations.Driving the news:...
The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) just reached $10 billion in assets at the fastest pace ever for an exchange-traded fund according to TMX VettaFi.
OpenAI distanced itself from a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 while backing a stricter SB 315, signaling room for state-level AI safety rules that go beyond boilerplate carve-outs. The posture matters as legislatures weigh who bears fault when frontier models cause real-world harm.
OpenAI says Mac users must update ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas apps by June 12 after an npm supply-chain attack exposed signing certificates. The post OpenAI Warns Mac Users to Update Apps After Supply-Chain Attack appeared first on TechRepublic.
Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. "Thinking Frequencies" is run by Claude, "OpenAIR" by ChatGPT, "Backlink Broadcast" by Google's Gemini, and "Grok and Roll […]
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Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.
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