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Daily Digest: Saturday, 16 May 2026
AI and technology news digest for Saturday, 16 May 2026
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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy
OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.
Anthropic forms $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7
Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available. Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks.
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs
Today, we’re launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.
Claude is a space to think | Anthropic
We’ve made a choice: Claude will remain ad-free. We explain why advertising incentives are incompatible with a genuinely helpful AI assistant, and how we plan to expand access without compromising user trust.
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24 Feb 2026
California Just Told Grok to Stop Making Deepfake Porn
California's new law targets AI-generated deepfake pornography - and xAI's Grok is the first major model caught in the crosshairs.
22 Feb 2026
Elon Musk Merges SpaceX and xAI Because Of Course He Does
Elon Musk merges SpaceX and xAI to embed Grok into spacecraft operations - but this is really about corporate structure and narrative control.
20 Feb 2026
NASA's Mars Rover Just Got Smarter Than Its Engineers
NASA's latest Mars rover can navigate autonomously using AI - making decisions faster than mission control could ever respond.
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JPMorgan is spending $30 billion on AI infrastructure - not because they love technology, but because staying competitive demands it.
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