AI News from May 1, 2026

Live trial coverage detailed heated testimony and courtroom disputes over OpenAI's founding, mission, and restructuring.

UK cyber evaluations found GPT-5.5 comparable to Claude Mythos, renewing debate over frontier model access and safety controls.

OpenAI said newer models increasingly mentioned goblins and gremlins, prompting instructions to reduce the behavior.

Spotify is rolling out Verified by Spotify badges as AI-generated artists and tracks flood streaming platforms.

Google is replacing Assistant with Gemini in cars with Google built in, starting with English-language users in the U.S.

Elon Musk testified that xAI partly used OpenAI models while defending model distillation as common AI practice.