AI News from May 12, 2026

Jensen Huang was not included in Trump's China business delegation, highlighting continuing tensions around Nvidia chip sales.

The US-China technology rivalry sharpened as advanced AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI became a focus of control debates.

GitLab announced layoffs and restructuring while framing the move as a way to invest in growth during the agentic AI era.

AI voice startup Vapi raised a $50 million Series B after Amazon selected its platform to handle Ring customer calls.

The Musk v. Altman trial drew new testimony from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever.

GM is cutting hundreds of IT roles while reallocating talent toward AI-related capabilities and changing technology needs.

European regulators are pushing for access to advanced AI cyber models as they work through oversight of powerful systems.

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab previewed interaction models designed for continuous real-time collaboration with AI.

OpenAI introduced Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative using its models, Codex, and partners to find and remediate vulnerabilities.

OpenAI launched a deployment company, agreed to acquire Tomoro, and is expanding hands-on enterprise AI implementation.

Google says it stopped a likely mass-exploitation campaign using an AI-developed zero-day, raising alarms for cyber defense.