AI News from May 15, 2026

CNBC reports uncertainty remains over US chip sales and rare earths after Trump's China visit, affecting the AI hardware race.

Thinking Machines Lab founder Mira Murati told WIRED her company is building collaborative AI rather than automation that replaces people.

CFTC chairman Michael Selig told WIRED the agency uses AI to investigate illegal activity on prediction markets.

Anthropic says US policymakers must close compute, chip, cloud, and distillation loopholes to preserve an AI lead over China.

OpenAI's Codex coding agent is now available in preview inside ChatGPT's iOS and Android apps.

Anthropic released a paper outlining two scenarios for AI competition between the United States and China through 2028.

Microsoft is canceling Claude Code licenses for thousands of developers and directing them toward GitHub Copilot CLI instead.

Cerebras closed its first trading day near a $100 billion market cap as investor demand for AI chips boosted the IPO wave.