AI Daily Report — 2026-05-18
Monday, May 18, 2026
AI Daily Report — 2026-05-18
- University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement — The Verge AI Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, he was repeatedly drowned out by boos. AI is alread…
- Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches — Hacker News Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed multiple times Sunday while discussing artificial intelligence during a commencement speech at the University of Arizona. Other commencement speakers faced sim…
- Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena? — Hacker News
microsoft
- Microsoft admits Windows 11’s dedicated Copilot key breaks certain workflows — Hacker News Windows 11’s special Copilot Key has not been the popular hit that Microsoft was hoping it would be, and has now confirmed plans to let users remap the button back to its old functionality.
openai
- Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial — TechCrunch AI A big theme in the trial’s final days was whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy.
Other/Independent
- South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses — TechCrunch AI A lens the size of a thumbnail — and the South Korean startup that makes it could become the optical backbone of the AI glasses era.
- If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI — TechCrunch AI It’s tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence.
- TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive — TechCrunch AI Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
- Revamped Siri will reportedly offer autodeleting chats — The Verge AI Apple is hoping that its record on privacy can be the differentiator on the AI front and maybe even buy it a little slack as it continues to lag behind the competition. According to Bloomberg’s Mark G…
- Chatbots at the drive-thru are just the beginning — The Verge AI This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is seeping into our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in o…
- NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era — Hacker News The popular version of this story has hardened into a fixed shape. NASA still runs the Voyagers on software written in a programming language nobody alive can read, kept going by a handful of engineer…
- AI is a technology not a product — Hacker News It’s not even a feature. It’s just technology.
- Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter — Hacker News Local LLMs can be very very cheap
- WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound — Hacker News
- Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails — Hacker News Agent-consumable integration skills for the Shuriken platform 🥷 - ShurikenTrade/shuriken-skills
- Why does Amazon have no Western rivals? — Hacker News The internet giant dwarfs other online retailers on both sides of the Atlantic.
- Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely — Hacker News All four crew members ejected safely after two Navy jets collided and crashed on Sunday during an air show at the Mountain Home Air Force Base, officials said.
- The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations — Hacker News A sourced history of ThinkPad from IBM’s 1992 700C to Lenovo’s 2026 AI workstations: TrackPoint, keyboards, X-series, T-series and P-series.
- We Are All Rankers Now: Or Why the Internet Has Turned to Shit — Hacker News AI generated referring to Monty Python’s Dead Parrot Sketch _
I almost posted a comment on a Medium article this morning.
The comment was: “This kind …
- Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf] — Hacker News Continual learning, enabling models to acquire new skills and knowledge without degrading existing capabilities, remains a fundamental challenge for foundation models. While on-policy reinforcement le…
- Don’t Outsource the Learning — Hacker News Right now, it’s too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning. The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn’t move. We are silently trading fu…
- The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse — Hacker News anarcat
- Most Americans don’t trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025) — Hacker News New research reveals how Americans are thinking about artificial intelligence.
- University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading — Hacker News SiIicon Valley can’t seem to read the room.
- I don’t think AI will make your processes go faster — Hacker News Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.
- Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD — Hacker News Trials on veterans suggest the potent hallucinogen could provide a new treatment for PTSD, but scientists still don’t know how it works.
Generated at 2026-05-18T12:00:22Z | Sources: r/artificial, r/MachineLearning, r/LocalLLaMA, r/ChatGPT, HackerNews, TechCrunch AI, The Verge AI, Ars Technica AI