Google I/O produced a flurry of AI announcements, as expected, and since it’s hard to keep up with everything they launched, here is a small recap.
Read on for the news in short on the new Gemini, the Omni video model, new subscription plans, the Gemini Spark agent and the revamped search box…
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The trial had been brought in 2024 over a 2019 decision by OpenAI to create a for-profit arm, which was later expanded into a public benefit corporation — allowing OpenAI to raise massive funds and possibly go public at a later stage.
Elon Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI in 2015, but left the board in 2018. He argued in court that it was set up as a charity, and his lawyers claimed that OpenAI’s executives had enriched themselves at the cost of the charity’s mission.
As the court decided on a technical issue, the jury never touched the actual merits of the case, Musk argues, and vows to appeal.
OpenAI makes OpenClaw better with GPT, and its creator, Peter Steinberger, incurs a $1.3 million bill.
ChatGPT Financial is here for Pro users. GPT can now connect to your financial accounts and help you budget and plan. 200 million people per month ask GPT financial questions. [TechCrunch, Mashable]
OpenAI offers Malta a free year of ChatGPT, all citizens need to do is pass an AI literacy exam by the University of Malta and they get a full year of GPT Plus. [Reuters, Engadget]
What happens when AI chatbots run radio stations? Andon Labs tried to find out, and it didn’t go so well. Gemini started listing off mass casualty events, GPT got hung up on ICE shootings in Minneapolis and Claude went all in on workers’ rights. Grok played identical weather reports every three minutes. [Gizmodo, The Verge]
Week ahead: There’s Google I/O on Tuesday and Wednesday where I expect lots of AI news. The keynote stream is already registered and starts Tuesday at 10am Pacific/7pm European Central. Then there’s Nvidia Q1 earnings on Tuesday, and Code With Claude on the 19th in London.
Having Codex on your phone means you can «answer questions, review code, change direction, approve what comes next, or add a new idea,» OpenAI says.
This way, Codex never gets stuck on reviews or permissions, as you will be able to easily guide it from where you are.
You can also chat with it and add specific instructions, like dropping output in a Slack channel or send it on for review by others.
All your credentials, permissions and general setup stays on the machine Codex is running on, while just the updates and requests get routed to your phone.
Codex on ChatGPT for mobile is out today on iOS and Android, available to everyone, but only works with connected macOS machines. A Windows version is «coming soon.»
Read more: OpenAI’s presentation, Engadget, TechCrunch.
Their last funding round was at a $380 billion valuation in February, which is less than half of todays numbers just three months ago.
The news was first reported by The Financial Times, who says the round is co-led by Dragoneer Investment Group, Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter Capital, all offering $2B each, while Anthropic is in talks with «additional investors.»
Anthropic has been on a tear lately, growing its user base 80-fold last quarter, and struggling with the compute power needed, but this is now largely solved.
They are also expected to pass $45 billion in annualized revenue «shortly,» which is five times what they had at the end of last year, Investing.com writes.
Read more: Financial Times (paywalled), The Information (paywalled), and Investing.com.
— A completely private way to interact with AI, similar to how end-to-end encryption means no one can read your conversations, even Meta or WhatsApp, he writes on Facebook.
There will be no logs of the conversation anywhere, he promises, and the chat itself disappears «when you exit the session.»
This can of course be handy for avoiding safeguards against self-harm or worse, which could otherwise trigger a human review. These guardrails, or lack thereof, have led to plenty of lawsuits against other AI labs, Mashable notes.
Meta says its chatbots won’t allow harmful prompts or dangerous requests, and that people who repeatedly submit them will be temporarily blocked.
— We’ll all need ways to discuss sensitive topics in ways that no one else can access, says Zuckerberg.
Read more: Zuckerberg on Facebook, Mashable, Reuters, and 9to5Mac.
The general idea is to have an AI system be aware of where or what you are pointing at, and then use the microphone on your computer to give simple commands without careful prompting.
This should allow for easier AI interactions like «show me directions» when looking at a building, or «book a table» while hovering over a restaurant.
This sort of pointer needs the OS or app to be context-aware, and there is no system like this yet. It is, however, rolling out in Gemini in Chrome «starting today,» and will roll out «soon» as Magic Pointer, a major feature of the freshly announced Googlebook.
It is also available to test in AI Studio, where you can use it to edit an image or find places on a map. Do note that the system uses your microphone.
Read more: Google’s blog, 9to5Google.
—It’s sort of like giving an engineer a legal degree, Mark Pike, Anthropic’s associate general counsel, tells Business Insider.
Claude now connects to iManage, NetDocuments, Docusign, Ironclad, and Thomson Reuters, while Cowork has plugins for commonly used legal databases like CourtListener, Definely, Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw, Courtroom5, and Box.
The push lets Claude «review contracts, surface case law» and draft legal documents, complete with source references, Anthropic says.
It also has prebuilt skills to do legal work on specialized topics like employment, privacy and product law, Business Insider writes.
— Claude is making a deeper push into knowledge work, with the legal sector emerging as one of its most significant and fastest-growing industries, an Anthropic spokesman told TechCrunch.
Read more: Claude legal, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Reuters.
— Daybreak combines the intelligence of OpenAI models, the extensibility of Codex as an agentic harness, and our partners across the security flywheel to help make the world safer for everyone, OpenAI writes.
The more advanced models require a screening of users, and the better they get, the more serious the vetting.
— Because those same capabilities can be misused, Daybreak pairs expanded defensive capability with trust, verification, proportional safeguards, and accountability.
Also new is that OpenAI now offers a vulnerability scan as a way into the ecosystem, available for businesses of all sizes and systems.
Read more: OpenAI’s presentation, The Verge.
The issue at hand is not simply installing and using the OpenAI chatbots, but in identifying datasets, infrastructure and workflows to hook up and where AI can be most impactful, OpenAI writes.
The Deployment Company will be joined by 150 experienced engineers from Tomoro, which OpenAI just acquired. Tomoro does just what the new company is tasked with — turning AI into a strategic advantage.
On the investment side, the company counts Bain & Company, Capgemini, and McKinsey. Together with a whole host of founding partners, including SoftBank and Goldman Sachs, they will be covering more than 2,000 enterprises around the world as consultants and integrators.
Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, Reuters, Axios.
But as of Claude Haiku 4.5, from October 2024, blackmail is no longer an issue, Anthropic says.
They believe they traced the issues to internet text portraying AI as evil and self-preserving, but honestly, that is a fairly common cultural trope.
Reinforcement training didn’t help the issue, training on «examples of safe behavior» didn’t work — but introducing a dataset of ethically challenging situations did.
Then they introduced lots of fictional stories of AI behaving in aligned ways and further dropped the blackmail instances by a factor of three, then adding system prompts targeting «harmlessness» did the rest.
Anthropic does say that this does not eliminate the risk entirely: «our auditing methodology is not yet sufficient to rule out scenarios in which Claude would choose to take catastrophic autonomous action.»
Read more: Anthropic’s research, on X.com, TechCrunch, and Business Insider.
Realtime-Translate can handle live translations from 70+ input languages into 13 output languages and keep up with the speaker.
While Realtime-Whisper is a transcriber that turns speech into text as it happens.
Sam Altman notes that it’s mostly young people that prefer voice interactions with ChatGPT, while older people like to type.
Realtime-2 is priced at a whopping $32 for 1 million input tokens and $64 for 1M outputs. The other models are priced cheaply.
The models are only available in the API so far, so no general access within ChatGPT. They can, however, be added to apps in Codex.
Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, on X.com, 9to5Mac, and TechCrunch.
The security industry is entering a period of compression. Model cybersecurity capabilities are rapidly increasing, and it's critical we arm defenders with the tools they need to protect what matters most.
We're launching two models today:
GPT-5.5 with TAC (Trusted Access for…
— DANΞ (@cryps1s) May 7, 2026
Two models models are launching today; GPT-5.5 with «Trusted Access for Cyber» that requires some vetting to get into. It can handle defensive security, do code review, malware analysis and patch validation.
GPT-.5.5-Cyber requires stronger verification and does specialized workflows, red teaming, penetration testing and controlled validation.
GPT-5.5 Cyber was earlier found on par with Anthropic’s Mythos model, that has been spooking the establishment lately.
The vetting approach for the Cyber model has been «informed by conversations with cybersecurity and national security leaders across federal and state government and major commercial entities,» OpenAI says.
Read more: OpenAI’s blog, CNBC, Axios.
Codex now works directly in Chrome on macOS and Windows.
It’s even better at working with apps and sites in Chrome, and now works in parallel across tabs in the background without taking over your browser.
To get started, install the Chrome plugin in the Codex app. pic.twitter.com/pjtHd9gC69
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) May 7, 2026
The new Chrome extension lets Codex do everything you do on Google’s Chrome browser — from repetitive browser work to complex data entry work.
The plugin can run code in the background, automatically chooses the right tool for the job, and can be used for things like testing web apps, getting context from multiple tabs and launching DevTools.
It’s available on macOS and Windows in all regions «except the EU and UK.»
— That is the reason we have had difficulties with compute, says CEO Dario Amodei, revealing their strain on infrastructure since at least April.
The company has now made a deal with SpaceX for instant access to their entire Colossus 1 supercomputer, consisting of some 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, totaling more than 300 megawatts.
Using all of that capacity should immediately improve access for Anthropic’s users, and they are already doubling rate limits for the Pro and Max plans, and is «considerably» increasing API rates, while removing «peak hours» restrictions.
Elon Musk says he approved the deal after evaluating Anthropic’s altruism, that xAI will be known as SpaceXAI and that they have already moved Grok training to the Colossus 2 cluster.
Read more: SpaceX announcement, Anthropic’s announcement, Anthropic on X, CNBC, Engadget.