AI News Roundup – May 22, 2026
Anti-“doomer” feedback derails Trump’s AI executive order
President Trump canceled his highly anticipated AI executive order to avoid regulation and maintain a competitive edge against China.
Do Google’s I/O AI Announcements Live Up to the Hype? I Put Them to the Test
Google’s new Gemini 3.5 Flash and Omni video tools show impressive performance speeds but are hindered by strict user limits.
‘You should be spending more on tokens than on rent’: Here’s what ‘tokenmaxxing’ is and why you shouldn’t look to AI enthusiasts for budget advice
Tech enthusiasts are overspending on AI usage to boost productivity in a trend called ‘tokenmaxxing,’ which experts dismiss as a vanity metric.
New Pentagon task force races to bring powerful AI tools to America’s most sensitive networks
The Pentagon launched a joint task force between Cyber Command and the NSA to safely deploy cutting-edge AI models on military networks.
The Emerging AI Policy Consensus
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the GUARD Act to mandate age verification for AI chatbots and enforce tech company liability.
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
An internal OpenAI model autonomously solved the 80-year-old Erdős unit distance mathematical conjecture, generating entirely original breakthroughs.
The Gemini app becomes more agentic, delivering proactive, 24/7 help
Google’s Gemini app is upgrading into a proactive, 24/7 personal AI agent that actively manages your tasks and daily workflows.
Widening the conversation on frontier AI
Anthropic is collaborating with religious scholars, philosophers, and ethicists to build moral frameworks and an ‘ethical pause’ into its AI models.
Pope and co-founder of Anthropic to launch pontiff’s AI encyclical on May 25
Pope Leo XIV and Anthropic’s co-founder are releasing an AI-focused encyclical, setting up a clash with the Trump administration.
Jury tosses Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman
Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman because a jury unanimously found he waited too long to file his claims.

