Around the Horn Digest: Everything That Happened in AI Today (Tuesday, May 5, 2026)
The Neuron
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Generative AI
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AI Research
A Cape Breton fiddler sued Google for $1.5M after AI Overview falsely flagged him as a sex offender; OpenAI considered (then rejected) an Alphabet-style spinout for its robotics and hardware divisions; Nature retracted a flagship paper on ChatGPT in education; Microsoft's "Webwright" research framework set SOTA on long-horizon web agent tasks; and Anthropic shipped keyless authentication for the Claude