FUNDING · Anthropic commits 5% of shares to establish a public benefit fundOTHER · Replit ends partnership with Anthropic, shifts focus to OpenAIOTHER · Anthropic reports fewer junior employees and more meeting time due to AI integrationPOLICY & SAFETY · Websites restrict AI agent access amid data usage concernsFUNDING · Disney to hire majority of Character.AI's workforce in $20 million dealRESEARCH · New method improves AI decision-making with confidence-calibrated inferenceRESEARCH · New Temporal Specification Guidance framework enhances text-to-video generationPOLICY & SAFETY · Meta removes controversial language on content scraping from terms of useFUNDING · Anthropic commits 5% of shares to establish a public benefit fundOTHER · Replit ends partnership with Anthropic, shifts focus to OpenAIOTHER · Anthropic reports fewer junior employees and more meeting time due to AI integrationPOLICY & SAFETY · Websites restrict AI agent access amid data usage concernsFUNDING · Disney to hire majority of Character.AI's workforce in $20 million dealRESEARCH · New method improves AI decision-making with confidence-calibrated inferenceRESEARCH · New Temporal Specification Guidance framework enhances text-to-video generationPOLICY & SAFETY · Meta removes controversial language on content scraping from terms of use

2026-05-17The week's recap

AI news, Sunday, May 17, 2026

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