AI News - May 12, 2025

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We're excited to bring you this week's roundup of the most fascinating AI news, updates, and breakthroughs! Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, sit back, and explore the incredible world of AI with us.

🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week

1. ChatGPT’s hallucination problem is worsening, according to OpenAI’s own tests. [Link]

2. New Pope Leo XIV lays out AI as the major challenge facing the Catholic church. [Link]

3. AI safety researchers are warning AI companies to implement safeguards before releasing new models. [Link]

4. Russian propaganda is infecting Western companies’ chatbots. [Link]

5. In a legal first, the family of a man killed in a road rage incident uses AI to create a video that addresses his killer. [Link]

6. The state of California has implemented a new chatbot that gives up-to-date information on wildfires. [Link]

7. NVidia CEO Jensen Huang says that all NVidia engineers will have AI agent assistants. [Link]

8. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says that AI is ‘killing’ the internet business model. [Link]

9. NVidia will release a downgraded version of its H2O chips to circumvent U.S export bans to China. [Link]

10. Google Gemini has beaten the 30-year-old computer game Pokemon Blue. [Link]

11. Meta is blaming President Trump’s tariffs for expanding AI infrastructure costs. [Link]

12. Study shows that AI shouldn’t be relied on for health care. [Link]

13. The Trump administration plans to rescind the Biden executive orders on restricting AI chips to foreign entities. [Link]

14. Chinese company Baidu is seeking a patent to protect AI animal vocalization translations. [Link]