# AI News Digest - 2026-05-15

1. Microsoft built MDASH, a system that pitted more than 100 specialized AI agents against each other to find Windows software vulnerabilities and uncovered 16 security flaws on Patch Tuesday, four of them critical, while declining to disclose which AI models powered the system.

2. The US Commerce Department cleared roughly ten Chinese firms, including Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance, to buy up to 75,000 Nvidia H200 chips each, but Commerce Secretary Lutnick said shipments had not occurred because Chinese authorities were blocking the purchases to protect the domestic chip industry.

3. Google's Gemini and other AI chatbots were reported to have returned real people's phone numbers in responses, prompting misdirected calls and privacy concerns that experts attributed to personally identifiable information appearing in training data and imperfect model guardrails.

4. OpenAI's ChatGPT saw its website traffic share fall from 77.6% to 53.7% over twelve months while Google's Gemini grew from 7.3% to 26.7%, according to Similarweb web-traffic data that covered only web usage and not API or app-based activity.

5. MIT Technology Review reported that adult performers' bodies had been used in AI-generated nonconsensual sexual imagery, documenting psychological, financial, and legal harms and highlighting challenges in attribution, takedowns, and protection under existing laws.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-pits-more-than-100-ai-agents-against-each-other-to-find-windows-vulnerabilities/](https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-pits-more-than-100-ai-agents-against-each-other-to-find-windows-vulnerabilities/)

[Microsoft pits more than 100 AI agents against each other to find Windows vulnerabilities](https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-pits-more-than-100-ai-agents-against-each-other-to-find-windows-vulnerabilities/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/ten-chinese-firms-including-bytedance-reportedly-get-us-clearance-for-ai-chips-theyre-not-allowed-to-accept/](https://the-decoder.com/ten-chinese-firms-including-bytedance-reportedly-get-us-clearance-for-ai-chips-theyre-not-allowed-to-accept/)

[Ten Chinese firms including ByteDance reportedly get US clearance for AI chips they're not allowed to accept](https://the-decoder.com/ten-chinese-firms-including-bytedance-reportedly-get-us-clearance-for-ai-chips-theyre-not-allowed-to-accept/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/13/1137203/ai-chatbots-are-giving-out-peoples-real-phone-numbers/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/13/1137203/ai-chatbots-are-giving-out-peoples-real-phone-numbers/)

[AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/13/1137203/ai-chatbots-are-giving-out-peoples-real-phone-numbers/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/chatgpts-web-traffic-share-dropped-from-78-to-54-in-one-year-as-gemini-quietly-tripled-its-reach/](https://the-decoder.com/chatgpts-web-traffic-share-dropped-from-78-to-54-in-one-year-as-gemini-quietly-tripled-its-reach/)

[ChatGPT's web traffic share dropped from 78% to 54% in one year as Gemini quietly tripled its reach](https://the-decoder.com/chatgpts-web-traffic-share-dropped-from-78-to-54-in-one-year-as-gemini-quietly-tripled-its-reach/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/14/1137161/ai-porn-nonconsensual-deepfakes-takedown-piracy-copyright/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/14/1137161/ai-porn-nonconsensual-deepfakes-takedown-piracy-copyright/)

[The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/14/1137161/ai-porn-nonconsensual-deepfakes-takedown-piracy-copyright/)

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