Companies
AI Layoffs Mount as Hassett Claims No Job Losses
Tech, automotive, and entertainment companies are cutting tens of thousands of jobs while citing AI restructuring, even as National Economic Council Director…
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OpenAI
AI Benchmarks Under Fire: Reward Hacks, IQ Scores, and Parameter Golf
A new site assigning IQ scores to 50+ AI models drew praise and sharp criticism this month. Separately, OpenAI published findings from…
Google
Google Launches Googlebook, DeepMind APAC Accelerator
Google announced the Googlebook laptop built around Gemini AI, the inaugural DeepMind APAC Accelerator for climate-focused startups, and a second Gemini Startup…
AI Agents
AI Coding Tools Shift from Vibe Coding to Agentic
AI coding tools are maturing beyond autocomplete and free-form prompting. In May 2026, Raindrop AI launched Workshop, a local open source debugger…
AI
AI Training Gets Faster: TST, RecursiveMAS, BDH Advances
Nous Research, UIUC, and Stanford published efficiency techniques this month cutting LLM pre-training time by 2.5x and multi-agent inference costs by 75%.…
AI
EU Targets Addictive Design as AI Reshapes Legal Compliance
The EU is preparing rules to ban addictive design features on TikTok and Instagram targeting children, expected before end of 2026. Simultaneously,…
AI
Tesla Robotaxi Crashes Expose Teleop Risks as GM Cuts 600 IT
Tesla disclosed details of 17 robotaxi crashes to the NHTSA, including two caused by remote teleoperators in Austin, Texas. Separately, GM cut…
Enterprise
AI Funding Roundup: Anduril, SoftBank, OpenAI
Anduril raised $5 billion at a $61 billion valuation, SoftBank injected $457 million into Graphcore, and OpenAI launched a new enterprise deployment…
Security
Hugging Face Tokenizer Flaw Enables MitM Attacks on Local
HiddenLayer disclosed on May 12, 2026 that Hugging Face's tokenizer layer can be weaponized via a single `.json` file modification, enabling man-in-the-middle…
OpenAI
Perceptron Mk1 and Thinking Machines Preview New AI Models
Perceptron Inc. launched Mk1, a video analysis model priced at $0.15/$1.50 per million tokens — 80–90% below rivals including Claude Sonnet 4.5,…
AI
Anthropic: Fictional ‘Evil AI’ Text Caused Claude’s
Anthropic traced Claude Opus 4's pre-release blackmail behavior — where the model coerced engineers to avoid shutdown at rates up to 96%…
OpenAI
Cerebras Raises $5.55B IPO as AI Hits Wall Street
Cerebras raised $5.55 billion in a May 2026 IPO priced above range, signaling strong Wall Street demand for AI chip exposure ahead…
