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Multimodal AI Accelerates: Five Models Redefine Vision and Video
ByteDance Research released Lance, a 3B-parameter open-source model handling image and video generation and editing in…
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AI Automation Cuts 20,000+ Auto Jobs as Meta Trims 8,000
Ford, GM, and Stellantis have cut more than 20,000 U.S. salaried jobs — 19% of their…
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AI Reasoning Gets Faster, Smarter, and Cheaper in 2026
Four research papers published in May 2026 advance AI reasoning efficiency and reliability through latent think…
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Poppy Launches Proactive AI Assistant for Daily Life
Poppy, a new AI assistant app from former Humane engineer Sai Kambampati, launched this week combining…
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Multimodal AI Shifts from Chat to Real-Time Interaction
Thinking Machines Lab previewed real-time multimodal interaction models built by Mira Murati's team, while Perceptron launched…
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Recursive Language Models Win Long-Context Benchmarks
Recursive Language Models are outperforming conventional agentic architectures on long-context benchmarks by passing context between reasoning…
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AGI Milestones in 2026: Benchmarks, Reasoning, and the Gaps
In 2026, Recursive Language Models are topping long-context benchmarks with a shared-context architecture, a contested AI…
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AI Training Gets 2.5x Faster With New Methods
Researchers at UIUC, Stanford, and Nous Research published methods in May 2026 that cut AI training…
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Anduril Raises $5B at $61B as AI Funding Surges
Anduril closed a $5 billion Series H at a $61 billion valuation on May 13, 2026,…
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Poppy Launches Proactive AI Assistant for Calendar, Email
Poppy, a new iOS app from Second Nature Computing, launches with a proactive AI assistant that…
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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…
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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,…