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Uber has imposed a $1,500 monthly cap on AI spending per employee and per agentic coding tool after its CTO said the company spent its annual AI budget in about four months;

On June 2, 2026 Microsoft unveiled ASSERT (Adaptive Spec‑driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing), an open‑source framework that turns plain‑language goals and policies into generated test scenarios, runs

NVIDIA unveiled the RTX Spark superchip at Computex — a roughly 1‑petaflop PC CPU designed to run local AI agents and LLMs on Windows laptops and desktops, with major OEMs pledging fall systems and Microsoft

MIT researchers have developed the RLCR method, which allows AI models to express uncertainty, significantly improving the reliability of their answers and eliminating 'hallucinations' without sacrificing performance.

The Replicate platform has released Agent Skills — a set of instructions for coding assistants, designed to optimize interaction with Replicate AI models in tasks of searching, comparing, executing, and prompting.

Microsoft released the Agent Control Specification (ACS), an open-source policy format and SDK that lets development, compliance, and security teams define portable rules for what AI agents may do, must not do, when

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has rolled out a community‑submitted website mapping U.S.

SoftBank Group said on May 30, 2026 it will invest up to €75 billion (about $87 billion) to develop and operate as much as 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity in France, starting with a first phase that will

Gemini Spark, unveiled at Google’s annual developer conference in May, is an always — on, cloud — hosted agentic assistant that runs on virtual machines and integrates with Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets and Slides

A new wave of alternative browsers in 2026 emphasizes AI-powered assistance, privacy — first features and browser — native automation, promising agentic tasks, deeper session access and novel monetization models that aim

Cognition closed a $1 billion funding round that values the two‑year‑old startup at $26 billion and said Devin, its flagship AI coding agent, now generates 89% of the code committed by its engineering organization

A regularly updated, living AI glossary assembles multiple expert definitions and contrasts for contested terms — AGI, AI agents, API endpoints, chain‑of‑thought and coding agents — to help builders navigate inconsistent

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At I/O 2026 Google introduced “audio glasses,” wearable frames that accept natural spoken commands to run Google apps and services — including Gemini — and will pair with Android and iOS phones.

Spotify will let authors generate narrated audiobooks using ElevenLabs voice models inside Spotify for Authors; a June invite‑only beta supports English and does not require exclusive distribution to Spotify.

Spotify is releasing Studio by Spotify Labs as a desktop research preview in more than 20 markets, letting select users aged 18+ generate private, AI-built podcasts that can draw on personal data and a web‑browsing

Hark closed a $700 million Series A at a $6 billion post‑money valuation to fund multimodal model development, hardware design and compute capacity for a personal AI platform;

On May 21, 2026 President Donald Trump postponed signing an executive order that would have required federal agencies to evaluate advanced AI models before public release, saying he disliked parts of the language and did

The Path, founded by former Calm employees and the creators of the Mental app, closed a $14.

OpenAI will attach C2PA provenance metadata and embed Google’s SynthID invisible watermark in images produced by its models, and it is previewing a public verification tool that checks both signals to confirm OpenAI

At Google I/O, Google introduced Gemini Spark, an agentic personal assistant built on Gemini base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity that runs on dedicated Google Cloud VMs and integrates directly

At Google I/O, Google introduced Universal Cart — a cross‑service shopping hub-and announced upgrades to the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) and Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) to enable agent — assisted payments

On May 18, 2026, Anthropic announced it has acquired Stainless, a New York startup that automates SDK generation.

Graduates at multiple U.S. commencements booed speakers who discussed artificial intelligence, highlighting young people’s anxieties about jobs and economic inequality.