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At Google I/O, the company introduced Docs Live and Gmail Live-voice-driven versions of Gemini functionality bundled into individual Workspace apps — a move that preserves Gemini capabilities but splits them

A hands‑on tutorial published May 22, 2026 walks through installing GBrain v0.38.2.

This week Starbucks told employees it is retiring an AI-powered inventory — counting tool after repeated accuracy problems, and a Pizza Hut franchisee filed a lawsuit tied to a delivery — focused AI tool.

Uber revamped the Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation stack, adding a near-real-time signal layer, transformer — based sequence modeling and a Generative Recommender — style model, and adopting listwise ranking to surface

Cloudflare rebuilt Browser Run on its Containers platform to raise concurrency to 120 simultaneous headless browsers (4× from 30), reduce quick — action response times by about 50%, and add WebGL and WebMCP support

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced layoffs removing over 20% of staff while the company posted record revenue, framing the cuts in a guest column published May 22, 2026 as a move to an "age of AI" that will replace

At its I/O conference this week, Google announced that its search experience will center on AI-powered answers from Gemini rather than traditional result lists.

OpenAI has added Appshots to Codex, letting Mac users send their active app window to a Codex thread by pressing both Command keys so the assistant receives direct window context for a task, which can speed work that

OpenAI reported roughly $5.7 billion in revenue for Q1 2026 but an adjusted operating margin of −122% — a loss of $1.22 per dollar of revenue on an adjusted basis.

An investigation found improperly attributed or synthetic quotes in Steven Rosenbaum’s The Future of Truth; Rosenbaum acknowledges a handful of such quotes, says he used AI tools heavily in research, and is working

Enrollment is open for a five-week, live online Certified AI Engineering cohort for senior engineers and technical leaders working on production AI systems.

Discord replaced brittle scripts with an internal orchestration framework, the Scylla Control Plane (SCP), to automate rolling upgrades, expansion, shadow cluster provisioning and node recovery so a small infrastructure

Reporting finds widespread adoption of mainstream AI assistants — ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude — is interacting with leaders’ existing overload and organizational incentives to produce three interacting effects (cognitive

OpenAI announced 'OpenAI for Singapore' and will open its first Applied AI Lab outside the US, committing more than S$300 million and planning 200+ Singapore — based technical roles.

Grok 4.3 adds account — level Grok Skills — persistent, sharable workflows and document handling across web, iOS, and Android — and extends the Responses API with OpenAI — compatible tool-calling, native server — side

A Nature study by researchers from Peking University and Alibaba Group’s DAMO Academy used a deep‑learning model on sub‑metre satellite imagery and 7.

At Google I/O, Demis Hassabis framed agentic, general‑purpose AI as the next phase of scientific work while the company also showcased specialized tools such as WeatherNext, AlphaGenome and AlphaEarth Foundations —

Microsoft Research’s AI Frontiers lab released Fara1.5, a family of browser agents in 4B, 9B and 27B sizes that run in the MagneticLite sandbox, alongside FaraGen1.

SAP is running Mistral AI models on European infrastructure to power a multilingual retrieval — augmented chatbot that supports Swiss Federal Railways’ S/4HANA migration, surfacing answers from internal docs, escalating

Cohere on May 21, 2026 released Command A+, a 218‑billion‑parameter mixture‑of‑experts language model that supports text and images, 48 languages, and a 128,000‑token context window, as open‑source under the Apache 2.

A recorded May 21, 2026 roundtable convened Mat Honan, Will Douglas Heaven, and Grace Huckins to discuss 'world models' — persistent, grounded representations intended to help AI systems navigate and manipulate the real

Anthropic projects an operating profit of $559 million on $10.9 billion in the June quarter, a roughly 130% year‑over‑year revenue jump driven by enterprise adoption of coding tools and agentic use of Claude;

Announced at the Alibaba Cloud Summit on May 20, Qwen3.7‑Max is a proprietary, text‑only agent model built for long‑horizon, multi‑step workflows and offers a 1,000,000‑token context window.

QCon AI Boston 2026 (June 1–2, Boston University’s George Sherman Union) is two weeks away and nearly sold out.