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Mira Murati, who left her role as OpenAI chief technology officer in 2024 to co‑found Thinking Machines Lab, previewed new “interaction models” that use camera and microphone inputs to interpret pauses, interruptions

After analyzing more than one million messages collected since 2024, Elastic’s Field Technology team published an inaugural AI Year in Review on May 14, 2026.

Toto 2.0, an open-weight family of time-series forecasting foundation models spanning five sizes from 4 million to 2.5 billion parameters, was released on Hugging Face with an accompanying distributed — training library.

Poetiq reported that its Meta‑System automatically constructed and optimized an inference harness for LiveCodeBench Pro (LCB Pro) using only Gemini 3.

Similarweb’s May 2026 site-by-site snapshot shows ChatGPT’s share of direct browser visits fell from 77.6% to 53.7% year-on-year, while Google Gemini rose to 26.

Photorealistic AI images of a colorful Royal Oak-style wristwatch flooded Instagram before the confirmed Audemars Piguet x Swatch collaboration launched as the Royal Pop pocket — watch collection, shaping expectations

Nicole Replogle's May 13, 2026 review evaluates six AI agent builder platforms for teams and developers, concludes agents are ready to run sustained, organization‑wide workflows, and advises choosing tools based

A May 14, 2026 hands — on comparison tested how Zapier and Composio let AI agents access external apps without exposing raw credentials.

Export licenses authorize roughly ten Chinese companies — including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and JD.

A hands — on tutorial shows how to use CuPy as a GPU-accelerated alternative to NumPy, with examples that demonstrate setup, benchmarking, custom CUDA kernels and profiling techniques for high-performance Python

Cline has extracted its internal agent harness into @cline/sdk, an open-source TypeScript runtime now powering its CLI and Kanban and being used to migrate VS Code and JetBrains extensions.

Meta plans to cut about 10 percent of its workforce — nearly 8,000 people — on Wednesday, May 20.

60% of evaluated AI Scribe systems mixed up prescribed drugs in patient notes, auditors say

A Meta engineer’s internal post criticizing mandatory laptop monitoring for AI training went viral inside the company, reportedly reaching nearly 20,000 employees and helping to mobilize a petition demanding an end

Starting June 15, Anthropic will move SDK, command — line and third — party Claude requests onto a separate monthly programmatic credit that is consumed at full API rates rather than the subscription’s subsidized

U.S. officials said they would seek a dedicated AI communication channel with China after President Donald Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, aiming to reduce the risk that fast-developing AI

On May 12, 2026 Microsoft said its new Multi‑Model Agentic Scanning Harness (MDASH) automatically discovered 16 Windows CVEs, including four critical remote‑code‑execution flaws in tcpip.

Alibaba’s technical report on Qwen‑Image‑2.0 describes three coordinated efficiency changes: a 16× spatial downsampling VAE with skip connections and early training pressure, transformer adjustments to limit runaway

At QCon San Francisco, Amit Navindgi of Zoox Intelligence described a production effort to replace fragmented developer docs and tooling with an internal AI-first platform called Cortex, which uses RAG, multimodal LLMs

Researchers disclosed Fragnesia, a Linux kernel vulnerability that corrupts the page cache for read-only files, allowing arbitrary writes and enabling reliable local privilege escalation and potential container escapes.

Tor Myhren revisited his decade at Apple, discussing the May 2024 iPad Pro spot “Crush,” which was pulled about 48 hours after release, and warned that faster turnarounds and AI will reshape marketing.

Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) says frontier models are advancing faster than its latest forecasts: After halving its estimated AI cyber capability doubling time from eight months to about 4.

UK robotics firm Humanoid will embed its humanoid robots into Schaeffler production lines, starting staged factory trials in Germany between December 2026 and June 2027, and projects a potential rollout of roughly

Applied Materials is backing EPIC with a roughly $5 billion investment — described as the largest U.S.