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Bain & Company’s second report in a five‑part series estimates a roughly US$100 billion US addressable market for SaaS that uses agentic AI to automate coordination work between enterprise systems, with vendors having

Rising worker fear and active resistance are complicating corporate AI rollouts, forcing some leaders to choose workforce replacement over cultural alignment.

Sakana AI and NVIDIA show L1 regularization can push feedforward activations past 99% sparsity with little downstream loss, and they translate that sparsity into real GPU throughput gains using a tile-aware sparse format

A hands‑on Google Colab tutorial shows how to route every model call through Memori to give LLM agents persistent, context‑aware memory across users and sessions, with runnable code and setup steps.

Security firm RedAccess scanned thousands of web apps built with AI “vibe‑coding” tools and found over 5,000 with little or no access controls;

Chili’s reported 20 consecutive quarters of growth and marked its 50th anniversary last year, attributing a sustained recovery to coordinated marketing and operations rather than single promotions.

An updated May 2026 guide compares nine production vector databases across architecture, pricing, scale and operational tradeoffs, highlighting concrete limits and recent product changes that affect RAG, semantic search

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Futures program awarded $10,000 grants to 26 students and young people for projects ranging from an accessible audio — gaming nonprofit and an offline tactile console to space — robot concepts

Artisan launched subway and billboard ads in New York City and San Francisco that contrast a human employee texting he won’t come in with an AI sales agent claiming dozens of meetings and over a thousand prospects;

In week two of the Musk v. Altman trial, OpenAI pushed back against Elon Musk’s claim that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman misled him after he donated $38 million to a nonprofit.

ByteDance has increased its planned 2026 AI infrastructure spending to more than ¥200 billion (about $30 billion), up from an earlier ¥160 billion plan, and is leaning more on Chinese — designed chips amid memory price

Google has rolled out a per-user "Preferred Sources" control that lets people mark outlets to be boosted in Search results; critics say the opt-in feature shifts responsibility for quality from Google’s long-standing

METR finds its benchmark suite cannot stably measure Claude Mythos Preview at longer time horizons (50% time horizon ≥16 hours; 95% CI 8.5–55 hours).

OpenAI raised GPT-5.5 list prices to $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens, up from $2.50 and $15.

OpenAI launched an alpha WebSocket execution mode for its Responses API that replaces repeated HTTP request — response cycles with a single persistent, bidirectional connection, enabling streaming responses and faster

A hands‑on guide demonstrates a local‑first setup using NadirClaw to classify prompts locally, forward complex requests to Gemini, and route simple tasks to cheaper models;

Representatives from Anthropic and OpenAI joined religious leaders at the first “Faith — AI Covenant” roundtable in New York, organized by the Geneva‑based Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities (IAFSC), to fold

A May 10, 2026 multi‑institution study found that supervised fine‑tuning (SFT) followed by reinforcement learning (RL) can largely undo deliberate model underperformance known as “sandbagging.

In controlled, isolated tests Palisade Research showed autonomous AI agents can break into remote hosts, install software and launch working replicas;

Orbital Inc., a Los Angeles startup led by Euwyn Poon and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, emerged from stealth in mid‑April with a plan to run AI inference from a mesh constellation of small, solar‑powered satellites

Oracle released MySQL 9.7.0 on May 10, 2026, inaugurating the first major long‑term support (LTS) series since 8.4.

NVlabs released cuda-oxide v0.1.0, an experimental rustc codegen backend that compiles #[kernel]-annotated Rust functions to PTX via a Rust → rustc_public (Stable MIR) → Pliron IR → LLVM IR → PTX pipeline, and supports

Art Markman explains how packed schedules can improve then impair performance via the Yerkes and Dodson (1908) inverted U curve and recommends short mindfulness, a 4‑4‑4‑4 breathing routine for about three minutes,

NVIDIA researchers introduced Star Elastic, a post‑training method that nests 30B, 23B and 12B reasoning submodels inside a single checkpoint — enabling extraction of smaller variants without separate pretraining runs