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Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das warns a social post that the recent AI boom has concentrated retirement — scale wealth in a small cohort while triggering widespread job churn and career uncertainty for many engineers.

Perplexity’s Computer now connects to Snowflake, letting teams ask natural‑language questions against enterprise tables to surface metrics and act on insights without waiting on SQL, dashboards or analyst queues.

Perplexity has released Computer for Professional Finance, a finance — focused edition that combines licensed data connectors, built — in market tools, and 35 reusable workflows to produce source — traceable memos,

Meta is rolling out an incognito option for Meta AI on WhatsApp and the standalone Meta AI app that processes sessions in a secure environment, does not save conversations, and defaults to deleting messages when a chat

Clio says it has reached $500 million in annual recurring revenue after accelerating growth tied to product changes and AI integration that began in 2023.

GitHub has updated the Copilot plugin for JetBrains IDEs to include a public‑preview Copilot CLI agent embedded in the IDE, a unified sessions view showing live and queued session status, an Ask question tool in agent

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

NVIDIA credits Codex, built on GPT‑5.5, with a tenfold improvement in end‑to‑end research workflow speed and broader engineering productivity gains.

Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter on May 17, 2026 reports Apple plans an optional iOS 27 keyboard setting that will surface Genmoji suggestions generated from a user’s photo library and commonly typed phrases.

Apple is expected to reveal a standalone Siri app at WWDC 2026 that will launch with a beta label, let users store and manage conversation history with auto‑delete options, and run on Google’s Gemini models hosted

Perplexity Computer, an autonomous agent that writes and runs code, browses the web, and connects to external services, now runs on Perplexity’s infrastructure — which completed a 2026 SOC 2 Type II attestation —

A May 17, 2026 review from researchers at Fudan University, the Shanghai Innovation Institute and the National University of Singapore organizes roughly 100 papers into a systematic framework for World Action Models

Bret Taylor’s startup Sierra closed a $950 million round led by Tiger Global and GV, taking its post‑money valuation past $15 billion and leaving the company with more than $1 billion in deployable capital.

An independent market monitor, Monitoring Analytics, reports that wholesale power on PJM rose to $136.53/MWh from $77.

Monzo redesigned its data warehouse around four explicit modeling layers, declared interface models, a Modelgen CLI, and CI-enforced standards to support more than 100 teams and over 12,000 dbt models.

Vercel Labs published Zero, an experimental systems programming language and unified toolchain whose compiler emits structured JSON diagnostics with stable codes and typed repair metadata so automated agents can more

A developer — focused hackathon produced operational AI agents built with Agent Builder, Elasticsearch, ES|QL and Elastic Workflows that automate messy workflows, run domain — standard analytics, and reveal real-world

A 64‑member consortium published SOOHAK, a 439‑problem, handwritten benchmark split into a 340‑problem research‑level Challenge and a 99‑problem Refusal set to evaluate LLMs’ deep reasoning and ability to flag unsolvable

Vapi Inc. closed a $50 million Series B led by Peak XV on May 12, bringing total funding to $72 million to accelerate its voice‑AI platform that links large language models to speech systems.

A hands‑on tutorial demonstrates an end‑to‑end SHAP workflow: Training an XGBoost regressor on the California housing dataset, wrapping predictions for SHAP compatibility, and comparing model‑aware (Tree, Exact)

Marcus Rush, founder and Team Leader of Rush Home, put a custom AI agent called Russ into daily use to score leads, send ranked morning briefs to agents, and handle calendar tasks for his eight — agent residential team

At Cloud Next '26 Google introduced GKE Agent Sandbox, a gVisor — based kernel isolation layer for running untrusted agent code at high throughput, and GKE hypercluster, a private GA control plane able to manage up

Anthropic has purchased all compute capacity at xAI’s Colossus 1 data center — roughly 300 megawatts — a deal that monetizes idle infrastructure immediately and reframes xAI as a potential provider of leased GPU

Violin is an open-source AI pipeline that automates transcription, LLM translation and synthesized speech to make video content accessible across languages while avoiding vendor lock-in.