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NokiaPowerUser reports Google is preparing a web UI update for Gemini that introduces a new "thinking level" slider to let users select reasoning intensity, and a cleaner, productivity-focused interface. According to…
Per Microsoft message center MC1310687 and accompanying Microsoft posts, **Authoritative Sites** is a new SharePoint Online capability that lets admins mark specific sites as trusted so **Microsoft 365 Copilot** will…
Digital Health News reports that NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has launched a **GBP900m** open framework agreement to support procurement of AI across the NHS and wider public sector, with the tender notice…
Infobip published its **2026 Customer Experience (CX) Maturity Report**, and The Hindu's press distribution of the release reports **57%** of APAC brands use agentic AI. ANI's coverage of the report finds that brands in…
President Donald Trump met Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing last week, and multiple outlets reported that artificial intelligence was placed on the summit agenda (The Dispatch; Reuters; WSJ). U.S. Treasury Secretary…
Celebrities including **Taylor Swift**, **Matthew McConaughey** and **Jeremy Clarkson** have filed or secured trademark registrations that cover short voice clips, motion marks and images, reporting an attempt to use…
According to Seeking Alpha, the Vanguard Utilities ETF (VPU) is rated Buy and the article projects a **12-14%** return. Seeking Alpha reports that VPU tracks the **MSCI US Investable Market Utilities 25/50 Index**, has…
Anthropic released `Mythos Preview`, a security-focused large language model that multiple independent teams tested and used to escalate vulnerability research. Cloudflare, participating in Anthropic's Project…
**Kakao Mobility**, Korea's dominant ride-hailing and taxi app, and **HD Hyundai XiteSolution**, a major manufacturer of heavy industrial machinery, signed an MOU to build an unmanned logistics platform. The MOU covers…
At RIMS RISKWORLD, **Ashley Karg**, partner, U.S. casualty at **McGill and Partners**, said advances in artificial intelligence, data, and analytics let brokers treat each client's risk individually. Karg told Insurance…
Redis announced **Iris**, a context and memory platform for AI agents, in a May 18 blog post on redis.io and on its product site. Per Redis, Iris combines five tools - **Redis Context Retriever**, **Redis Agent…
NVIDIA began shipping its first Vera CPU systems to major AI organisations the week of May 18, 2026. According to NVIDIA's newsroom and blog, initial deliveries went to **Anthropic**, **OpenAI**, and **SpaceXAI** on…
Blackstone and Google announce a joint venture to create a U.S.-based TPU cloud that will sell data centre capacity and access to Google's Tensor Processing Units. Blackstone is committing an initial **$5 billion** in…
Standard Chartered will cut more than **15%**, or about **7,800**, of its back-office roles by **2030**, the BBC reports. According to the bank, the reductions form part of a productivity push that aims to raise income…
Aju Press reports that an undergraduate student, **Kim Min-woo**, is first author on a paper accepted for presentation at the **43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026)**. The paper, titled `Memory…
New Zealand is moving to criminalise sexualised deepfakes, with a bill scheduled for its first reading this week, The Conversation reports. The proposed amendment would make creating, sharing or selling sexually…
A federal jury in Oakland unanimously found that Elon Musk filed his suit against OpenAI too late, tossing all claims after less than two hours of deliberation, Reuters and The New York Times report. Judge Yvonne…
Circle has launched the **Circle Agent Stack**, a suite of products aimed at enabling autonomous AI agents to hold funds, discover services, and transact using **USDC**, according to Circle's blog and a BusinessWire…
HedgeCo.Net reports that investors are shifting the AI trade from narrative-driven bets to a focus on measurable revenue and execution. The article says early-stage capital flows lifted broad parts of the market,…
According to a Databricks blog post, Deutsche Börse Group developed a generative AI tool to automate a large-scale migration of Zeppelin notebooks into Databricks. The blog reports that the group's **StatistiX**…
Computer Weekly reports on Gartner findings that, in 2024, nearly all service providers profiled in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for global WAN and managed network services had started using **AI** across operations.…
Multiple leaks and APK analyses published ahead of Google I/O 2026 report a new always-on agent named **Gemini Spark** inside a redesigned **Gemini** desktop and web app. According to an APK decompilation by 9to5Google…
A federal jury in Oakland, California, unanimously rejected Elon Musk's **$150 billion** lawsuit against **OpenAI** and CEO **Sam Altman**, finding the claims were barred by the statute of limitations, The New York…
**Meta** published an internal document laying out a May 20 restructuring. The document details **Meta** is laying off **10%** of its global employees this week and planning further cuts. The restructuring is scheduled…
According to the Lowy Institute, a dashboard called Nemesis, built by Indonesian AI engineer Abil Sudarman, scanned public procurement plans and flagged high-cost items that went viral on social media, including a…
KR-Asia reports that on April 30, 2026, **Xiaohongshu** established **Dots**, a first-level AI department, via an internal letter to employees. According to KR-Asia and reporting cited from **36Kr**, Dots is organised…
CryptoBriefing reports that Tuttle Capital Management filed for a new ETF, the proposed **Magnificent 10**, which would add **Advanced Micro Devices**, **Broadcom (AVGO)**, and **Palantir (PLTR)** to the original…
Yonhap reports Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol promoted South Korea's economic fundamentals and AI capabilities to around 20 senior officials from 17 global financial firms, including BlackRock Inc., J.P. Morgan Asset…
**Samsung Electronics** and its largest labor union resumed government-led wage mediation Tuesday, entering the final day of talks as a strike deadline nears. The mediation is described as a last-ditch effort and…
**PyCon US 2026** slides condense the last six months of `LLMs` into a five-minute lightning talk. The author assembled annotated slides using the latest iteration of their **annotated presentation tool**.
BBVA has launched a conversational app inside ChatGPT for users in **Italy** and **Germany**, enabling natural-language product discovery and direct links to the bank's account, card, and savings pages, per BBVA's…
A federal jury in Oakland unanimously found that Elon Musk filed his claims against **OpenAI** and **Sam Altman** after the statute of limitations had expired, the New York Times and BBC report. The nine-member jury…
UploadVR reports that **WorldLens VR** has introduced an AI-powered 3D Street View mode on **Quest** that adds subtle depth to **Google Street View** panoramas. The feature applies a depth layer that activates after the…
The Nature article published May 19, 2026 evaluates machine learning approaches for health insurance underwriting using a benchmark dataset of **59,381** applicants. The paper compares three ensemble models, `Random…
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter finds that U.S. business spending related to artificial intelligence grew substantially in 2025 among publicly traded firms. According to BEA data cited in the…
The IrishJobs Hiring Trends Update found that **47%** of employers have reduced entry and graduate-level roles, citing rising labour costs and increased AI adoption, the report shows. The survey also found **66%** of…
According to Texas NTS's website and a GlobeNewswire press release distributed via Yahoo Finance, Texas NTS launched an AI-driven foreclosure intelligence platform that monitors all **254** Texas county clerk sites. The…
Prolonged, intensive chatbot use can amplify and sustain delusional thinking in some users, a phenomenon described in public reporting as "AI psychosis," ABC News reports. ABC describes a case in which a 38-year-old…
CryptoBriefing reports that **5,000 clients** now use Dell's AI servers built on **Nvidia** chips. CryptoBriefing describes the effort as centered on the **Dell AI Factory with Nvidia**, an integrated stack that bundles…
CNBC reports that **Alphabet**'s stock has risen about **140%** over the past year as investors repriced the company as an AI leader, and Google I/O begins as a focal point for that narrative. CNBC identifies investor…
**AI workloads** are shifting from training to inference, and current cloud infrastructure is struggling to keep pace. Modern **AI clouds** must evolve to support inference-scale deployments and changing operational…
Per a PR Newswire release and company materials, **PolyAI** opened its **Agentic Dialog Platform** to any builder on May 18, 2026, offering **two months** of free access to the platform (PR Newswire; PolyAI website).…
A team of MIT students built a wearable system called "Human Operator" that pairs Anthropic's `Claude` with computer vision and electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) to guide a user's fingers and wrist in real time,…
Bloomberg reported that Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, asked employees earlier this year to submit their personal US tax returns as training data for the `Grok` chatbot, offering **$420** per submission as an incentive.…
According to a GlobeNewswire press release distributed May 18, 2026 and reposted by Business Insider and The Manila Times, DRC congratulated Sarah Eddy, William Savitt, and trial teams at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz…
Wisdom Ventures, led by General Partner **Bradley Horowitz**, closed an oversubscribed Fund II at **$77.7 million**, according to WSJ Pro and Citybiz. Wisdom Ventures' website and Business Insider record that the firm…
A blog post on vibhorkumar.wordpress.com argues that most AI systems are optimized for inference rather than continuity and that enterprises are starting to face a "memory" problem: models perform well within single…
According to reporting by NeuroscienceNews summarizing research from **Rutgers University**, a new study combines mathematical models, statistical mechanics, and populations of neural networks to show that **memory and…
According to a Microsoft customer case study, **Discovery Bank** built **Discovery AI** using `Azure OpenAI` in `Foundry Models` and **Azure Databricks** to deliver continuous, personalized next-best actions inside its…
**Multimodal Personalized Mobile Health Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention** pilot study tests a person-centered mobile intervention for **occupational stress management** using multimodal data and just-in-time adaptive…
