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According to reporting by the Financial Times, Amazon has begun rolling out an internal AI product called MeshClaw that lets employees create agents which can interact with workplace apps and automate tasks. The FT and…
Court documents disclosed during Elon Musk's lawsuit show that a January 2023 planning memo projected a **$92 billion** return on Microsoft's cumulative **$13 billion** investment in OpenAI, according to reporting by…
According to Variety, Vertigo Films and Federation Studios have unveiled **amersia**, a new AI-native production company, and introduced **Woven**, an internal production technology used to create the animated feature…
Alphabet's Google said in a threat intelligence report that state-sponsored hacking groups from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the People's Republic of China have demonstrated "significant…
Seeking Alpha reports that **DigitalOcean** is experiencing a major AI-driven growth inflection, with management guiding for revenue growth to double by next year and raising full-year guidance to **27% revenue growth**…
According to the Economic Times, National Health Authority CEO Dr Sunil Kumar Barnwal said, "The next phase of growth in healthcare will be driven by AI and its use across multiple touchpoints of care to empower the…
The Information reports that **OpenAI** and **Microsoft** agreed to cap total revenue-sharing payments at **$38 billion**. The same reporting states the renegotiated deal could result in **$97 billion** in savings for…
Reporting by Asiae, ChosunBiz, DigitalToday and SE Daily states that **LG Uplus** has reached an agreement with Malaysian carrier **Maxis** to commercially launch the AI call assistant **ixi-O** in Malaysia, following a…
Business Insider reports that ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski said the company is adding an engineer to each non-technical team. Staniszewski said, "Our people team, our go-to-market team, our legal team will have an…
According to The Register, Japan's prime minister Sanae Takaichi has ordered a cabinet-level cybersecurity review in response to Anthropic's bug-hunting model `Mythos`. The Register reports that in a Tuesday cabinet…
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking concepts for **autonomous, containerized drone systems** that can launch, recover, sustain, and manage networked…
Per a PR Newswire release, L'Oreal has launched the **2026 Big Bang Beauty Tech Innovation Program** for startups across South Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa (SAPMENA). The programme, entering its third…
Walter Goodwin, founder of UK startup Fractile, is the subject of a profile in Sifted that traces his path from a PhD pivot to a stint in venture capital. According to Sifted, Fractile is developing AI accelerator chips…
The Sifted op-ed reports Europe expects to bring **Magne**, described as its most powerful quantum computer, online later this year; the project is built by **Microsoft** and **Atom Computing** and backed by **€80m**…
Sifted reports that several European AI startups have hired senior engineers and leaders from Big Tech, with the most prominent move being Apple's former AI chief John Giannandrea joining UK materials-focused startup…
According to reporting by Chosun Ilbo and Seoul Economic Daily, Kim Yong-beom, presidential chief of staff for policy, proposed a tentative "National Dividend" to channel excess profits from the AI and semiconductor…
The European Commission formally proposed its European Technological Sovereignty Package on **June 3, 2026**, after delaying it from an originally reported May 27 target (European Commission; CNBC). The centerpiece…
A new working paper, "Deep Research on a Loop: Using AI Agents to Construct Economic Datasets" (NBER working paper W35188; SSRN abstract 6502499) proposes **DRIL**, a methodology that uses AI agents to assemble datasets…
Former OpenAI chief scientist **Ilya Sutskever** testified he spent about a year assembling evidence that CEO **Sam Altman** displayed a "consistent pattern of lying," Reuters reported on May 11. Reuters says Sutskever…
**TCI Fund Management** sharply reduced a long-standing **Microsoft** position, cutting $8 billion from its stake. The headline links the sale to `AI` disruption that is rewriting the mega-cap tech playbook and frames…
Atos announced in a Globe Newswire press release that it has signed a Master Collaboration Agreement with Backbase to accelerate AI-native transformation for financial institutions in regulated markets. The agreement,…
According to the arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.10293 (submitted 11 May 2026), Maris F. L. Galesloot et al. propose **Robust Probabilistic Shielding**, a method that integrates shielding with offline reinforcement learning.…
Per the arXiv paper, "Step Rejection Fine-Tuning: A Practical Distillation Recipe" (submitted May 11, 2026), the authors propose Step Rejection Fine-Tuning (`SRFT`) to leverage unresolved trajectories that standard…
According to an arXiv preprint (arXiv:2605.10575) submitted May 11, 2026, the paper introduces "Acceptance Cards": an evaluation protocol, documentation object, executable audit package, and claim-specific evidential…
The arXiv paper "Why Low-Resource NLP Needs More Than Cross-Lingual Transfer: Lessons Learned from Luxembourgish," submitted 11 May 2026 by Fred Philippy et al., synthesizes prior work and new data about Luxembourgish.…
According to the arXiv submission (arXiv:2605.10816, submitted 11 May 2026), Avik Kar and six coauthors propose a reward-centric formulation for reinforcement learning in non-Markovian decision processes (NMDPs). The…
Per the arXiv paper (arXiv:2503.06047, revised 9 May 2026), **DSGBench** is a benchmark suite that evaluates LLM-based agents across **six** complex strategic games using a fine-grained scoring system with **five**…
According to the arXiv paper arXiv:2605.10291, entrepreneurial entry on Product Hunt rose sharply after the public release of `ChatGPT-3.5` (submitted May 11, 2026). The paper reports the increase was driven…
Per the arXiv preprint, the paper titled **SLIM: Sparse Latent Steering for Interpretable and Property-Directed LLM-Based Molecular Editing** (submitted May 11, 2026) proposes **SLIM** (`SLIM`), a plug-and-play…
An arXiv paper titled DeepRefine, submitted on May 11 2026 by Haoyu Huang and eight coauthors, proposes an LLM-based reasoning model for refining agent-compiled knowledge bases, according to the arXiv abstract. The…
The arXiv preprint "DataMaster: Towards Autonomous Data Engineering for Machine Learning," submitted on 11 May 2026 by Yaxin Du et al., proposes an autonomous data-agent framework that optimizes only the data pipeline…
According to an arXiv paper by Gabriel Garcia (arXiv:2605.10799), common "corruption" protocols used to evaluate chain-of-thought (CoT) faithfulness systematically confound format with computation. The paper reports…
Per the arXiv paper, the authors entered the Fifth UNLP shared task on multi-domain Ukrainian document understanding and built a retrieval-augmented pipeline. According to the paper, the system uses `Qwen3-Embedding-8B`…
According to the arXiv preprint, authors led by David F. Ramirez introduce **SMART-HC-VQA**, a Sentinel-2 based visual question answering dataset derived from the **IARPA SMART Heavy Construction** annotations…
AP reporting in The Economic Times says **SoftBank** is expected to report a net profit of **236 billion yen** for the January-March quarter, with gains tied to its stake in **OpenAI**, whose valuation reached **$840…
IREN Ltd is offering **$2 billion** of convertible senior notes in two $1 billion tranches to fund data center expansion, AI infrastructure and related capital needs, according to CryptoBriefing and Ventureburn. The…
Gizmodo reports that a Commerce Department page announcing new agreements between the Department of Commerce's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) and Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI is missing from the…
Canada's AI minister Evan Solomon and TELUS announced a three-site AI data centre cluster in British Columbia on May 11, 2026, the Canadian Press reports. The project covers two Vancouver sites and an expansion in…
According to the first-quarter AI diffusion report published May 12 by Microsoft , **Korea **s generative AI usage rate among the working-age population reached **37.1%** in Q1 2026, a **6.4 percentage-point** increase…
Bloomberg reported that SoftBank founder **Masayoshi Son** has held talks with French President **Emmanuel Macron** about an ambitious **AI data center** project in **France**, and that Son has floated the possibility…
CrowdfundInsider reports that **Nubank** executives described how an AI-driven underwriting framework is widening credit access while keeping portfolio metrics stable. Per CrowdfundInsider, the company detailed a…
According to a Seeking Alpha analysis, the First Trust Nasdaq Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ETF (ROBT) is an equal-weighted fund holding **138** stocks and is criticised for lacking a coherent AI thesis. The…
San Diego edge-AI vendor **Kneron** used a May 12, 2026 press release to warn that the AI industry is underestimating a coming inference infrastructure bottleneck, arguing the harder challenge is running AI…
**Microsoft** is still spoofing **Google**'s homepage inside **Bing** on **Edge**, 1.5 years after the initial backlash, while the company is paying **$1 million** for users. Users are growing increasingly frustrated…
The brief outlines best practices for `privacy-first` deployment of **AI** in enterprise environments and notes that organizations increasingly use these tools for document analysis, workflow automation, reporting, and…
The Associated Press reports a South Korean startup is recording hotel and other workers with body cameras to capture their motions for training robot control systems. AP describes **David Park**, a worker at **Lotte…
The guide examines failure points when AI inference reaches **1M** requests per day, diagnosing bottlenecks in scaling, latency, infrastructure, and cost. It presents technical and operational remedies to recover…
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Economic Letter reports that **AI pricing**, the use of machine learning algorithms to set or adjust prices, has grown rapidly and spread across many sectors, according to…
A scoping review examines AI-based automation for **medication reconciliation** (`MedRec`). The background states that `MedRec` can improve patient safety by enhancing the continuity of medication information across…
The Verge reports that OpenAI is launching **Daybreak**, an initiative that combines `GPT-5.5-Cyber` and **Codex Security** to detect and patch software vulnerabilities. The Verge says Daybreak uses a Codex Security…
