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Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 5th, 2026. Anthropic published a landmark report revealing that over 80% of its merged code was Claude-authored as of May — with engineers pushing 8 times more code per day than in 2024 — and laid out the recursive self-improvement scenario where each new version of Claude could be built by the version before it without any human involvement,...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of June 4th, 2026. Ideogram open-sourced its 4.0 model — taking the top spot among open-weight image models and beating top rivals in professional designer testing — while Reve 2.0 jumped to number two overall on the image leaderboard, with both models pushing the same idea: instead of regenerating from scratch, users edit specific regions, typography, a...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 3rd, 2026. Microsoft used Build 2026 to make its clearest statement yet that it's done being OpenAI's distribution partner — releasing seven new in-house MAI models, launching Scout, its first always-on agent built on OpenClaw that lives in Teams and proactively schedules meetings and preps materials, revealing Project Solara as an up...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 2nd, 2026. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang opened COMPUTEX in Taiwan by declaring "Agentic AI has arrived" — then backed it up with a full ecosystem reveal including the RTX Spark superchip for personal AI agents on Windows laptops, the Vera CPU built for agents that runs 1.8x faster than rivals and is already used by Anthropic, OpenAI, and...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 1st, 2026. German startup MicroAGI launched Shift in New York City — a free apartment cleaning service where the catch is a cleaner wearing a head-mounted camera filming every move, with the footage sold to AI robotics labs and used in their own research, already paying workers $20 an hour across the world with over $5 million paid out in Q1...

Today we're going hands-on with Gemini Spark — Google's new 24/7 agentic assistant that runs in the cloud so you never have to leave your laptop open. A TechCrunch reporter put it through five real-world tasks: finding drugstore deals, building a packing list, hunting for summer camps, summarizing newsletters, and tracking a price drop. The verdict? Useful but unpolished — it found a real...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of May 29th, 2026. Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.8 — beating GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on agentic coding, computer use, financial analysis, and Humanity's Last Exam — while simultaneously closing a $65 billion raise that pushed its valuation to $965 billion, surpassing OpenAI for the first time in the company's history, with a Mythos-class...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of May 28th, 2026. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's Biohub released Evolutionary Scale Models — an open-source protein world model trained on 2.8 billion sequences that predicts structure, designs novel proteins, and already hit 36 to 88% success rates against five cancer and immune disease targets, outperforming AlphaFold and putting drug di...

Today we're going deep with one of the most important voices in AI right now. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says AGI is on track for 2030 — give or take a year — but a few things remain unsolved: world physics, memory, consistency, and continual learning. He maps out which diseases AI will crack first — oncology and immunology leading the way — and shares what he personally plans to do af...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 26th, 2026. Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas — a nearly 42,000-word encyclical sent to the Catholic Church’s 1.4 billion members — warning that AI is never neutral, that a handful of transnational companies already surpass the capacity of most governments, and that lethal decisions must never be delegated to an algorithm, with Anthropic...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of May 25th, 2026. One day after OpenAI made headlines for disproving an 80-year math theory, Google DeepMind came back with AlphaProof Nexus — quietly solving nine open Erdős problems at a few hundred dollars each, including two that had stumped mathematicians for over 56 years, using a machine-verified proof system that generates, checks, and repea...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of May 22nd, 2026. Google CEO Sundar Pichai sat down for an exclusive interview following I/O, making the case that today's most advanced AI will look as primitive as a flip phone within three years — with agents running 24/7 across every device, engineers managing teams of AI rather than writing code, and YouTube staying creator-first even as Ge...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 21st, 2026. OpenAI announced that an internal general-purpose reasoning model autonomously disproved an 80-year-old mathematical theory tied to Paul Erdős’ famous 1946 unit distance problem — verified by some of the world’s top mathematicians and accomplished without any math-specific training, with Sam Altman calling it a leading indicator of AI...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 20th, 2026. Google I/O was a showcase with one clear message — Gemini is becoming the agentic engine behind every Google product, with Gemini Omni turning any input into video output, Gemini 3.5 Flash hitting near-frontier benchmarks at four times the speed and half the cost, Gemini Spark running as a 24/7 personal agent across Workspace and Chrom...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 19th, 2026. After three weeks of private texts, billionaire testimony, and $100 billion in claims, Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft was unanimously dismissed — not on the merits, but because the jury found Musk waited too long to sue, with Musk already vowing to appeal and calling the outcome a calendar technicality rather than a v...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 18th, 2026. Conceptual artist SHL0MS posted a real Claude Monet painting on X and told people he generated it with AI — thousands responded calling it emotionless, sloppy, and technically inferior, confidently tearing apart one of the most celebrated impressionist works in history, exposing how the word “AI” alone now triggers reflexive hostility...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 15th, 2026. OpenAI rolled out Codex inside the ChatGPT iOS app, letting developers manage long-running AI coding agents from their phone — approving decisions, starting new tasks, and reviewing code changes while the agent grinds away back at the desk, directly competing with Anthropic’s own Dispatch feature that launched in March. Bloomberg repor...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 14th, 2026. Ramp’s latest AI spend index — tracking corporate card payments from over 50,000 U.S. businesses — shows Anthropic surpassing OpenAI in paid business adoption for the first time, with Claude quadrupling its enterprise usage in a year while OpenAI leveled off, validating exactly the “code red” alarm OpenAI’s own leadership sounded inter...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of May 13th, 2026. Google unveiled Gemini Intelligence — a new cross-device AI platform for Android — alongside a new line of Googlebook laptops built with Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others that run Android apps, feature a Magic Pointer AI cursor, and ship this fall as the first truly Gemini-native consumer devices. Google is also in talks with SpaceX to...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 12th, 2026. Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab launched interaction models — a new type of AI that takes in voice, video, and text simultaneously in 200-millisecond chunks, responds in a streaming loop without turn-taking pauses, and runs a background reasoning model simultaneously so it never has to stop talking to think. Google’s Threat Intelli...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 11th, 2026. Google DeepMind unveiled its AI co-mathematician — a team of agents built on Gemini 3.1 that breaks math research into parallel workstreams, scores 48% on the hardest benchmark ever built for AI reasoning, and already helped an Oxford professor crack an open problem from a proof the system’s own reviewers had rejected. University of Wa...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 8th, 2026. OpenAI released three new real-time voice models led by GPT-Realtime-2 — the first voice AI that can reason at GPT-5 level while speaking, use multiple tools simultaneously, and maintain natural conversation flow without awkward pauses, jumping 15 points on benchmarks and already being deployed by Zillow, Priceline, and Deutsche Telekom...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 7th, 2026. Elon Musk — who called Anthropic “Misanthropic” just months ago — signed a deal to rent Anthropic his entire Colossus 1 supercluster, a 300-megawatt Memphis facility with over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, doubling Claude Code’s usage limits almost overnight and marking one of the most unexpected partnerships in AI history. Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Mu...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 6th, 2026. OpenAI is fast-tracking its first AI agent phone for mass production in early 2027 — a full year ahead of schedule — with MediaTek as the sole chip supplier, a dual-processor design handling vision and language simultaneously, and projected combined shipments of up to 30 million units in its first two years, raising fresh questions abou...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 5th, 2026. Oregon startup Panthalassa closed a $140 million round led by Peter Thiel for autonomous floating compute nodes that convert ocean wave energy into AI processing power — each 85-meter steel structure cooling itself with seawater, navigating using only its hull shape, and beaming results back via Starlink, with commercial deployment targ...