Saturday, 23 May 2026
Welcome to today's roundup of the most interesting developments in AI and technology.
Top Stories
AI systems solve Erdős problems via hours-long reasoning processes and generate functional code autonomously as gradient descent on neural networks continues improving without plateau · Digg
Observers note computers are programming themselves amid bubble debate.
Read moreFerrari is using IBM’s AI to create F1 superfans
IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.
Read moreElon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth)
Elon Muks's xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers. What happened to the "solar-electric economy" he promised?
Read moreMatthew Barnett posts analysis of Eliezer Yudkowsky's calibration on AI doom predictions centered on a 2016 statement about Turing test timelines before the end of the world · Digg
NathanpmYoung replies that the statement offers limited evidence on timelines.
Read morePieter Levels says skills features in AI coding agents are overrated and equivalent to basic text files, preferring direct instructions on tasks and methods instead · Digg
Austen Allred countered that skills enable reuse across sessions.
Read moreNiloofar Mireshghallah overhears discussion of world models and grounded video generation while resting in a Copenhagen park during burnout recovery · Digg
Nathan Lambert replies with support for her trip.
Read morePieter Levels, Dutch indie hacker and serial entrepreneur behind Remote OK and Nomad List, says he has not written code in six months · Digg
Nick Dobos reports staying hands-off from coding for months.
Read moreGitHub - earendil-works/pi: AI agent toolkit: coding agent CLI, unified LLM API, TUI & web UI libraries, Slack bot, vLLM pods
AI agent toolkit: coding agent CLI, unified LLM API, TUI & web UI libraries, Slack bot, vLLM pods - earendil-works/pi
Read moreGitHub - manaflow-ai/cmux: Ghostty-based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents
Ghostty-based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents - manaflow-ai/cmux
Read moreAI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots
People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.
Read moreGoogle goes for the glitter with disco-ball icons: ‘Are y’all sure you still want this?’
You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel home screen, says Google.
Read moreHow VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups
Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.
Read moreElizabeth Barnes, METR founder and CEO, says AI experts lack control over frontier AI risks after the Frontier Risk Report evaluated agents at Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI · Digg
METR had direct access inside the four labs for the pilot.
Read moreIndustry
Google's take on openclaw
it's Anthropic's time for the mandate of heaven
Read moreResearch & Products
Introducing Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence
Today, we’re excited to introduce Muse Spark, the first in the Muse family of models developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs. Muse Spark is a natively multimodal reasoning model with support for tool-use, visual chain of thought, and multi-agent orchestration.
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