Wednesday, 27 May 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Wednesday, 27 May 2026.
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Apollo CEO Marc Rowan argues AI's massive capital demands will outgrow venture equity and rely on private credit · Digg
Apollo manages more than $1 trillion in assets.
Read moreElevenLabs’s new music generation model can switch genres mid-track
ElevenLabs' new model will let users regenerate a section of a song without affecting rest of the track
Read moreESM project founder Alex Rives releases ESMFold2, claiming it beats AlphaFold3 on protein-protein interaction benchmarks · Digg
Lab tests validated binders targeting five therapeutic proteins.
Read moreSpark Capital's Yasmin Razavi joins the Forbes Midas List after her $75 million Anthropic investment returned $3 billion · Digg
She backed Anthropic when the startup had no revenue
Read moreAI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation
As Cognition reaches $492 in annualized revenue run rate, it more than doubled its valuation in eight months, it says.
Read moreStartup Battlefield 200 applications close today: Nominate a founder or submit your startup
Today is the final day to apply or nominate a startup for Startup Battlefield 200. Once the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. PT, the window closes on your chance to compete for $100,000 in equity-free funding, gain global visibility, connect directly with investors, and launch on the TechCrunch Disrupt s...
Read moreSOND, a sleep tech startup from Bose’s former head of sleep, exits stealth with $7M
SOND, a startup led by Bose’s former head of sleep products, emerged from stealth with $7M in funding for its AI-powered sleep earbuds.
Read moreThibault Sottiaux, OpenAI Codex engineering lead, says GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.3-Codex will be sunset from Codex on June 2 · Digg
Both models will remain accessible to developers via API
Read moreTrajectory Raises $15M To Build Continual Learning Platform For Agentic Models · Digg
Trajectory Raises $15M To Build Continual Learning Platform For Agentic Models - tracked by 2 authors on X.
Read moreETH Zürich's Tiberiu Mușat proves that fixed-precision neural network weight norm is equivalent to Kolmogorov complexity · Digg
The equivalence explains why deep networks generalize rather than memorize.
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Read moreIndustry
Rethinking organizational design in the age of agentic AI
Amid rapidly growing adoption of enterprise-level AI agents, there’s a disconnect emerging between ambition and execution. Although 85% of organizations say they want to be agentic within the next three years, 76% say their current operations and infrastructure can’t support that change. They cit...
Read moreA reality check on the AI jobs hysteria
Haven’t you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all of us knowledge workers. But before you quit your job as a software developer or financial analy...
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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