Thursday, 28 May 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Thursday, 28 May 2026.
Top Stories
How long is Anthropic’s lease with SpaceX? Opinions vary.
Elon Musk is publicly reframing xAI’s massive Anthropic compute deal as short-term and cancellable, despite SpaceX’s own S-1 filing describing payments through May 2029.
Read moreRobin Hanson argues current AI models show little indication of suffering despite debates over machine consciousness · Digg
Millions of Claude instances are generated and terminated daily.
Read moreAnalysis argues AI advancements accelerate human problem-solving, citing post-AlphaGo Go performance and combinatorics breakthroughs · Digg
Humans used AI-derived techniques to solve unit distance problems.
Read moreLindsay M. Smith and Matt Wiemann launch DiscoverPhysics to evaluate LLM agents on scientific experimentation and physical law discovery · Digg
The pipeline tests if LLMs can design scientific experiments.
Read moreSesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, launches its iOS app
Sesame’s new iOS app brings its conversational AI agents to the public, offering more natural back-and-forth interactions designed to feel less like traditional chatbots and more like talking to a person.
Read moreSneak peek at new Siri app reveals Apple’s plans to take on ChatGPT and more
New renders offer a closer look at Apple’s planned AI overhaul for iOS 27, including a redesigned Siri experience powered and standalone Siri app.
Read moreRSI is the new AGI — and it’s just as hard to pin down
A new crop of AI labs are focused on recursive self-improvement — but the goal is proving elusive.
Read moreAt TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Databricks’ co-founder on what kills enterprise AI deals
Enterprise AI is entering a different phase now, one where enterprises are no longer evaluating whether AI is exciting. They are evaluating whether it is safe to deploy broadly.
Read moreAnthropic stages unreleased Claude Opus 4.8 model in its desktop application's model selector · Digg
The staging suggests an imminent official product launch
Read moreElon Musk claims SpaceX's custom C-based AI training framework is 10x faster than JAX on 220,000 GB300 GPUs · Digg
Critics questioned the JAX benchmark and choice of C.
Read moreMathematicians disprove the sum-product conjecture for real numbers using insights from OpenAI's unit distance conjecture counterexample · Digg
The discovery validates Timothy Gowers' prediction of human-AI math collaboration
Read moreGitHub - self-evolving/repo
Contribute to self-evolving/repo development by creating an account on GitHub.
Read moreCognition, creator of Devin, raises $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation with $492 million run-rate · Digg
Weekly Devin sessions spiked at Citi and Mercedes-Benz
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.
Read moreSoro: A Lightweight Foundation Model and Chatbot for Tajik
arXiv:2605.27379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Soro, a family of Tajik-specialized conversational large language models (LLMs) designed for real-world deployment under tight compute and connectivity constraints in Tajikistan. Starting from open-weight Gemma 3 checkpoints, we perform T...
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