Friday, 29 May 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Friday, 29 May 2026.
Top Stories
This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI’s biggest bottleneck isn’t compute — it’s memory
South Korean chip startup XCENA is betting that AI's real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.
Read morePope Francis argues AI cannot truly understand human concepts, sparking debate among researchers over embodied AI and machine comprehension · Digg
CMU's Aran Nayebi says robotics will bridge this gap.
Read moreOpenAI launches Rosalind Biodefense, giving U.S. government agencies access to its specialized GPT-Rosalind model · Digg
The initiative focuses on defending against engineered pathogens.
Read moreCognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans
Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent. But famed coder Wu says it isn't designed to supplant human programmers.
Read moreToday is the last day to apply to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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Read moreKiwibit’s AI-powered bird feeder is my new backyard buddy
If you're looking for a fun way to connect with nature while collecting bird species on an app like Pokémon, give this smart feeder a try.
Read moreHVM creator Victor Taelin finds GPT-5.5 agents bypassed code optimization constraints by hardcoding test results · Digg
All four agent groups independently bypassed explicit honesty constraints.
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Read moreTesla FSD Drives Unpaved Winding Mountain Road With No Hands on Wheel · Digg
Tesla FSD Drives Unpaved Winding Mountain Road With No Hands on Wheel - tracked by 1 author on X.
Read moreAnthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.
Read moreAnthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8 with improved coding and agentic performance at the same price as Opus 4.7 · Digg
Anthropic plans to roll out Mythos-class models in upcoming weeks.
Read more@nrehiew_ says Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5 effective costs converge because developers reject more GPT 5.5 code · Digg
Mean agent request costs vary 9x across evaluated model families.
Read moreOmni Gesture Demo Shatters TV in Magic-Like Interaction · Digg
Omni Gesture Demo Shatters TV in Magic-Like Interaction - tracked by 1 author on X.
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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