The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
Key developments in large language models (LLMs) from November 2025 to May 2026, highlighting a critical inflection point where coding agents became reliably effective for daily use. During this perio…
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Key developments in large language models (LLMs) from November 2025 to May 2026, highlighting a critical inflection point where coding agents became reliably effective for daily use. During this perio…
AI coding agents are evolving from simple autocomplete tools into long-running, autonomous systems that can execute complex developer workflows, such as reading files, running tests, and making multi-…
A federal judge dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling that the case lacked legal merit. Musk has vowed to appeal the decision, but the judge indicated that any future filings would face…
The article announces the release of six new Sentence Transformers CrossEncoder reranker models, ranging from 17 million to 1 billion parameters, which are built on Ettin ModernBERT encoders and achie…
To build a voice AI assistant entirely in a web browser using about 200 lines of code and no backend server. It breaks down the process into three core components: Speech-to-Text (STT) using the free …
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a startup that provides software development kit (SDK) tools to competitors like OpenAI and Google, for over $300 million. The deal will remove a key infrastructure s…
At Google's annual I/O developer conference this week, the company enters as a clear third place in the foundation model race, having fallen behind rivals Anthropic and OpenAI in AI coding capabilitie…
Google's methodology for conducting large-scale A/B experiments on its core infrastructure, such as operating systems and memory allocators, rather than just on user-facing features. It highlights fou…
Bug bounty programs are being overwhelmed by a surge of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports, forcing some companies to suspend their initiatives. Bugcrowd reported a fourfold increase in s…
LetinAR, a South Korean startup backed by LG Electronics, has developed an optical lens technology called PinTILT that aims to make AI-powered smart glasses thinner, lighter, and more power-efficient …
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was repeatedly booed by the audience during his commencement speech at the University of Arizona while discussing artificial intelligence. Schmidt acknowledged the crowd…
Google has introduced **Gemini for Science**, a suite of AI-powered experimental tools designed to accelerate scientific discovery by helping researchers generate hypotheses, run computational experim…
Google is expanding its content transparency tools across Search, Gemini, Chrome, Pixel, and Cloud to help users understand the origin and editing history of digital media. The company is scaling its …
Google's new AI-powered Health Coach, integrated into Fitbit products as a paid replacement for Fitbit Premium, immediately generated false data during its first use, including fabricating a run and t…
OpenAI is exploring legal options against Apple over a strained partnership, with insiders saying the AI firm feels "burned" by Apple's ChatGPT integration that failed to meet expectations. OpenAI exp…
Microsoft is still displaying a spoofed Google homepage on Bing in May 2026, 18 months after the deceptive UI was first reported and supposedly removed. The tactic, which tricks users into running Bin…
Small language models with 1-9 billion parameters now handle 60-80% of enterprise AI workloads more efficiently than frontier models, according to a 2026 analysis of enterprise AI infrastructure. Thes…
On May 10, 2026, an AI agent deployed a pull request containing 81 lines of raw git conflict markers to tabiji.ai's production HTML for four hours. Google cut the site's organic search traffic by appr…
Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" in February 2025, capturing the zeitgeist around AI-assisted programming, but Steve Yegge, a longtime Amazon and Google developer, is the true prophet of …
Discussion between Google Cloud CISO director Vinod D’Souza and Wiz chief strategy officer Anthony Belfiore at the RSA Conference, highlighting how the partnership between Google and Wiz aims to addre…