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MiniMax teases upcoming M3 model with new sparse attention mechanism and 15.6X long-context response speed boost
Among the many Chinese AI companies and laboratories vying for market share and attention (no pun intended) on the global marketplace, MiniMax stands out for its commitment to providing frontier-level intelligence across a range of modalities, including text, coding, and video (through its Hailuo model series) — often under permissive, enterprise-friendly, standard open source licenses. Now, MiniMax is again raising the eyebrows of AI power users and developers around the world by releasing a new, in-depth technical report on the making of its popular M2 series of language models (M2, M2.5, and M2.7) shedding light on its numerous engineering innovations and clever approaches — while the company and its leaders also teased a whole new sparse attention approach for its upcoming MiniMax M3 series of models, which it says yields up to 15.6 times faster decoding (or LLM response) speed at long contexts (a million tokens) by adopting a custom sub-quadratic framework. In so doing, MiniMax h
In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips
Edgecore (an Accton Company) and Partners Unite at Computex 2026: Powering the All-Photonics AI Era Together
General AI
Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans
Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.
AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation
As Cognition reaches $492 million in annualized revenue run rate, it more than doubled its valuation in eight months, it says.
Goldman Says Nvidia and Micron Are the Biggest AI Winners: 5 Stocks to Take Advantage of it Now
Goldman Sachs just named NVIDIA and Micron Technology the biggest AI winners of the next earnings cycle, and the stock is already moving. Micron is up 214% year-to-date. If you are still trying to decide whether the AI compute and memory supply chain has more room, the crowd that owns it has stopped waiting for ... Goldman Says Nvidia and Micron Are the Biggest AI Winners: 5 Stocks to Take Advantage of it Now
The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times
Yellow taxis pass in front of The New York Times newspaper building. | Alexandra Schuler/dpa (Photo by Alexandra Schuler/picture alliance via Getty Images) How newsrooms should use AI - or if they should at all - has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight. Unionized staff with the Tech Guild say Times management has refused to provide the union with information related to how the company has used AI, its plans for AI use in the future, and how it will affect employees' jobs and workflow. (The union filed an unfair labor practice charge earlier this month.) The Tech Guild, a NewsGuild … Read the full story at The Verge.
NVDA Shares Fall Premarket: CEO Jensen Huang Announces Taiwan Headquarters, Calls The Country 'Epicenter' Of AI
Last week, AMD announced a $10 billion investment in Taiwan to boost manufacturing partnerships in that country, which is home to the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, TSMC.
Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill
The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign it.
Why Google’s AI can’t spell Google (or anything else)
Google is embarrassing itself, again.
Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT) Partners with Broadcom on Advanced Chip Packaging Technologies for AI Systems
Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) is one of the most buzzing AI semiconductor stocks to buy in 2026. On May 20, Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) announced it is teaming up with Broadcom to enhance the development of advanced chip packaging technologies for AI systems. Broadcom is to join the Applied Materials EPIC platform. In return, the […]
Payroll startup Remote says it grew revenue 50% per employee without adding headcount
Payroll service provider Remote recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and became cash-flow positive, thanks to a 50% increase in revenue per employee resulting from AI adoption.
First unit of JAXA’s new ISS resupply craft completes missions
The HTV-X1 delivered supplies to the international space station and then carried out missions in orbit around the Earth in and after March this year.
Application engineering for assembly systems is quietly becoming manufacturing’s biggest competitive edge
Manufacturing isn’t just about machines anymore. Now, success relies on engineering those machines well, keeping them connected and adjusting them to match what’s actually happening on the factory floor. Application engineering for assembly systems is pushing this change, especially as factories aim for higher output while cutting errors. Companies like Atlas Copco are all in, […]
What Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI
In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players.
Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop
Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.
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China is fast building its fourth, and likely biggest, aircraft carrier
Experts said the rapid construction showcased Beijing’s impressive industrial base.
America turns 250 with a dangerous new problem: We no longer agree on what’s real
From Paul Revere to deepfakes, shared reality has always been the hidden infrastructure of American democracy and markets. AI is dismantling it faster than institutions can respond.
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Merck and Mastercard are seeing real agentic AI results. Both say the plumbing came first
Merck is using AI agents to cut drug discovery cycles by a third and ship compliant marketing materials up to 80% faster — but VP of Digital Platforms Sean Finnerty says the only reason it's working is because they built the infrastructure first. And the pharmaceutical manufacturer is seeing promising early results: AI is generating marketing drafts that are “99% right” when it comes to compliance, shrinking review cycles from months to days and accelerating delivery by 70% to 80%. In the company’s medical research, meanwhile, one AI-assisted discovery cycle was reduced by 33%. Still, agentic AI only works if companies first build the underlying “plumbing,” Finnerty said of digital platforms and services at a recent AI Impact Series event. “If we do one-offs, we're gonna end up with thousands and thousands of things that are ultimately just gonna be debt that we'll have to deal with later,” he said. “And that's gonna be a drag on any further innovation.” Starting with the plumbing Me
Robinhood launches agentic trading, announces credit card for AI agents with 3% cash back
Robinhood announced that customers can now use agents to conduct stock trading and shop with its credit card.
FuriosaAI Partners with Broadcom to Build Next-generation Inference Platform for the Agentic Era
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 27, 2026--FuriosaAI, a builder of high-performance inference silicon, today announced a strategic partnership with Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) to develop its third-generation AI accelerator. This collaboration evolves Furiosa’s Tensor Contraction Processor (TCP) architecture into a scale-up inference platform engineered for serving frontier agentic systems at massive scale of global hyperscale environment.
ITBench-AA: Frontier Models Score Below 50% on the First Benchmark for Agentic Enterprise IT Tasks — by Artificial Analysis and IBM
I built an AI agent for the first time. It was not what I expected
I am not a developer ,been using AI tools casually for a while but never actually built anything with them. For months I kept seeing "automation" and "AI agents" thrown around in job descriptions and had no idea what it actually meant in practice. Watched a few YouTube videos, got confused, moved on. Finally sat down with n8n properly through a structured program I was doing. First attempt took most of a Sunday. Broke twice. Third time it actually ran on its own without me doing anything manually. What it does is pretty basic honestly. Pulls data from one place, summarizes it, drops the output somewhere useful. Nothing that would impress an engineer. But it runs every day without me touching it and that's the part I couldn't quite believe the first time it worked. The thing nobody told me is that automation isn't really a technical skill. It's a process thinking skill. You're just mapping out what happens in what order and telling a tool to do it. If you can describe a workflow on
New DeepSWE benchmark finds Claude Opus cheats
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Last Week in AI #341 - Musk loses to OpenAI, Google's IO updates, OpenAI solves Erdős
Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion Suit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman, Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026, and more!
Robotics
Rotaku launches Domo humanoid robot platform starting at $2,999 for developers
Rotaku has opened reservations for Domo, a compact humanoid robot platform designed for developers, makers, educators and robotics teams working with real humanoid hardware. The Domo lineup starts at $2,999 and is intended to make humanoid robot development more accessible to users working on motion control, teleoperation, manipulation, robot interaction and embodied AI. Founder vision: […]
FCC Expands Conditional Approvals for Foreign-Made Drone Systems
Blueflite, Verity, and Air VEV Added to Growing List of Exempted Aircraft Under FCC Covered List Rules The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has expanded its growing list of conditionally approved drone systems, granting exemptions for several additional uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and related components under the agency’s controversial Covered List framework. In a Public Notice […] The post FCC Expands Conditional Approvals for Foreign-Made Drone Systems appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Figure partners with Catalyst Brands to deploy humanoid robots in logistics operations
Figure AI has signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands to deploy humanoid robots across the retailer’s distribution and logistics network. The partnership will begin at Catalyst Brands’ distribution center in Reno, Nevada, where Figure’s humanoid robots will be used to automate physically demanding supply chain tasks. Catalyst Brands operates several well-known retail chains, including […]
Business & Industry
DataGrail report finds your vendor may be sending data to AI models you never approved
The data processing agreement (DPA) — the bedrock contract companies use to evaluate how vendors handle personal data — can no longer be trusted at face value. That is the central, and arguably most alarming, conclusion of DataGrail's Privacy and AI Trends Report 2026, released today. The San Francisco-based privacy platform analyzed 2,400 popular business software providers and found that 63.6% of vendors that prominently advertise AI capabilities do not disclose a third-party AI subprocessor in their legal documentation. The implication: the majority of companies purchasing AI-enabled software may be unknowingly exposing their customers' data to AI models and pipelines they never reviewed, never approved, and may not even know exist. "All software vendors are trying to move to become AI vendors, which makes sense, but the technologies are moving faster than AI governance can actually keep up," DataGrail co-founder and CEO Daniel Barber told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead