2026

Apple delays Vision Pro 2 to 2028: betting on glasses and AI devices

Google intercepts a zero-day exploit built with AI for the first time

AI is creating 'insatiable' demand for memory: Alger CEO on the semiconductor boom

LLM·Bloomberg Tech

Metis TechBio raised $270 million in Hong Kong IPO — AI for drug development

Chinese AI hardware suppliers struggle to keep up with demand due to component shortages

Alibaba and Tencent under scrutiny: proving AI bets are profitable

Stores Turn to Facial Recognition to Fight Shoplifting

Retailers are deploying facial recognition systems to combat shoplifting, but the technology expands video surveillance and is not always ac

01AI Memory Shortage Splits the Chip Market Into Leaders and LaggardsMay 17, 2026·2 min 02JPMorgan: AI agents are the first technology this decade capable of dramatically augmenting the workforceMay 17, 2026·2 min 03Matt Keightley launched an AI assistant for garden design and angered colleaguesMay 17, 2026·3 min 04Webidoo raises $25M to scale AI for small businessesMay 17, 2026·2 min 05Google unveiled Gemini Intelligence for Android — AI controls appsMay 17, 2026·2 min

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LLM·Habr AI

Sber study: how AI quietly substitutes for strategic decision-making

Sber's lab studied how top executives use AI for strategic decisions and found a critical problem: models quietly replace missing context wi

01Three experts on whether AI will save Russia from a labor shortageMay 17, 2026·3 min 02Claude Mythos supposedly found a vulnerability, but it was already in the training dataMay 17, 2026·2 min 03Seven companies captured 80% of Russia's speech analytics market worth 12.5 billion rublesMay 17, 2026·3 min

LLM·Bloomberg Tech

Anthropic seeks $30 billion amid valuation above $900 billion

The creator of Claude is in talks to raise at least $30 billion at a valuation above $900 billion — one of the highest for a private AI comp

Europe's dependence on U.S. cloud services has become a political risk

Europe is excessively dependent on American cloud services, threatening data sovereignty and creating a serious political vulnerability.

Anthropic in talks to raise $30 billion at a $900 billion valuation

Claude maker could become more valuable than OpenAI: Anthropic is in talks for a $30 billion round at a valuation above $900 billion, just three months after its previous record funding.

Spain Won’t Yield to US Lobbying: López Defends New Rules for AI and Social Media

The best code didn't win: what the Dev-to-Dev hackathon final says about agentive engineering

Process Mining: the tool that saves corporate AI budgets

Meta installed mouse tracking for employees — mass protests began

LLM·CNews AI

Russian IT infrastructure market reaches 658 billion rubles amid AI development

Three Japanese megabanks to gain access to Anthropic's Mythos AI model

Tencent's Slow Growth Exposed the Need for an AI Transition

LLM·Bloomberg Tech

Alibaba failed to monetize AI — revenue fell below expectations

Alibaba disappointed investors with quarterly revenue below expectations, raising doubts about the company’s ability to turn AI investments

01DeepMind built a Gemini-powered AI mouse so users don't switch to chatsMay 17, 2026·3 min 02Mira Murati unveiled the first system for natural real-time dialogue with AIMay 17, 2026·2 min 03Jumia cuts staff under the banner of AI transformation, targeting profitabilityMay 17, 2026·2 min 04Quantexa to receive £175 million to modernize the UK tax systemMay 17, 2026·2 min 05Seven million Meta Ray-Ban cameras: how smart glasses destroyed the right to privacyMay 17, 2026·3 min

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Four-month-old startup raises $650 million for AI that improves itself

The startup secured $650 million to develop an AI system that improves itself in an accelerating cycle — a science-fiction concept is moving

01BCG trains AI agent Jamie on mistakes, not successesMay 17, 2026·2 min 02Marketers adopted AI, consumers didn't. Canva report on the trust gapMay 17, 2026·3 min 03Graphon AI raises $8.3M for a data-processing layer for LLMsMay 17, 2026·2 min

AI data centers consume 6% of electricity in the UK and US

Data centers consume 6% of electricity in the UK and the US, while annual investment in them is approaching $1 trillion, triggering public o

Stratos data center sparks controversy: Utah approves project larger than Manhattan

The Stratos data center will require more electricity than the entire state of Utah currently uses and will pump water in an arid region, wo

Court in Hangzhou awards compensation to worker replaced by AI

A Chinese court awarded more than £28,000 to a worker dismissed in favor of AI. It is the first case in China showing how regulators are balancing AI innovation and job protection.

One in seven Britons consult AI instead of visiting a doctor

Hugging Face sped up LLM inference by 22% with asynchronous batching

GPT-4 helps archivists transcribe handwritten documents 50 times faster

OpenAI's AI outperformed doctors in diagnosis — but scientists urge caution

LLM·IEEE Spectrum AI

Applied Materials invests $5 billion in semiconductor R&D center for AI

Artificial intelligence finds bugs in Linux faster than developers can fix them

6 new AI skills made Microsoft Edge the best mobile browser

LLM·MIT Technology Review

Google AI gives out strangers' phone numbers instead of service provider contacts

Google Gemini is mistakenly giving out personal phone numbers when people search for lawyers, designers, or locksmiths, and those people are getting waves of calls from strangers.