2026

Why AI makes errors in requirements and architecture more costly despite speeding up development

Meta bought Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its AI push for humanoid robots

Palantir tests a system for the IRS to select priority targets for tax audits

LLM·The Verge

Senators Warren and Hawley demand disclosure of U.S. data centers' actual energy use

Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley called on the EIA to collect mandatory annual data on data center energy use to better plan power grids and

01Cerebras seeks up to $4 billion in IPO, targets valuation of about $40 billionMay 2, 2026·3 min 02U.S. Senate seeks data from data centers on electricity bills and grid loadMay 2, 2026·3 min 03Yandex integrates Alice Pro into Mail: AI finds facts in emails and helps with repliesMay 2, 2026·2 min 04Microsoft changes Copilot in Windows 11: AI stays, but disappears from names and buttonsMay 2, 2026·3 min 05Apple raised Mac mini starting price to $799 due to demand for local AI toolsMay 2, 2026·3 min

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LLM·MarkTechPost

Hugging Face and Lambda: how to parse and fine-tune agent reasoning traces

MarkTechPost published a practical guide to the lambda/hermes-agent-reasoning-traces dataset: how to parse agent thoughts, tool calls, creat

01Russia tests autonomous patrol robots for surveillance in penal coloniesMay 2, 2026·3 min 02Lovable reached $400M ARR, adding $100M in a month with just 146 employeesMay 2, 2026·2 min 03Amazon added Sassy mode for adults to Alexa+: swearing, teasing, no NSFWMay 2, 2026·3 min

Mantis Biotech creates digital twins of people to address the shortage of medical data

Mantis Biotech creates synthetic medical datasets and human digital twins to speed up drug research where the market lacks high-quality data

LLM·TNW

ByteDance unveils an AI-designed drug candidate against IL-17 for autoimmune diseases

ByteDance unit Anew Labs has for the first time unveiled an AI-designed drug candidate: an oral molecule against IL-17 for autoimmune diseas

Amazon added an adult Sassy mode to Alexa+: the assistant can swear and tease

Amazon launched a new adult Sassy style for Alexa+: the assistant can reply with profanity and sarcasm, but the company tightly restricted the topics and requires additional verification in the app.

LLM·Wired

WIRED showed how ChatGPT distorts editors’ recommendations on the best laptops, TVs, and headphones

Habr AI: why creating sentient AI may be more dangerous than enhancing the human brain

Oxford scientists: "warm" AI tuning increases the frequency of errors and sycophancy

Amazon added conversational food ordering via Uber Eats and Grubhub to Alexa+

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft have launched an AI platform war instead of a model race

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI stumbled in court after admission about xAI training

OpenGrall introduces “Engineer” mode: robot writes drivers and configures modules on its own

Popular AI chatbots get diagnoses wrong in more than 80% of cases, study finds

Stanford HAI: China has nearly caught up with the US in AI and is already ahead in patents and robots

OpenAI added Spotify, Uber, and DoorDash integrations to ChatGPT: how to use them

Google added prompt-based control of AI avatars to Vids and video export to YouTube

LLM·Wired

Google funds a Texas data center being prepared to run on a major gas-fired plant

Project documents for Goodnight in Texas show that part of Google's new data center could be powered by a gas facility with emissions of mor

01ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of Seedance 2.0May 2, 2026·3 min 02SD Studio turns local Stable Diffusion into “its own Midjourney” with an LLM assistantMay 2, 2026·2 min 03US poll finds: people are more comfortable living next to an Amazon warehouse than a data centerMay 2, 2026·2 min 04Y Combinator shifted its focus from software to hard tech, robots, chips, and lunar manufacturingMay 2, 2026·3 min 05Google accidentally revealed AI assistant COSMO in the Play Store and quickly hid the appMay 2, 2026·3 min

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Amazon launched Alexa+ in the UK and opened free early access

Amazon has brought Alexa+ to the UK market: users can test the new AI assistant for free through early access, and later the service will be

01Nebius acquires Eigen AI for $643 million to accelerate and lower the cost of AI infrastructureMay 2, 2026·2 min 02Disneyland rolls out facial recognition entry, and opting out does not guarantee no camera captureMay 2, 2026·2 min 03Chinese court bans firing employees to replace them with AIMay 2, 2026·3 min

Google added Skills to Chrome — a feature for saving and rerunning AI prompts

Chrome has gained Skills: Google’s new feature saves frequently used prompts for Gemini so they can be rerun without manual typing and commo

LLM·Guardian

Western with a digital version of Val Kilmer gets first trailer and sparks debate

A trailer has been released for As Deep As the Grave featuring an authorized digital version of Val Kilmer: the actor died in April 2025 bef

MIT and Oxford: even 10 minutes with AI reduce persistence and the quality of independent work

Researchers from MIT, Oxford, and UCLA found that even 10–15 minutes with an AI assistant improve results in the moment, but after it is switched off, people give up more often and solve tasks worse o

Hugging Face released a Skill for quickly porting Transformers models to MLX

LLM·Hugging Face Blog

BentoML showed how to turn Grounding DINO into a production service with a web API

Habr details an AI framework for Claude with Clean Architecture and a TDD cycle

Mark Zuckerberg has all but moved into Meta's AI lab and, according to the president, is writing code himself

Falcon Tech explained how machine vision for cities grew into a network of 4,000 systems

Falcon Tech showed how Moscow's video monitoring system grew out of parking enforcement

MTS: the first architectural decisions in AI made today set constraints for decades ahead

LLM·Guardian

Narwhal Labs faces complaints over sexist AI advertising in the UK

The UK's advertising regulator has received at least seven complaints about Narwhal Labs' campaign after a poster featuring a woman and the slogan "she will never ask for a raise."