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Curated AI & Tech Intelligence

May 22, 2026

A curated roundup of the most impactful stories in AI, technology, and research — handpicked to keep you informed and ahead of the curve.

1 Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes
Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.
techcrunch.com
2 Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore
Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not going to like what's coming.
techcrunch.com
3 Trump delays AI security executive order, saying language ‘could have been a blocker’
President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of AI models, citing dissatisfaction with the order's language.
techcrunch.com
4 Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts
Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts
techcrunch.com
5 Roundtables: Can AI Learn to Understand the World?
Listen to the session or watch below AI companies want to build systems that understand the external world and overcome the limitations of LLMs. Recent developments have brought world models...
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6 Scaling creativity in the age of AI
Storytelling is core to humanity’s DNA, stemming from our impulse to express ideals, warnings, hopes, and experiences. Technology has always been woven through the medium and the distribution: from early...
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7 Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not
The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, Anthropic’s two-day event for software developers in London that kicked off on May 19, the same day as Google’s I/O in Palo...
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8 How CopilotKit Is Redefining the Agentic AI Stack in 2026
An inside look at CopilotKit’s 2026 shipping cycle. Learn how the new AG-UI protocol, AIMock testing suite, and Pathfinder server are providing the production architecture developers need for agentic AI....
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9 Qwen Introduces Qwen3.7-Max: A Reasoning Agent Model With a 1M-Token Context Window
Alibaba's Qwen team introduced Qwen3.7-Max at the 2026 Alibaba Cloud Summit, describing it as its most advanced and comprehensive agent model to date. The model features a 1M-token context window,...
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10 Cohere Releases Command A+: A 218B Sparse MoE Model for Agentic Workflows That Runs on as Few as Two H100 GPUs
Cohere releases Command A+, an open-source 218B Sparse Mixture-of-Experts model consolidating four prior Command A variants into one. It runs on as few as two H100 GPUs at W4A4 quantization,...
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2026-05-22 — GPT-5.2 Reaches Expert-Level Peer Review in the Sciences
45 domain scientists spent 469 hours evaluating 2,960 atomic review items from human & AI reviews on 82 Nature-family papers. GPT-5.2 achieved a 60% "fully positive" composite rate vs. the top-rated human reviewer's 48.2% (p=0.009) — statistically significant. However, AI reviewers trade **lower correctness** for **higher significance** — they hallucinate more criticisms, but their correct ones tend to be more important than what humans catch. AI reviewers overlap heavily with each other but not with humans (redundancy problem), and systematically struggle with field-specific contextual judgment.
`#gpt-5.2` `#peer-review` `#ai-research` `#scientific-publishing` `#nature` `#ai-vs-human` `#expert-evaluation` `#ethan-mollick`
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