TechSambad May 23, 2026: Google goes for the glitter with disco-bal... | How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to... | Elon Musk can’t hear you over the sound of... | Google I/O showed how the path for AI-driv....

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

1 Google goes for the glitter with disco-ball icons: ‘Are y’all sure you still want this?’

You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel home screen, says Google.

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2 How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups

Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.

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3 Elon Musk can’t hear you over the sound of his $1.75 trillion IPO

The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside...

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4 Google I/O showed how the path for AI-driven science is shifting

During Tuesday’s Google I/O keynote, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, proclaimed that we are currently “standing in the foothills of the singularity.” It was a striking statement—the singularity...

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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 A Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial to Implement GBrain: The Self-Wiring Memory Layer Built by Y Combinator’s Garry Tan for AI Agents

AI agents start every session from zero — no memory of meetings, notes, or decisions. GBrain, the open-source memory layer Y Combinator's Garry Tan built to power his own OpenClaw...

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8 Microsoft Releases Fara1.5: A Family of Browser Computer-Use Agents (4B/9B/27B) That Outperform OpenAI Operator and Gemini 2.5 Computer Use on Online-Mind2Web

Microsoft Research released Fara1.5, a family of browser computer-use agents in 4B, 9B, and 27B sizes. Fara1.5-27B scores 72% on Online-Mind2Web, outperforming OpenAI Operator, Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, and Yutori...

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9 Build Recurrent-Depth Transformers with OpenMythos for MLA, GQA, Sparse MoE, and Loop-Scaled Reasoning

In this tutorial, we explore OpenMythos by building an advanced recurrent-depth transformer workflow that runs end-to-end in Google Colab. We create both MLA and GQA model variants, compare their parameter...

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