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Curated AI & Tech Intelligence

May 31, 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 2026-05-29 — Ethan Mollick: Opus 4.8 Early Access — Neo-Gothic Shader Demo & Anthropic's New Frontier Model
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2 SoftBank says it will invest up to €75 billion to build French data centers
The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.
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3 ‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs
The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to be at an end.
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4 Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.
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5 I put Google’s 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it’s actually pretty useful
Gemini Spark helps automate everyday tasks, from inbox summaries to local event planning, but it’s unclear why Google made it a separate product.
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6 How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is a clarion...
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7 The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season
It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when former Google CEO Eric...
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8 Rethinking organizational design in the age of agentic AI
Amid rapidly growing adoption of enterprise-level AI agents, there’s a disconnect emerging between ambition and execution. Although 85% of organizations say they want to be agentic within the next three...
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9 Trajectory Releases a Concurrent Multi-LoRA Training Stack for Continual Learning, Reporting a 2.81× Experiment-Throughput Gain
Trajectory, working with UC Berkeley Sky Lab and Anyscale, built a concurrent multi-LoRA training stack for continual learning. It maps each RL experiment to a dedicated LoRA adapter on an...
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10 Build Skill-Augmented AI Agents with SkillNet for Search, Evaluation, Graph Analysis, and Task Planning
In this tutorial, we implement a SkillNet use case as a practical framework for discovering, installing, inspecting, evaluating, and organizing reusable AI skills. The post Build Skill-Augmented AI Agents with...
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2026-05-29 — Ethan Mollick: Opus 4.8 Early Access — Neo-Gothic Shader Demo & Anthropic's New Frontier Model
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