Sunday, May 17, 2026

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 4 stories

1. 1Introducing Gemini Omni92
2. 2Chinese AI groups pull ahead of US rivals in video generation race
3. 3New math benchmark reveals AI models confidently solve problems that have no solution

The AI products people actually use. · 18 stories

1. 1Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery72
2. 2Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View
3. 3Gemini app rolling out ‘Extended’ thinking level, new 3rd-party app integrations - 9to5Google

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 2 stories

1. 1For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis78
2. 2Publicis to buy US data company in $2.2bn deal as it deepens AI marketing push

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 3 stories

1. 1Samsung Plans To Transform Your Smartphone & Tablet Into On-Device AI Powerhouses With High-Bandwidth Memory Chips Using Complex Packaging - Wccftech72
2. 2NVIDIA’s Fastest PRO GPU Is Silently Breaching The $10,000 US Price Barrier Due To AI Demand - Wccftech
3. 3Researchers built a switch 1,000 times faster than today's AI chips, and it barely generates any heat - TechSpot

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 24 stories

1. 1Claude Code RCE Flaw Lets Attackers Execute Commands via Malicious Deeplinks - CyberSecurityNews72
2. 2People overestimate how confident AI systems are in their responses, experiments reveal - Phys.org
3. 3Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11 - Windows Latest