Daily AI Recap: May 25, 2026

Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments.

• Step by Step Guide to Build and Compare FedAvg and FedProx Federated Learning on Non-IID CIFAR-10 with NVIDIA FLARE: In this tutorial, we build an advanced federated learning experiment with NVIDIA FLARE. We compare FedAvg and FedProx on a non-IID CIFAR-10 setup, where client data is split using a Dirichlet distribu...
• Can AI Write Your Code?: What a recent study on ChatGPT, Python, R, and Stata tells us about AI-assisted coding for causal inference The post Can AI Write Your Code? appeared first on Towards Data Science....
• Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in days: Apply before May 27: The deadline to apply or nominate for Startup Battlefield 200 is May 27. This is your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000. Apply now....
• Q&A: Expanding MIT’s global reach through Universal Learning: Dimitris Bertsimas and Megan Mitchell discuss the motivation behind Universal Learning, and what sets the new MIT Open Learning educational initiative apart....
• Best Authentication Platforms for AI Agents and MCP Servers in 2026: As MCP crosses 97 million monthly SDK downloads and AI agents move into production workflows, authentication has become the most critical infrastructure decision teams face. This guide ranks the eight...
• Google Antigravity 2.0: The Full Developer Guide (I/O 2026): Google didn’t just ship an update at I/O 2026. They redrew the map.  Google Antigravity 2.0 dropped on May 19th and it’s not an IDE refresh. It’s a full platform pivot from AI assisted coding, to mult...
• FusionSense: Tri-Stage Near-Sensor Learning for Runtime-Adaptive Multimodal Edge Intelligence: arXiv:2605.22868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous systems and smart-industry deployments increasingly split computation across near-sensor, edge, and cloud resources, where tight energy, lat...
• AI Weekly Issue #495: Musk, Zuckerberg killed Trump's AI safety order in three phone calls: Over the weekend: Musk, Zuckerberg, and Sacks killed Trump's draft AI safety executive order in three Wednesday-night phone calls. CISA logged 15,000 attacks on a Drupal SQL flaw patched 48 hours earl...
• OpenAI, Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL announce strategic content partnership: OpenAI partners with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL to bring trusted Brazilian journalism to ChatGPT, expanding access to news with attribution and transparency....

• Latent Cache Flow: Model-to-Model Communication Without Text: arXiv:2605.22863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents today communicate via text, which incurs considerable latency and information loss due to ...
• Reading Calibrated Uncertainty from Language Model Trajectories: arXiv:2605.22864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The maximum softmax probability (MSP) represents a default approach when evaluating uncertainty quant...
• FuRA: Full-Rank Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Spectral Preconditioning: arXiv:2605.22869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Both full fine-tuning (Full FT) and parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods such as LoRA introduce we...
• The Readout Shortcut: Positional Number Copying Dominates Arithmetic CoT Readout in Small Language Models: arXiv:2605.22870v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting is necessary for arithmetic in small language models, yet shuffling ...
• BOHM: Zero-Cost Hierarchical Attribution for Compound AI Systems: arXiv:2605.22866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compound AI systems route tasks through hierarchies of specialised components. Attribution is dominat...
• NeuroNL2LTL: A Neurosymbolic Framework for Natural Language Translation of Linear Temporal Logic: arXiv:2605.22874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effectively translating between natural language (NL) and formal logics like Linear Temporal Logic (L...
• RMA: an Agentic System for Research-Level Mathematical Problems: arXiv:2605.22875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present $\textbf{Research Math Agents (RMA)}$, an agentic framework for automated reasoning on res...

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