AI Weekly Issue #491: 100 years from now : The Last Election
This is 100 Years From Now. Once a week we skip a century and try to picture what life actually looks like when the stuff we're building now has had time to settle in. This week: the last vote.
NVIDIA AI Releases Star Elastic: One Checkpoint that Contains 30B, 23B, and 12B Reasoning Models with Zero-Shot Slicing
NVIDIA researchers have introduced Star Elastic, a post-training method that embeds multiple nested reasoning models — at 30B, 23B, and 12B parameter scales — inside a single checkpoint, eliminating the need for separate training runs or stored model weights per variant. Built on the Nemotron Elasti...
Meet GitHub Spec-Kit: An Open Source Toolkit for Spec-Driven Development with AI Coding Agents
If you have spent time using AI coding agents — GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Gemini CLI — you have probably run into this situation: you describe what you want, the agent generates a block of code that looks correct, compiles, and then subtly misses the actual intent. This “vibe-coding” approach can...
Musk v. Altman week 2: OpenAI fires back, and Shivon Zilis reveals that Musk tried to poach Sam Altman
In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny. Last week, Musk took the stand, alleging that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into donating $38 million to the company. He claimed t...
OpenAI Adds Chrome Extension to Codex, Letting Its AI Agent Access LinkedIn, Salesforce, Gmail, and Internal Tools via Signed-In Sessions
OpenAI has shipped a Chrome extension for Codex, its AI coding agent, enabling it to complete browser-based tasks directly inside Google Chrome on macOS and Windows — including interacting with signed-in websites, using Chrome DevTools, and running multi-step workflows across browser tabs.
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AI Quantum Intelligence - Pic of the week (2026-05-08)
A surreal pastel-on-canvas artwork exploring the human alternative to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. The Hand That Wanders celebrates intuition, emotion, creativity, empathy, and imperfection through expressive textures and symbolic imagery, contrasting organic human expr...
See what happens when creative legends use AI to make ads for small businesses
Today we're launching The Small Brief, an initiative bringing together four ad industry icons to champion a local businesses they love. Their mission is to build breakth…
How OpenAI runs Codex securely with sandboxing, approvals, network policies, and agent-native telemetry to support safe and compliant coding agent adoption.
Fighting Tool Sprawl: The Case for AI Tool Registries
As enterprise AI agent adoption scales, the absence of centralized, organization-level tool infrastructure is producing compounding costs. When adoption is built around optimizing for deployment speed, enterprises expose themselves to a combination of risks: duplicated engineering effort, security e...
Anthropic Introduces Natural Language Autoencoders That Convert Claude’s Internal Activations Directly into Human-Readable Text Explanations
When you type a message to Claude, something invisible happens in the middle. The words you send get converted into long lists of numbers called activations that the model uses to process context and generate a response. These activations are, in effect, where the model’s “thinking” lives. The probl...
OpenAI Releases Three Realtime Audio Models: GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper in the Realtime API
Three purpose-built audio models expand what developers can build with live voice: reasoning agents, speech translation across 70+ languages, and streaming transcription.
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Build a CloakBrowser Automation Workflow with Stealth Chromium, Persistent Profiles, and Browser Signal Inspection
In this tutorial, we explore CloakBrowser, a Python-friendly browser automation tool that uses Playwright-style APIs within a stealth Chromium environment. We begin by setting up CloakBrowser, preparing the required browser binary, and resolving the common Colab asyncio loop issue by running the syn...
OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API
The new features could be handy for customer service systems, but OpenAI says they have applications that work across a variety of other fields, including education and creator platforms.
LightSeek Foundation Releases TokenSpeed, an Open-Source LLM Inference Engine Targeting TensorRT-LLM-Level Performance for Agentic Workloads
Inference efficiency has quietly become one of the most consequential bottlenecks in AI deployment. As agentic coding systems such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor scale from developer tools to infrastructure powering software development at large, the underlying inference engines serving those req...
Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27: A shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K
Startup Battlefield 200 applications are open, but only for three more weeks. Apply by May 27 for your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, $100K equity-free, and more opportunities for major scaling impact. Pre-Series A founders — and anyone who knows a startup worth backing —...
Parloa builds service agents customers want to talk to
Parloa leverages OpenAI models to power scalable, voice-driven AI customer service agents, enabling enterprises to design, simulate, and deploy reliable, real-time interactions.
Advancing voice intelligence with new models in the API
Explore new realtime voice models in the OpenAI API that can reason, translate, and transcribe speech, enabling more natural and intelligent voice experiences.
Meta AI Releases NeuralBench: A Unified Open-Source Framework to Benchmark NeuroAI Models Across 36 EEG Tasks and 94 Datasets
Meta AI team has released NeuralBench, a unified open-source framework for benchmarking NeuroAI models, alongside NeuralBench-EEG v1.0 — the largest open EEG benchmark to date, covering 36 tasks, 94 datasets, and 14 deep learning architectures evaluated under a single standardized interface across 9...
Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B: A Reasoning MoE Trained on AMD Hardware That Punches Far Above Its Weight Class
Zyphra releases ZAYA1-8B, a reasoning Mixture of Experts model with only 760M active parameters that outperforms open-weight models many times its size on math and coding benchmarks — closing in on DeepSeek-V3.2 and surpassing Claude 4.5 Sonnet on HMMT'25 with its novel Markovian RSA test-time compu...
AI Weekly Issue #490: Anthropic just had AI's biggest week of 2026
In five days Anthropic's Q1 revenue grew 80-fold to a reported $44B annual run rate, the company committed $200B to Google Cloud, signed a SpaceX compute deal, shipped Claude Code Auto Mode, and launched ten financial-services agents with Jamie Dimon. In the same week the EU finally struck an AI Act...