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  1. What Stops Neural Networks from Becoming Linear Models

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    Researchers have demonstrated that certain neural networks, under specific conditions, can effectively collapse into linear models, losing their non-linear learning capabilities.

  2. Japan Cablemaker Rout Exposes Cracks in AI Infrastructure Rally

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-25

    A $40 billion selloff in a 141-year-old Japanese cable firm has served as a reality check on the fragility of the global AI-driven stock rally.

  3. These AI Gurus Are Charging Wall Street Banks $25,000 a Day

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-25

    Global banks are pouring billions into artificial intelligence yet struggling to automate workflows. Two ex-bankers say they are being hired to ignite the shift.

  4. The Silent Speedup: How KV Cache Makes AI Feel Instant

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    How a memory trick borrowed from your OS is quietly holding modern AI inference together — and how to build it yourself.

  5. Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training

    Hacker News · 2026-05-25

    Norway's national supercomputing initiative has procured two petabytes of Huawei flash storage, intended to bolster its capacity for large language model (LLM) development.

  6. Together AI Open-Sources OSCAR: An Attention-Aware 2-Bit KV Cache Quantization System for Long-Context LLM Serving

    MarkTechPost · 2026-05-25

    Together AI has released OSCAR (Offline Spectral Covariance-Aware Rotation), an INT2 KV cache quantization method for long-context LLM serving.

  7. How AI Took Over Coding

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    From Stack Overflow to agentsContinue reading on Towards AI »

  8. I Shipped a RAG + MCP Agent to Production. Five Things Broke.

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    A developer successfully deployed a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) agent incorporating an MCP (Multi-Chain Prompting) strategy into a live production environment

  9. OpenAI, Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL announce strategic content partnership

    OpenAI Blog · 2026-05-25

    OpenAI partners with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL to bring trusted Brazilian journalism to ChatGPT, expanding access to news with attribution and transparency.

  10. LLM Driven AutoForecasting with Sktime’s `craft()`

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    Sktime, an open-source Python library for time series analysis, has introduced a new `craft()` function that leverages large language models (LLMs) to automate the process of

  11. NVIDIA Open-Sourced a Deep Research Agent That Beat OpenAI on Its Own Benchmarks

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    And You Can Actually Own ItContinue reading on Towards AI »

  12. Rachel Reeves tells ministers to ‘buy British’ in four key industries

    The Guardian AI · 2026-05-25

    Exclusive: Chancellor pushes for procurement of ships, steel, energy and AI to prioritise Britishness as well as cost Rachel Reeves has instructed cabinet colleagues to award

  13. Anthropic Just Bought the Company That Builds OpenAI’s SDKs. Nobody’s Saying It Out Loud Yet.

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    Anthropic acquired the SDK compiler that powers OpenAI, Google, Meta, Cloudflare, and Cerebras. This is infrastructure consolidation, not…

  14. Can AI write your code?

    Towards Data Science · 2026-05-25

    What a recent study on ChatGPT, Python, R, and Stata tells us about AI-assisted coding for causal inference

  15. The Guardian view on the Pope and Claude: Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is right to put humanity first | Editorial

    The Guardian AI · 2026-05-25

    In calling for regulation of the digital revolution, and foregrounding human dignity, the pontiff has contributed to a crucial ethical debate When the present pope adopted his

  16. Microsoft Introduces MDASH for Large-Scale AI Vulnerability Research

    InfoQ · 2026-05-25

    Microsoft has introduced a new AI-driven vulnerability discovery system called MDASH, a multi-model agentic security platform desi

  17. What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work

    TechCrunch · 2026-05-25

    The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents.

  18. Agentic AI and the SMB Banking Advantage

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    A new report suggests that generative AI agents, currently in early development and testing by companies like Adept AI

  19. Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few

    Hacker News · 2026-05-25

    Pope Leo XIV's inaugural encyclical articulates a moral imperative for artificial intelligence to prioritize universal human well-being over the interests of a select few.

  20. The More I Tuned My Reward Function, The Worse My RL Agent Got

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    A reinforcement learning agent's performance degraded as its reward function was progressively refined during training.

  21. Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI

    The Verge · 2026-05-25

    Pope Leo XIV warned of the risks of AI and unconstrained technological power in his first major papal document released on Monday.

  22. The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI

    TechCrunch · 2026-05-25

    Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.

  23. The EU AI Act Won’t Hit Your AI Team First — It Will Hit Your Supply Chain

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    The EU AI Act will primarily impact companies that integrate AI systems into their own products and services, rather than AI developers themselves.

  24. At the launch of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, Anthropic co-founder says AI models show signs of introspection

    The Decoder · 2026-05-25

    Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah was invited to speak at the launch of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" and used the stage to claim AI models show evidence of

  25. From TF-IDF to Transformers: Implementing Four Generations of Semantic Search

    Towards Data Science · 2026-05-25

    How did semantic search evolve from simple keyword matching into modern transformer-based language understanding?

  26. GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100

    Hacker News · 2026-05-25

    Researchers demonstrated that GPT-4, when tasked with guessing a number between 1 and 100, exhibits a non-uniform distribution in its guesses

  27. 43 Seconds vs. 30 Minutes: A Deep Dive into Claude Code’s Plan Mode

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    Claude Code's "Plan Mode," demonstrated to complete a coding task in 43 seconds that previously took a human 30 minutes

  28. Statistics Concept — Monty Hall Paradox: When Intuition Fails but Bayesian Reasoning Prevails

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    A step-by-step probabilistic breakdown using Bayes’ theorem, graphical illustration, and Monte Carlo simulation using PythonContinue reading on Towards AI »

  29. Introducing the Agent Toolkit for Amazon Web Services

    Towards Data Science · 2026-05-25

    It’s like having your own personal expert AWS solutions architect and data engineer rolled into one.

  30. Pope Leo calls for AI to serve humanity and not concentrate power

    Engadget · 2026-05-25

    In 42,300 word encyclical, Pope Leo warns of AI dangers around educational, child safety, concentration of power and weapons.

  31. Pope Leo denounces ‘culture of power’ driving rise of AI

    The Guardian AI · 2026-05-25

    Pontiff calls for ‘disarming’ of artificial intelligence and apologises for church’s delay in condemning slavery Pope Leo has denounced the “culture of power” driving the rapid

  32. Best Authentication Platforms for AI Agents and MCP Servers in 2026

    MarkTechPost · 2026-05-25

    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.

  33. Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus solves decades-old math problems for a few hundred dollars

    The Decoder · 2026-05-25

    Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus has autonomously solved nine open Erdős problems, including two that stumped mathematicians for 56 years

  34. The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race

    WIRED · 2026-05-25

    As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.

  35. AI with Model-Based Design: Virtual Sensor Modeling

    IEEE Spectrum · 2026-05-25

    This webinar presents a workflow offering end-to-end solutions for designing, training, validating and verifying, compressing

  36. Pope Says AI Should Be Disarmed to Avoid Dominating Humanity

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-25

    Pope Leo XIV said artificial intelligence should be “disarmed” to protect humanity from its dangers, adding his voice to a heated debate over the extent to which governments should

  37. George Hotz says coding agents will be "one of the most costly mistakes" in software development

    The Decoder · 2026-05-25

    Programmer George Hotz warns that AI coding agents will become one of the industry's most costly mistakes.

  38. WorkOS Releases auth.md: An Open Agent Registration Protocol Built on OAuth Standards

    MarkTechPost · 2026-05-25

    Most web applications still have no structured way for an AI agent to register. auth.md proposes a fix: a Markdown file apps publish at their domain that tells agents which

  39. AI models often give the right answers but point to the wrong sources

    The Decoder · 2026-05-25

    Leading AI models like GPT and Gemini routinely cite text passages in document analyses that don't actually support their answers.

  40. SoftBank Shares Hit Record With Lift From OpenAI IPO Hopes

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-25

    SoftBank Group Corp. shares climbed to a record high, spurred by hopes of big returns from the Japanese investor’s stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy Corp., should the two go public.

  41. AI Rally Drives Best Run in Global Momentum Stocks on Record

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-25

    The AI boom is giving momentum investors their best return in decades, as the world’s hottest stocks power ahead despite worries over potentially slower growth due to the Iran war.

  42. The Ten-Minute Ritual That Decides Whether Claude Code Actually Helps You

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    Part 3: Claude Code, Day-to-Day: Your AI agent is not underpowered. Your day is unstructured. That is fixable in ten minutes.

  43. Token Waste: The Silent Tax on Every AI Team

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    The recent discussion highlights the substantial financial and computational overhead associated with inefficient token utilization in large language models (LLMs).

  44. Your Agentic AI Bill Is a Prompt Engineering Problem in Disguise

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    The notion that agentic AI's perceived cost is primarily a prompt engineering challenge, rather than a fundamental compute or model efficiency issue

  45. Claude Code: Spec-Driven Development — Why Your AI Coding Sessions Fall Apart at Hour Three

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    Part 4: Stop coding blind: the spec-driven workflow built-in that turns Claude Code from a function writer into a feature builder.

  46. Sliding Windows Forget: Why Long-Running LLM Apps Need Memory Policy

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    Recent research highlights the limitations of current Large Language Models (LLMs) in maintaining conversational context over extended interactions

  47. Apple Watchに変革を、Whoopやオーラ台頭でヘルスケアアプリに課題－Power On

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-25

    Apple's health ambitions for the Watch face increased pressure from specialized wearables like Whoop and Oura

  48. Sakura Internet Eyes More Spending to Meet Japan’s AI Demand

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-25

    Sakura Internet Inc.’s chief said the company may need to hike its capital spending by nearly seven times its initial plan to keep up with artificial intelligence demand in Japan.

  49. Why Most AI Agents Die in Production

    Towards AI · 2026-05-25

    Four engineering primitives that turn agent demos into production systems.