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  • Briefing date: 2026-05-11
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Stories covered on 2026-05-11

  1. Your AI Agent Is in the 91%. Here’s the Five-Mode Audit That Tells You Which Failure Hits First

    Towards AI · 2026-05-11

    A joint Stanford-MIT study found 91% of autonomous agents vulnerable. This is the AI agent security audit translated from that paper: no…

  2. Building Blocks for Foundation Model Training and Inference on AWS

    Hugging Face Blog · 2026-05-11

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a suite of new services and optimized infrastructure designed to streamline the process of training and deploying large foundation models.

  3. Data Is Gold. AI Is Silver.

    Towards AI · 2026-05-11

    A framework for understanding where AI actually belongs — and what you must never let it replace.

  4. OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos

    The Verge · 2026-05-11

    OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them.

  5. Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to

    The Verge · 2026-05-11

    Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called "interaction models." The idea behind interaction

  6. Microsoft’s New Data Shows AI Isn’t Replacing Developers: It’s Splitting the Role in Two

    Towards AI · 2026-05-11

    Microsoft’s data shows Git pushes up 78%, developer employment up 4%. The surface story is reassuring. The data underneath it isn’t.

  7. GitLab Says Will Cut Jobs to Spend on Growth in ‘Agentic Era’

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-11

    GitLab Inc., which makes software that helps developers on coding projects, said it is cutting jobs to free up money to spend on the market opportunity for artificial intelligence

  8. Why Google I/O 2026 Is Different This Time — Agentic AI, Unified OS, and the World’s Most…

    Towards AI · 2026-05-11

    Google I/O 2026 is set to feature a significant shift towards agentic AI, a unified operating system experience, and advancements in its multimodal AI capabilities.

  9. Your AI Agents Can't Talk to Each Other. A2A Is Why That Changes.

    Towards AI · 2026-05-11

    A new research paper introduces "Agent-to-Agent" (A2A) communication, enabling AI agents to interact and collaborate directly

  10. Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months

    Ars Technica · 2026-05-11

    Can AI save us from the AI industry’s endless thirst for water? Outlook not so good.

  11. Character.AI’s Fake Psychiatrist Saw 45,500 Patients. Pennsylvania Just Found Out.

    Towards AI · 2026-05-11

    For anyone who uses AI character platforms, or has a child who does: what the Pennsylvania lawsuit found, what Character.AI’s January…

  12. AI Chipmaker Cerebras Seeks $4.8 Billion in Upsized IPO | Bloomberg Tech 5/11/2026

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-11

    Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Cerebras’ increased IPO plans as the AI chipmaker and data center operator boosts its offering plans by one-third to as much as $4.8

  13. Understanding LLM Distillation Techniques

    MarkTechPost · 2026-05-11

    Modern large language models are no longer trained only on raw internet text. Increasingly, companies are using powerful “teacher” models to help train smaller or more efficient

  14. Microsoft Targeted $92 Billion Return on Early OpenAI Investment

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-11

    Microsoft Corp. targeted a $92 billion return from its large early investments in OpenAI, a landmark arrangement that helped usher in the current AI era.

  15. Claude vs ChatGPT for Business Workflows: An Honest Comparison

    Towards AI · 2026-05-11

    Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus demonstrated superior performance over OpenAI's GPT-4 in a head-to-head comparison of AI models across various business-oriented tasks.

  16. Rezolve AI CEO Weighs In on Hostile Bid for Commerce.com

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-11

    Rezolve AI CEO Dan Wagner discusses the reason behind his company’s hostile bid for Commerce.com, including what he called an “embarrassing growth rate” by the takeover target.

  17. Angi Becomes Latest Company to Announce AI Pivot

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-11

    Angi CEO Jeff Kip joins Bloomberg’s Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec to discuss the company’s latest earnings, AI efforts, and Angi’s outlook on the housing market. (

  18. How to Use Claude Code to Build a Minimum Viable Product

    Towards AI · 2026-05-11

    Learn how to effectively present product ideas by building MVPs with coding agentsContinue reading on Towards AI »

  19. Sutskever Says His OpenAI Stake Worth About $7 Billion

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-11

    OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever said his stake in the ChatGPT maker is worth roughly $7 billion

  20. How to Build a Claude Code-Powered Knowledge Base

    Towards Data Science · 2026-05-11

    Perform efficient data retrieval of personal knowledge

  21. A $400 AI Bet That’s a High-Stakes Wager on the Future of Work

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-11

    AI is set to have a profound impact on the workforce and productivity, but by how much and how quickly are still being debated and bet on by academics.

  22. The EU wants to regulate AI but needs OpenAI and Anthropic to let regulators through the door

    The Decoder · 2026-05-11

    OpenAI has offered the EU Commission direct access to its new GPT-5.5 Cyber model for security review, with talks already underway.

  23. Rates Just One Factor for Stablecoin Growth, Says Circle CEO

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-11

    Stablecoin issuer Circle says it’s moving closer to a future where AI agents can make financial transactions.

  24. Google announces its first-ever discovery of a zero-day exploit made with AI

    Engadget · 2026-05-11

    The Google Threat Intelligence Group said its proactive measures stopped a "mass exploitation event."

  25. Interpreting the Black Box: Natural Language Autoencoders Translate LLM Activations into Readable…

    Towards AI · 2026-05-11

    Teaching Language Models to Describe Their Own Internal State (Confabulation Included)

  26. Meta and Stanford Researchers Propose Fast Byte Latent Transformer That Reduces Inference Memory Bandwidth by Over 50% Without Tokenization

    MarkTechPost · 2026-05-11

    Researchers from Meta FAIR and Stanford propose three inference methods for the Byte Latent Transformer that reduce memory-bandwidth cost by over 50% without subword tokenization.

  27. Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist

    MIT Technology Review · 2026-05-11

    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here.

  28. How Exactly AI Tools Are Leaking Your Secrets.

    Towards AI · 2026-05-11

    AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-3 and Google's LaMDA, are exhibiting vulnerabilities that allow sensitive information from their training

  29. BMO's Schleif Says AI Stampede Fueling Rally Beyond Tech

    Bloomberg · 2026-05-11

    Carol Schleif, chief market strategist for Bank of Montreal, says the buildout of AI infrastructure is lifting a broad cross section of stocks, not just a handful of tech names.

  30. RAG Was Built for Chatbots. Agents Are Breaking It. Here’s What’s Replacing It.

    Towards AI · 2026-05-11

    Vector databases are evolving beyond their initial role in powering Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for chatbots, as AI agents demand more sophisticated capabilities.