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# AI news, newest first, page 17

Every AI event we have logged, newest first: 1,105 events, each dated and sourced. Page 17 of 23, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened.

## Monday 1 June 2026

- [Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 for an IPO](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-01-anthropic-confidential-s1-ipo/) (Business; Anthropic). It sets up what could be one of the largest tech IPOs ever and would open a frontier AI lab's finances to public-market disclosure. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec

## Sunday 31 May 2026

- [NVIDIA unveils Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid, an open humanoid research platform built with Unitree and Sharpa](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-31-nvidia-groot-reference-humanoid/) (Robotics; NVIDIA, Unitree, Sharpa). A common hardware target for academic humanoid research is similar to what the Franka arm and DROID did for manipulation. Source: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-open-humanoid-robot-reference-design

## Thursday 28 May 2026

- [Anthropic raises $65B Series H at $965B valuation, passing OpenAI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-28-anthropic-series-h-965b/) (Business; Anthropic; major). By private valuation, Anthropic became the most valuable AI lab. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h
- [Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8 with cheaper fast mode and Claude Code "dynamic workflows"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-28-claude-opus-4-8/) (Model releases; Anthropic). Opus 4.8 was the last Opus 4.x release and a bridge to the Mythos-class releases in June. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8
- [ElevenLabs Dubbing v2 dubs speech to speech directly in 90+ languages](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-28-elevenlabs-dubbing-v2/) (Media generation; ElevenLabs). End-to-end speech-to-speech translation that keeps each speaker's performance makes AI dubbing viable for expressive film and creator content. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-dubbing-v2
- [Sesame launches its voice-companion iOS app in public preview](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-28-sesame-ios-app/) (Products; Sesame). Sesame's early-2025 demo reset expectations for conversational voice realism. Source: https://www.sesame.com/

## Wednesday 27 May 2026

- [Erdős–Szemerédi sum-product conjecture shown false over the reals](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-27-sum-product-conjecture-false-over-reals/) (Science & math; OpenAI; major). It shows AI ideas spreading into human research and then being reproduced autonomously: a feedback loop between AI and human mathematicians. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28781

## Monday 25 May 2026

- [Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas", is devoted to AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-25-magnifica-humanitas-encyclical/) (Policy & safety; Holy See). It speaks to about 1.4 billion Catholics and gives religious and moral backing to arguments about AI and labour, autonomous weapons and concentration of power. Source: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
- [Anthropic engineering](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-25-anthropic-how-we-contain-claude/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic). Two months later sandbox escapes by frontier agents (OpenAI–Hugging Face in July, Anthropic's own CTF incidents) made containment a central safety issue. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude

## Thursday 21 May 2026

- [Higgsfield's 95-minute AI feature "Hell Grind" premieres at Cannes Market screenings](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-21-hell-grind-ai-feature-cannes/) (Culture; Higgsfield AI). It marks AI video moving from shorts to feature length and into film-market settings, with a published cost breakdown ($500k, mostly compute). Source: https://x.com/higgsfield/status/2084702370764820572

## Wednesday 20 May 2026

- [OpenAI model disproves Erdős's 80-year-old unit distance conjecture](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-20-ai-disproves-erdos-unit-distance-conjecture/) (Science & math; OpenAI; historic). This is the moment AI crossed from solving competition problems to settling a famous open research conjecture, reshaping debate about AI's role in mathematics. Source: https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
- [ElevenLabs launches Speech Engine](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-20-elevenlabs-speech-engine/) (Products; ElevenLabs). It is the cascaded ("STT -> your LLM -> TTS") answer to end-to-end speech-to-speech models from OpenAI, Google and xAI. Source: https://x.com/ElevenLabs/status/2057155693623361667
- [Kyutai and ELLIS Institute Tübingen launch KE:SAI, an open-science physical-AI lab](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-20-kyutai-ellis-kesai-lab/) (Business; Kyutai, ELLIS Institute Tübingen). It is one of the few European efforts aimed at open frontier physical AI, with a public goal (an open self-driving stack) that big labs mostly pursue behind closed doors. Source: https://kyutai.org/blog/2026-05-20-kesai-launch/

## Tuesday 19 May 2026

- [Google unveils Gemini Omni, an any-to-any model that generates and conversationally edits video](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-19-gemini-omni/) (Media generation; Google DeepMind, Google; major). It rolled out to paid Gemini/Flow users and free on YouTube Shorts; API access came 30 June and Omni 1.1 Flash on 27 Aug. Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-omni/
- [Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Spark agent and Antigravity 2.0](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-19-gemini-3-5-flash-io-2026/) (Model releases; Google DeepMind, Google; major). 3.5 Flash marked the moment Google's cheap tier overtook its previous flagship (3.1 Pro) on agentic coding benchmarks, and it opened a run of four Flash releases in ~106 days. Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/
- [Google launches 'Gemini for Science' at I/O 2026](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-19-google-gemini-for-science/) (Products; Google, Google DeepMind, Google Research). Google's "AI scientist" systems moved from research demos to products. Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/research/gemini-for-science-io-2026/
- [Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team to use Claude to speed up pre-training research](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-19-karpathy-joins-anthropic/) (Business; Anthropic, Eureka Labs). It was the most visible talent move of spring 2026 and a signal of Anthropic's pull with researchers. Source: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312

## Sunday 17 May 2026

- [Torvalds: the 'continued flood of AI reports' has made the Linux kernel security list 'almost entirely unmanageable'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-17-torvalds-ai-bug-reports-linux-security-list/) (Policy & safety; Linux Foundation). This is a concrete case of AI bug-finding at scale shifting the bottleneck from discovery to triage and patching for volunteer maintainers. Source: https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/5/17/896

## Thursday 14 May 2026

- [Cerebras IPO: shares jump ~68% in Nasdaq debut after $5.55B raise](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-14-cerebras-ipo/) (Business; Cerebras Systems). Public markets now value a non-Nvidia AI chip company near $100B, validating demand for specialized inference silicon. Source: https://www.cerebras.ai/press-release/cerebras-systems-announces-pricing-of-initial-public-offering
- [arXiv will ban authors for a year if they post unchecked LLM-generated content](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-14-arxiv-one-year-ban-unchecked-ai/) (Policy & safety; arXiv). arXiv is the main distribution channel for AI and math research. Source: https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/

## Tuesday 12 May 2026

- [OpenAI launches Daybreak cyber-defense initiative with GPT-5.5-Cyber and Codex Security](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-12-openai-daybreak-cybersecurity/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI). Establishes OpenAI's "defenders first" release pattern for cyber-capable models, later used for GPT-6 Astra; it is also the civilian counterpart to the government-gated GPT-5.6 rollout. Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-extends-cyber-access-to-ukraine-for-civilian-defense/
- [Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1B Series B](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-12-isomorphic-labs-series-b/) (Business; Isomorphic Labs, Alphabet, Thrive Capital). Investors are betting heavily on AlphaFold's commercial successor. Source: https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/articles/isomorphic-labs-announces-series-b-investment-round
- [GPT-5.5 Pro finds counterexample disproving McKean's 1966 conjecture and the Gaussian completely monotone conjecture](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-12-gaussian-completely-monotone-disproved/) (Science & math; OpenAI). It is part of 2026's striking pattern of AI counterexamples: models proved especially good at finding objects that break long-believed conjectures. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11656

## Saturday 9 May 2026

- [Google DeepMind's 'AI co-mathematician' sets FrontierMath Tier 4 record and helps resolve a Kourovka Notebook problem](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-09-deepmind-ai-co-mathematician/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, University of Oxford). FrontierMath Tier 4, built to resist AI for years, was nearly half solved 18 months after launch. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06651

## Thursday 7 May 2026

- [Anthropic introduces Natural Language Autoencoders that translate model activations into readable text](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-07-anthropic-natural-language-autoencoders/) (Research; Anthropic; major). This moves interpretability from sparse features toward readable explanations of model internals, and it has a demonstrated benefit for alignment auditing. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencoders
- [OpenAI releases GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate and GPT-Realtime-Whisper](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-07-openai-gpt-realtime-2-translate-whisper/) (Model releases; OpenAI). Reasoning moved into the low-latency voice loop instead of being bolted on via a separate text model, and live translation became a standalone API product, a month before Google's Gemini 3.5 Live Translate. Source: https://openai.com/index/advancing-voice-intelligence-with-new-models-in-the-api/

## Wednesday 6 May 2026

- [Code with Claude 2026: Managed Agents "dreaming" and doubled Claude Code limits](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-06-code-with-claude-2026/) (Products; Anthropic). The conference marked Anthropic's shift toward hosted agents and showed how much compute it was lining up, including from Elon Musk's SpaceX/xAI infrastructure. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/events/code-with-claude

## Tuesday 5 May 2026

- [Ai2 releases MolmoAct 2, a fully open robot action-reasoning model that beats π0.5 on real-world tasks](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-05-ai2-molmoact-2/) (Robotics; Ai2). It is the most capable fully open VLA stack, with open data as well as weights. Source: https://allenai.org/blog/molmoact2
- [Apple agrees to $250M settlement over marketing Apple Intelligence Siri features that did not ship with iPhone 16 (Landsheft v. Apple)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-05-apple-250m-siri-ai-false-advertising-settlement/) (Policy & safety; Apple). It is a large consumer payout for overpromising AI features, and a reminder that marketing unreleased AI capabilities carries legal risk. Source: https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2026/05/06/337382.htm
- [Pennsylvania sues Character.AI over chatbots posing as licensed doctors, the first such action by a US governor](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-05-pennsylvania-sues-character-ai-fake-doctors/) (Policy & safety; Character.AI, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania). It opened a new legal route against companion-chatbot platforms: professional-licensing statutes that ban unlicensed practice. Source: https://www.pa.gov/governor/newsroom/2026-press-releases/shapiro-administration-sues-character-ai-over-fake-medical-claim

## Sunday 3 May 2026

- [Amateur with GPT-5.4 Pro 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old Erdős conjecture on primitive sets](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-03-erdos-1196-primitive-sets/) (Science & math; OpenAI; major). It was the first AI solution to a well-known, decades-old Erdős conjecture that specialists had actively worked on, not just an obscure entry. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00301

## Friday 1 May 2026

- [Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to build humanoid robot foundation models](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-01-meta-acquires-assured-robot-intelligence/) (Robotics; Meta, Assured Robot Intelligence). Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/01/meta-buys-robotics-startup-to-bolster-its-humanoid-ai-ambitions/

## May 2026, day not recorded

- [GPT-5.5 Pro-assisted construction lowers the smallest known Borsuk counterexample dimension from 64 to 63](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-01-borsuk-conjecture-dimension-63/) (Science & math; OpenAI). It is a clean, checkable improvement to a well-known geometry record. Source: https://github.com/maaxgrin/borsuk-63-counterexample

## Thursday 30 April 2026

- [1X opens Hayward NEO factory](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-30-1x-neo-factory/) (Robotics; 1X Technologies). NEO is the first humanoid sold for consumer homes at scale via preorders; whether 1X ships in 2026 is a key test of the home-humanoid market. Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/04/30/3285118/0/en/1x-opens-neo-factory-in-hayward-ca-america-s-first-vertically-integrated-humanoid-robot-factory-with-consumer-shipments-planned-for-2026.html

## Tuesday 28 April 2026

- [Google lets the Pentagon use Gemini on classified networks, a day after 600+ employees urged Pichai to refuse](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-28-google-pentagon-gemini-classified-deal/) (Policy & safety; Google, Google DeepMind, US Department of Defense). Google had pledged in its 2018 AI principles not to build weapons AI. Source: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/tech/pentagon-deal-google-ai-services/6496267/

## Monday 27 April 2026

- [Microsoft and OpenAI restructure partnership, drop the AGI clause and exclusivity](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-27-microsoft-openai-deal-restructured/) (Business; Microsoft, OpenAI; major). The change freed Microsoft to push its own first-party MAI models. Source: https://spyglass.org/the-openai-microsoft-agi-clause/
- [China blocks Meta's ~$2B acquisition of AI-agent startup Manus](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-27-china-blocks-meta-manus-acquisition/) (Policy & safety; Meta, Manus, NDRC). It is a rare case of China vetoing a US acquisition of an AI company. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/27/meta-manus-china-blocks-acquisition-ai-startup.html

## Friday 24 April 2026

- [DeepSeek V4 preview: a 1.6T-parameter open MoE running on Huawei Ascend](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-24-deepseek-v4-preview/) (Model releases; DeepSeek; historic). V4 was the largest open-weights model at release and the first frontier-class release optimized for a Chinese AI accelerator, a signal that China's model stack can decouple from Nvidia. Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/

## Thursday 23 April 2026

- [OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 (codename Spud)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-23-gpt-5-5/) (Model releases; OpenAI; major). GPT-5.5 was OpenAI's flagship for most of Q2 2026 and the base for its cyber-defense strategy; its Instant variant brought the generation to free users. Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/

## Wednesday 22 April 2026

- [Google unveils eighth-generation TPUs, split into TPU 8t and TPU 8i](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-22-google-tpu-8t-8i/) (Chips & compute; Google). Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/eighth-generation-tpu-agentic-era/

## Monday 20 April 2026

- [Apple names hardware chief John Ternus as CEO from Sept 1, 2026](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-20-apple-ternus-succeeds-cook-ceo/) (Business; Apple). Apple is the largest consumer-device maker shipping on-device generative AI. Source: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/

## Sunday 19 April 2026

- [Honor's humanoid 'Flash' wins Beijing robot half-marathon in 50:26, beating human world record](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-19-robot-wins-beijing-half-marathon/) (Robotics; Honor). A symbolic milestone for legged locomotion hardware and control — a machine-built humanoid outrunning elite human endurance times — though endurance running says little about manipulation. Source: https://www.npr.org/2026/04/20/g-s1-118086/humanoid-robot-half-marathon

## Friday 17 April 2026

- [OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a trusted-access reasoning model for life-sciences research](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-17-openai-gpt-rosalind/) (Model releases; OpenAI). It is part of the 2026 race among frontier labs for AI-for-science products (Anthropic's Claude Science, Google's Gemini for Science). Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-rosalind/
- [Kevin Weil and Sora lead Bill Peebles leave OpenAI as it folds OpenAI for Science into other teams and sheds 'side quests'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-17-kevin-weil-bill-peebles-leave-openai/) (Business; OpenAI). It marks the end of two of OpenAI's most visible bets of 2024–25, consumer video and a standalone science division. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/kevin-weil-and-bill-peebles-exit-openai-as-company-continues-to-shed-side-quests/

## Thursday 16 April 2026

- [Physical Intelligence's π0.7 shows compositional generalization to untrained robot tasks](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-16-physical-intelligence-pi-0-7/) (Robotics; Physical Intelligence; major). Emergent, promptable generalization is what would let general-purpose robots be deployed without per-task data collection. Source: https://www.pi.website/blog/pi07
- [Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, admits it trails the unreleased Mythos Preview](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-16-claude-opus-4-7/) (Model releases; Anthropic). It was the first time a lab shipped a flagship while publicly saying it had a stronger model it would not release. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7

## Wednesday 15 April 2026

- [Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies' robotics division (formerly Fetch Robotics) to put its robot brain in warehouses](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-15-skild-ai-acquires-zebra-fetch-robotics/) (Business; Skild AI, Zebra Technologies). Robot-foundation-model startups need real deployments for data and revenue. Source: https://www.skild.ai/blogs/skild-zebra

## Tuesday 14 April 2026

- [Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-14-gemini-robotics-er-1-6/) (Robotics; Google DeepMind, Boston Dynamics). It is a concrete, measurable commercial use of a frontier multimodal model inside a deployed robot fleet. Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-1-6/

## Friday 10 April 2026

- [Sam Altman's San Francisco home hit by a Molotov cocktail and, two days later, by gunfire](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-10-altman-home-molotov-gunfire-attacks/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI). It is the most serious act of violence against an AI leader so far linked to anti-AI views. Source: https://blog.samaltman.com/2279512

## Thursday 9 April 2026

- [AgiBot releases GO-2 embodied foundation model with action chain-of-thought](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-04-09-agibot-go-2/) (Robotics; AgiBot). Chinese humanoid makers are building their own robot foundation models, not just hardware. Source: https://www.agibot.com/article/231/detail/56.html

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