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AI & Machine Learning

Silicon Valley's Pivot to the Pentagon: How Tech Giants Are Becoming Defence Contractors

A growing number of Silicon Valley's most prominent technology companies — including Palantir, Anduril and Google — are expanding aggressively into defence contracting, selling AI-powered and computer-guided weapons systems to governments, raising significant questions about the ethics, accountability and long-term consequences of merging consumer-grade artificial intelligence with lethal military capability.

13 May·3 min
AI & Machine Learning

Medicare's New Payment Model Opens Door for AI-Powered Patient Care

A new Medicare payment model called ACCESS is quietly laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence to play a direct role in patient care, establishing for the first time a federal mechanism to reimburse AI-driven services such as remote patient monitoring, medication reminders, and social care coordination — a development that has largely flown under the radar of the broader technology industry.

13 May·3 min
Tech

Google Unveils Googlebooks, Android 17, and Sweeping AI Upgrades at Pre-I/O Android Show

Google on Tuesday unveiled a broad slate of announcements at its 'Android Show: I/O Edition' event, including a new line of Android-powered laptops called Googlebooks set to ship later this year, nine major new features coming to Android 17, and deep Gemini AI integrations across Chrome, Android Auto, and Quick Share — all ahead of next week's full Google I/O developer conference.

13 May·3 min·24 sources
AI & Machine Learning

Nautilus Compass Fixes Memory Recall Flaw One Day After Launch

Nautilus Compass, an open-source memory and drift-detection layer for production AI coding agents, released version 1.1.0 on May 12, 2026 — just 12 hours after its public stable debut — after developers discovered a critical flaw in their own production use: agents were acknowledging recalled memory files without actually consuming their contents, silently reproducing the exact mistakes those files were written to prevent.

12 May·4 min·2 sources
AI & Machine Learning

AI Researchers Tackle Long-Context Efficiency, Visual Reasoning and Clinical Diagnostics in Wave of New Papers

A cluster of AI research papers published on arXiv in May 2026 addresses some of the most pressing limitations in large language and vision models, spanning faster inference for long-document processing, more human-like visual attention in multimodal systems, improved reinforcement learning for autonomous agents, and novel clinical tools for diagnosing depression and brain disorders.

12 May·4 min·21 sources
AI & Machine Learning

Researchers Develop New Defences Against AI Visual Attacks, Targeting Deepfakes and Adversarial Images

Researchers have published two independent studies proposing novel defence mechanisms against visual adversarial attacks on AI systems, with one team introducing a plug-and-play detection framework for vision-language models and another developing a more robust deepfake video detector — both addressing significant vulnerabilities in widely deployed AI systems.

12 May·3 min·2 sources