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Thursday, May 21, 2026
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★ Must ReadAnthropic says it’s about to have its first profitable quarter

Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10. 9 billion in its second quarter.

Could generative AI turn out to be the tech industry’s Vietnam? And could public backlash lead AI to a better place?
Gary Marcus

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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
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[AINews] Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Omni (NanoBanana for Video), Spark (background agents), and Antigravity 2.0

Latent Space — [AINews] Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3. 5 Flash, Omni (NanoBanana...

How America Turned Against AI According to the Poll Data: A (Very Big) Compilation

Every poll, pollster, and methodology converges on the same thing

Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic: What Happens Next

A quick review of the last 6 months

★ Must Read10 Context Management Techniques That Actually Work

Louis Bouchard — 10 Context Management Techniques That Actually Work

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 29 months earlier, is fixed.

What Can AI Actually Do? Share Your Examples

This fifth post in the IYKYK series is a call to action. In order to "lift the ceiling" on teachers' mental models of what AI can do, we need to share as many examples as possible. And not just the obvious examples, but the weird, awkward, slightly broken examples of people pushing and poking at the edges of the technology.

★ Must ReadRailway: The Agent-Native Cloud — Jake Cooper

3M Users, 100K Signups/Week, Own-Metal Data Centers, $200K+ Coding Agent Spend, and the Death of PRs

Anthropic says it’s about to have its first profitable quarter
Lucas Ropek, TechCrunch AI
Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ $200B market for Nvidia
Julie Bort, TechCrunch AI
xAI burned $6.4B last year — SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over
Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch AI
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