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Xi's summits with Trump and Putin + China's economy loses momentum + Hong Kong dissidents

Xi's summits with Trump and Putin + China's economy loses momentum + Hong Kong dissidents c.groth Thu, 05/21/2026 - 11:57 picture alliance / Photoshot Download (pdf - 973.09 KB) MERICS Briefs MERICS China Essentials May 21, 2026 11 min read Xi's summits with Trump and Putin + China's economy loses momentum + Hong Kong dissidents Top Story Xi’s summits with Trump and Putin project Beijing as a hub of global diplomacy By hosting US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in back-to-back summits in Beijing, Xi Jinping was able to project China’s unprecedented global influence and advance its preferred worldview: building what he calls “constructive strategic stability” with the US, while enlisting Russia to push for a multipolar world order through the doctrine of “a new type of international relations.” Xi was helped by his guests appearing keen to impress. After Xi calling Taiwan “the most important issue in China-US relations,” Trump said he was “not looking to have somebody go independent” – and more generally seemed willing to finally treat China as a peer major power. After Xi implicitly criticized the US by noting that “unilateral hegemonic currents are running rampant,” Putin said China-Russia relations had reached “unprecedentedly high levels” and were “key stabilizing factors on the international stage.” Xi treated Trump with generous courtesy, managing to project confidence rather than deference. Compared with Trump’s 2017 visit to the imposing Fo…

Hermes Agent: Agents that grow with you

Open Source AI is entering a new era, one shaped by self-improving AI Agents, recursive learning systems, and rapidly evolving AI Tools that blur the line between software and autonomous collaborators. In this episode, Daniel and Chris sit down with Nous Research co-founder and CTO Jeffrey Quesnelle to explore Hermes Agent. Along the way, they discuss models vs. harnesses, the changing role of developers, and one of the biggest questions facing the AI Future: what remains uniquely human as AI capabilities continue to accelerate? Featuring: Jeffrey Quesnelle – Website , LinkedIn Chris Benson – Website , LinkedIn , Bluesky , GitHub , X Daniel Whitenack – Website , GitHub , X Links: Nous Research Hermes Agent Sponsors: Framer: The enterprise-grade website builder that lets your team ship faster. Get 30% off at framer.com/practicalai Prediction Guard: A self-hosted AI control plane for running agents in high impact environments. predictionguard.com/practicalai Upcoming Events: Register for upcoming webinars here ! Midwest AI Summit 2026

Building accessibility tools on a truly open foundation

PointCheck, an independent project, uses Molmo, MolmoWeb, and Olmo 3 to test web accessibility the way a keyboard user would—by navigating real pages and inspecting what's actually on screen.

Build a Coding Assistant with Weaviate MCP: RAG over Code & Docs

Use Weaviate's built-in MCP server to give Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code hybrid search over your codebase and docs. No glue code.

How Sunny Health Built an AI Healthcare Concierge with Qdrant

Most people don’t read their insurance pamphlet. The benefits are there: deductibles, copays, in-network providers, what dental covers, what dermatology covers, when an optometry visit is included in the medical plan. But the document is dense, the website is worse, and the result is that patients pay for plans they barely understand and delay care because finding an in-network provider with availability takes more energy than they have. Sunny Health is building a healthcare concierge that insurance companies and care providers offer to their members as part of the existing plan experience. When a member signs in (typically through SSO from their payer), Sunny Health already knows who they are and what their plan covers. They land in a chat experience where they can ask “show me dermatologists nearby,” get matched to in-network options, and have Sunny Health book the appointment on their behalf. Three things on one retrieval layer: benefits navigation, provider matching, and appointment booking.

Modal's Series C: Raising $355M at a $4.65B valuation

We've raised $355M at a $4.65B valuation to continue building the production cloud for AI.

AI Weekly Issue #494: SpaceX wants $80 billion. OpenAI wants a trillion.

For nine years the AI boom has been a private bet, priced by a small circle of venture funds and sovereign wealth in rounds most people could never touch. This week it started going public. SpaceX filed an $80 billion IPO prospectus on Wednesday, the largest in history, with a chatbot company and $6.4 billion in AI losses folded inside it. OpenAI is days from filing its own, aiming for a trillion-dollar debut by September. The public markets are about to answer the question private investors kept waving away: at what price?

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Enterprise AI Security with ClearML: A Complete Series Summary

By Adam Wolf & Damian Erangey Over a seven-part series of posts and videos, ClearML’s Enterprise AI Security series covered every layer of securing an AI platform in production, from who gets in to what gets recorded. This post brings it all together in one place: what each layer does, why it matters, and how […]

Deep Learning Indaba Impact Report 2025

Our mission to Strengthen African AI, for Africans, by Africans remains as necessary and as valued as ever. This impact report sets out how the Deep Learning Indaba continues to deliver on that mission, and the change we are enabling across Africa’s AI ecosystem. As always, we are deeply grateful to our funders, partners, and […] The post Deep Learning Indaba Impact Report 2025 appeared first on Deep Learning Indaba .

Magnificent Humanity – The Pope’s First Encyclical Concerns AI

Everything you need to know about the upcoming encyclical on AI.

What Held Up at 3 AM: One Engineer’s RAG Case Study

Most AI demos work. Most AI products don’t. This series is a collection of interviews with engineers who shipped AI agents to production, covering the stacks they chose, the architectures they regretted, and what actually held up at 3 am. This is an interview with Michael Maximilien, former CTO and Distinguished Engineer at IBM and […] The post What Held Up at 3 AM: One Engineer’s RAG Case Study appeared first on Comet .

Partnership on AI Announce New Series of Short Films on AI and Society

The post Partnership on AI Announce New Series of Short Films on AI and Society appeared first on Partnership on AI .

Training own recommendation model for diploma thesis

For part of my thesis project, I need to create a mechanism that will generate recommendations for the user based on data stored in my database. For example, the system has a list of specific tools and their descriptions. I need to create a chat that, when asked how to assemble a cabinet, will provide recommendations and a list of tools. But the list of tools must be from the database I have, not just any list, but specifically those tools provided by my system. As I understand it, I need to train some kind of model, but I don't know what I need for this or even the technologies that are needed for this. Where can I start? Can you please recommend what I should study? What ready-made examples on a similar topic can I look at? And in general, how to build the architecture of this part of the project? Thank you all very much in advance.

Etihad Rail launches today - here's what the passenger journey from Fujairah to Abu Dhabi looks like

Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia and the UAE

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Intelligence is collective, not artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria)

Michael I. Jordan, described by Science magazine as the most influential computer scientist alive, has never thought of himself as an AI researcher. In this conversation he explains why that distinction matters. SPONSOR: --- Cyber Fund built the Monastery to help founders ship products that were impossible a year ago. Applications for Batch 1 are now open. Apply now: https://cyber.fund --- Jordan trained as a statistician and cognitive scientist, and his career has been spent building machine learning systems that work in the real world: supply chains, commerce, healthcare, and large economic systems. When the field rebranded itself as AI and then AGI, he did not follow. Instead he argues that the framing is wrong. AI is better understood as a collective economic system than as a race to build a disembodied superintelligence. We talk about why AGI is mostly a PR term, what machine learning achieved before the LLM hype cycle, and why the assistant-on-your-shoulder vision may be less compelling than it sounds. Jordan explains why explanations need to be actionable, not merely mechanistic; why AlphaFold's missing error bars matter; how prediction-powered inference changes the picture; and why drug discovery is an incentive-design problem rather than a pure pattern-matching problem. ERRATA: Science magazine ranked him the most influential computer scientist, not Nature --- TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Cold open: A demoralizing message to young builders 00:02:04 CyberFund sponsor read 00…

LWiAI Podcast #245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand

OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API, Thinking Machines drops a new, highly responsive model designed for humanlike interactions in real time, and more!

Kyutai and ELLIS Tübingen launch KE:SAI

A Premier Franco-German Partnership for Open Science in Physical AI

Criminalizing truth: Gulf governments must end the crackdown on information

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How researchers built a record-setting quantum circuit

New demonstration of a 52-qubit quantum Fourier transform shows how ecosystem innovation improves algorithm performance on quantum hardware.

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Scaling reinforcement learning at Applied Compute

How Applied Compute trains custom agents with Reinforcement Learning for enterprises like DoorDash, Cognition, and Mercor on Modal.

Announcing etcd 3.7.0-beta.0

SIG-Etcd announces the availability of the first beta release of etcd v3.7.0 . This new version of the popular distributed database and key Kubernetes component includes the long-requested RangeStream feature, as well as a refactoring and cleanup of multiple legacy components and interfaces. v3.7 will deliver improved security, better operational reliability, and an improved experience for working with large resultsets. First, however, the project needs users to test the beta. You can find v3.7.0-beta.0 here: Source code Binaries Official container images Please try it out and report issues in the etcd repo . This beta also determines the EOL of version 3.4. RangeStream In etcd v3.6 and earlier, it is challenging to work with requests that return large resultsets. The client or requesting application is forced to wait for the full result set, leading to unpredictable latency and memory usage. The RangeStream RPC lets calling applications accept result sets in chunks, reducing latency and making buffering memory usage more predictable. Much of the work on RangeStream was done by a relatively new contributor to etcd, Jeffrey Ying , a software engineer at Google. New contributors can have a substantial impact on etcd development. "I've always been fascinated by database internals, and building RangeStream was a great opportunity to solve a bottleneck we were hitting in production with Kubernetes. It was the perfect opportunity to collaborate across projects and improve the ecos…

ClearML Joins the Dell AI Ecosystem Program and Launches AI Factory Blueprints, Making It Easier for Enterprises to Operationalize AI

ClearML is deepening its partnership with Dell Technologies by joining the Dell AI Ecosystem Program, announced at Dell Technologies World 2026. As part of this collaboration, ClearML is launching two pre-validated deployment blueprints — for Kubernetes and OpenShift — available in the Dell Automation Platform catalog, giving enterprises a fast path from bare metal to […]

Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026)

Assessment Window: Feb 16, 2026 – Mar 16, 2026 Download PDF Redaction summary statement: Except where explicitly noted in the report, there was no additional redacted information that was important to our conclusions from any of the participating companies. Executive summary and guide to the report Starting in February 2026, METR conducted a pilot exercise to assess misalignment risks from AI agents used inside frontier AI developers, with participation from Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI. We make three main contributions in this report, each detailed in a separate section. First, we motivate and outline the process we followed for this exercise. 1 Each participant provided: Access to their most capable internal model(s) at the time of assessment, including raw chains of thought. A wide range of non-public information about the capabilities of the shared model(s), how AI was used and monitored internally, and trends in the pace of progress. METR then prepared private reports for each participant, participants approved what non-public information could be disclosed, and METR wrote this public report. This exercise is entity-based rather than model-specific, and is designed to be repeated periodically rather than tied to public releases. Second, we present six key facts that inform our assessment, drawing on evaluations we conducted on the models that participants shared, 2 evaluations we conducted on public models, information shared by participants, 3 findings from a re…

Informe de riesgos de la IA de frontera (febrero–marzo de 2026)

Periodo de evaluación: 16 de febrero de 2026 - 16 de marzo de 2026 Descargar PDF (inglés) Declaración resumida sobre omisiones: Salvo donde se indique explícitamente en el informe, no hubo información omitida adicional de ninguna empresa participante que fuera importante para nuestras conclusiones. Resumen ejecutivo y guía del informe En febrero de 2026, METR inició un ejercicio piloto para evaluar los riesgos de desalineación de los agentes de IA usados dentro de empresas desarrolladoras de IA de frontera, con la participación de Anthropic, Google, Meta y OpenAI. En este informe hacemos tres contribuciones principales, cada una detallada en una sección separada. Primero, motivamos y describimos el proceso que seguimos para este ejercicio. 1 Cada participante proporcionó: Acceso a su(s) modelo(s) interno(s) más capaz/capaces en el momento de la evaluación, incluidas cadenas de pensamiento sin procesar. Una amplia variedad de información no pública sobre las capacidades del/de los modelo(s) compartido(s), cómo se usaba y monitoreaba la IA internamente, y las tendencias en el ritmo de progreso. Luego, METR preparó informes privados para cada participante, los participantes aprobaron qué información no pública podía divulgarse, y METR escribió este informe público. Este ejercicio está basado en entidades en lugar de ser específico para un modelo, y está diseñado para repetirse periódicamente en lugar de estar ligado a lanzamientos públicos. Segundo, presentamos seis hechos clav…

前沿 AI 风险报告（2026 年 2–3 月）

评估时段： 2026 年 2 月 16 日至 3 月 16 日 下载 PDF（英文） 关于删节： 除报告中明确标注之处外，参评公司没有删去任何会影响我们结论的重要信息。 报告摘要与导读 2026 年 2 月，METR 开展了一项试点研究，对前沿 AI 公司在实验室内部使用 AI 智能体时可能出现的不对齐风险进行了评估。Anthropic、Google、Meta 和 OpenAI 参与了这项试点。报告正文分为三部分： 第一部分中 ，我们 阐述了这项试点研究的设计动机和具体流程 1 。参与研究的各家公司向 METR 提供了： 评估期间使用其最强内部模型的权限，包括原始思维链。 大量非公开的信息，包括所共享模型的能力、公司内部使用和监测 AI 的方式，以及模型能力进展速度的趋势。 随后，METR 为每家参与公司撰写了一份内部报告。在与各公司确认内部报告中可公开的信息后，METR 撰写了这份报告。本次试点研究以 公司实体 为评估对象，而非局限于具体模型。评估将周期性进行，不与 AI 模型公开发布的时间挂钩。 第二部分中 ，我们梳理了支撑评估结论的 六项关键事实 。这些事实基于多类证据，包括：METR 对所共享的公司内部模型和公开模型的评估 2 、参与评估的公司所提供的信息 3 、近期开展的一次 嵌入式红队测试 的发现 4 、AI 模型的系统卡，以及其他公开资料。我们从三个角度组织这些事实：“手段” (means)，即智能体能否实施有害行动；“动机” (motive)，即智能体是否可能尝试这些行动；“机会” (opportunity)，即在现有防护下，这些尝试能否成功。 最后 ，我们评估了这些公司在 2026 年 2 月至 3 月这段时间里内部使用的 AI 智能体，检测其是否已经具备发起“ 失控部署 ”所需的手段、动机和机会。这里的失控部署是指一组智能体在不同强度的安全防护和检测情况下，未经授权地持续自主运行且不被人类所察觉。总体来看，我们认为评估时的内部 AI 智能体可能已经具备发起小规模失控部署的手段、动机和机会，但它们目前还缺少让这类部署高度稳健的手段。 All sources All models Incidents With risk regions Public materials METR evaluations Shared by companies ? Hypothetical Download incidents chart (PNG) Download incidents chart with risk regions (PNG) Download incidents.json × 在单独的页面上查看事件图表 鉴于模型能力提升很快，我们预计未来几个月内，失控部署可能会变得更难发现和关闭。我们暂定于 2026 年下半年开展一次类似的试点研究。 感谢 Anthropic、Google、Meta 和 OpenAI 参与本次研究。与以往的外部评估合作相比，这一流程让 METR 能更直接地接触到了内部信息，又保持了高度的编辑独立性 5 。我们由衷感谢各公司的工作人员：他们投入了大量精力，与我们共同打磨这项既无现成模板、又涉及诸多变动因素的试点流程。我们认为针对开发者内部使用 AI 所带来的风险的第三方定期评估应推广为全行业的通行做法。 Pilot process To date, third-party evaluations of frontier AI have largely focused on evaluating individu…

Four Experts on the Questions We Should Be Asking About AI Right Now

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Generating novel scientific hypotheses with Co-Scientist

In an era of information overload, the search for transformative scientific ideas has become a significant bottleneck for progress. Every great scientific breakthrough begins with a single, transformative idea. The spark of discovery relies on a researcher's ability to connect disparate facts and formulate the right hypothesis to test. We believe AI can help dramatically accelerate the pace of breakthroughs by serving as a dedicated partner in the generation and refinement of breakthrough scientific hypotheses. That’s why we’ve developed Co-Scientist, a Gemini-based multi-agent AI system that iteratively generates, debates, and evolves novel hypotheses for complex scientific problems. Read the Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10644-y and learn more at labs.google/science #googleio #ai #science ____ Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/@googledeepmind Find us on X https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind Follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/googledeepmind Add us on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepmind/

Using AI to outsmart drug-resistant bacteria

Globally recognized as a silent pandemic, antimicrobial resistance continues to rise as bacteria outpace the development of new antibiotics. When patients stop responding to standard treatments, routine infections can quickly become life-threatening. At the University of Cambridge, Ben Luisi and his team are combining structural biology with advanced AI tools like AlphaFold, Gemini, and Co-Scientist to decode these hidden defense mechanisms. By compressing a process that once took years into just minutes, they are uncovering the critical insights needed to outsmart bacterial evolution. Learn more about science at Google DeepMind: https://deepmind.google/science/ #googleio #ai #science ___ Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/@googledeepmind Find us on X https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind Follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/googledeepmind Add us on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepmind/

Understanding cancer at a genetic level with AI

In Uganda, the incidence of early-onset breast cancer is growing at an alarming rate. Dr. Daudi Jjingo and his team at Makerere University are working to identify genetic targets for potential vaccine development. By utilizing tools like AlphaFold, AlphaGenome, and Antigravity, they can conduct this research using only a laptop and a server, enabling seamless collaboration with local hospitals and institutions. By analyzing a protein highly expressed among breast cancer patients, the team successfully evaluated 15,000 potential binding sites, narrowing the scope to just 15 viable targets for laboratory validation. While a vaccine remains a future milestone, their work represents a critical step forward for global oncology and public health. Learn more about science at Google DeepMind: https://deepmind.google/science/ #googleio #ai #science ___ Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/@googledeepmind Find us on X https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind Follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/googledeepmind Add us on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepmind/

Predicting a historic storm earlier with WeatherNext

Tropical storms and hurricanes are notoriously volatile, changing structure and intensity in a matter of hours. This unpredictability makes them some of the most challenging weather systems to forecast—putting lives and livelihoods at risk. WeatherNext, our global weather forecasting AI model, successfully predicted the intensity and track of Hurricane Melissa in October 2025. By providing high-confidence signals and advanced notices days before the Category 5 storm made landfall in Jamaica, WeatherNext enabled meteorologists and local authorities to issue life-saving evacuation warnings and protect vulnerable communities. Read more about the role of AI in meteorology and how we're collaborating with institutions like the National Hurricane Center to build a more weather-resilient world: https://deepmind.google/blog/how-weathernext-helped-the-national-hurricane-center-better-predict-hurricane-melissas-historic-landfall-in-jamaica #googleio #ai #science ___ Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/@googledeepmind Find us on X https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind Follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/googledeepmind Add us on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepmind/

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Introducing the 2026 MLCommons Rising Stars

Fostering a global community of emerging leaders at the intersection of ML and systems research The post Introducing the 2026 MLCommons Rising Stars appeared first on MLCommons .

A strategic blueprint for safe health AI implementation: Your 2026 roadmap

The Health AI Implementation Toolkit is a practical five-stage framework developed by Vector Institute to help health system leaders, AI solution vendors, and clinical teams deploy AI safely and responsibly […] The post A strategic blueprint for safe health AI implementation: Your 2026 roadmap appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .

Expanding our AI and Healthcare Portfolio

The healthcare industry is ground zero for AI companies and the rollout of their products: Microsoft tells us that AI is better than doctors at diagnosing complex medical conditions. Nvidia claims that its chatbot, a partnership with the startup Hippocratic AI, can outperform nurses on detecting over the counter drug toxicities. AI firms suggest that […] The post Expanding our AI and Healthcare Portfolio appeared first on AI Now Institute .

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Announcing Claude Managed Agents on Cloudflare

Cloudflare has integrated with Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents to provide a fast, isolated execution environment for autonomous code delivery. This means builders can scale agent workflows globally while strictly controlling access to private backends and easily customizing their agent’s tools and runtimes.

OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of models

OlmoEarth v1.1 is a more efficient family of remote-sensing models that cuts compute costs by up to 3x while maintaining similar performance, making large-scale satellite mapping faster and cheaper to run.

How GoPerfect Built an Agentic Recruiting Workforce with Qdrant Cloud

GoPerfect mission is to use an AI recruiting workforce that replaces the manual, low-leverage parts of recruiting. Instead, an agent decomposes recruiter intent and runs the work end to end to find top talent. Their agentic platform handles sourcing, scanning, reviewing, outreach, admin work as well as candidate conversations for recruiters, hiring managers, agencies, and CEOs who hire at volume. Recruiting is a needle-in-a-haystack problem with two complications: the haystack is massive (200M+ profiles enriched with 1B+ data points drawn from professional networks, code repositories, company data, and AI-derived signals), and the definition of the “needle” is more nuanced than any keyword filter can express. A product manager is not a product marketer, even though the two sit close together in any reasonable embedding space.

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AI Weekly Issue #493: Meta hired $145B in capex and fired 8,000 people

Six days after we called $725B a bet on what no one wanted, the receipts started landing. Meta committed $145B to AI infrastructure the same week it began firing 8,000 people. Standard Chartered described its own cuts as replacing "lower-value human capital." Pope Leo XIV announced he'd co-launch his first AI encyclical with Anthropic's Christopher Olah at the Vatican on May 25.

EpiCache: Episodic KV Cache Management for Long-Term Conversation on Resource-Constrained Environments

Modern large language models (LLMs) extend context lengths to millions of tokens, enabling coherent, personalized responses grounded in long conversational history. However, the Key-Value (KV) cache grows linearly with the extended dialogue history, causing the model’s memory footprint to quickly exceed device limits. While recent KV cache compression methods attempt to reduce memory usage, most apply cache eviction after processing the entire context, incurring unbounded peak memory usage. Additionally, query-dependent eviction narrows the cache semantics to a single query, leading to failure…

At aged care provider Regis, AI takes on paperwork so staff can focus on residents

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Does Google Have a Claude Code Counterpunch?

Do-everything, ‘super agents’ are dominating the AI story today. Will we see one from Google this week?

Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research.

A Conversation with Carnegie Ethics Fellow Alex Urwin

This conversation features Alex Urwin, head of strategic partnerships & projects at the UK prime minister's office.

Better Experiments with LLM Evals — A funnel, not a fork

TL;DR LLM evals, automated judges that assess relevance, coherence, and quality at scale, are a powerful new... The post Better Experiments with LLM Evals — A funnel, not a fork appeared first on Spotify Engineering .

📈 Data to start your week: The cost of tokenmaxxing

Bye, bye fixed costs. Hello token anxiety.