Truth Predict was supposed to be the Trump family’s biggest leap yet into prediction markets. Now it’s looking more like a tiptoe. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/trump-media-scales-back-plans-for-its-own-prediction-market/

The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/ilya-sutskever-testifies-musk-v-altman-trial/

China’s Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant, wall-smashing mecha. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/unitree-gd01-mecha-robot/

In finance departments that have long been defined by precision and control, AI has arrived less as a neatly managed upgrade than as a quiet insurgency. Employees are already using it while leadership races to impose structure, governance, and strategy after the fact. The result is a paradox: one of the most tightly regulated functions… Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/11/1136786/implementing-advanced-ai-technologies-in-finance/

Despite years of digitization, organizations capture less than one-third of the value expected from digital investments, according to McKinsey research. That’s because most big companies begin with technological capabilities and bolt applications onto them, rather than starting with customer needs and working backward to technology solutions. Not prioritizing the customer can create fragmented solutions; disjointed… Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/11/1136967/fostering-breakthrough-ai-innovation-through-customer-back-engineering/

The changes may be less perceptible than in smartphones, tablets, or wearables, but chargers have also been quietly reinvented over the last decade. At one time a bulky mix of tangled cables and connectors, slow to perform and prone to overheating, they’re now smaller, safer, and faster, thanks to a slew of technological advances. These… Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/11/1136406/innovation-abounds-in-device-charging/

There’s a deep, forbidding moat that surrounds Nvidia—and it has nothing to do with hardware. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/cuda-proves-nvidia-is-a-software-company/

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s what you need to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak Last week, eight passengers aboard a Dutch-flagged cruise ship contracted a type of hantavirus transmitted by rats. Three have… Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/11/1137031/the-download-hantavirus-outbreak-musk-altman-trial/

OpenAI’s chatbot has some weird linguistic tics in Chinese that are driving users crazy. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-chinese-catch-you-steadily-sycophancy/

Today on Uncanny Valley, we’re diving into recent reports that the Trump administration is considering an executive order that would establish some sort of federal oversight over new AI models. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-trump-pivots-ai-regulation-worker-ousted-by-doge-runs-for-office-hantavirus-explained/

Technology is changing the way we make babies. The pioneering work of the scientists who invented IVF led to the birth of the first “test tube baby” in 1978. We’ve come a long, long way since then. This week, I’ve been working on a piece about the cutting edge of IVF technologies and what’s coming… Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/08/1136974/heres-how-technology-transformed-babymaking-ivf/

Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. The bad? You might not want to. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/you-can-disable-gemini-in-chrome-if-its-freaking-you-out/

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Eight passengers aboard a Dutch-flagged cruise ship have contracted a type of hantavirus, a rare virus transmitted by rats. Three of them have died. As the ship… Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/08/1136988/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-cruise-ship-hantavirus-outbreak/

In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny. Last week, Musk took the stand, alleging that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into donating $38 million to the company. He claimed that they’d promised to maintain… Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/08/1137008/musk-v-altman-week-2-openai-fires-back-and-shivon-zilis-reveals-that-musk-tried-to-poach-sam-altman/

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’ve entered the era of AI malaise AI is spreading everywhere, and it is not going away. But what will it do? What effect will it have on our society? Will… Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/08/1136985/the-download-ai-malaise-babymaking-ivf-tech/

The philosopher thinks humans should pursue advanced AI and the promise of a “solved world.” Source: https://www.wired.com/story/nick-bostrom-has-a-plan-for-humanitys-big-retirement/

Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-executives-discuss-openai-sam-altman-2018/

Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled a suite of updates to its Claude Managed Agents platform at its second annual Code with Claude developer conference in San Francisco, introducing a new capability called "dreaming" that lets AI agents learn from their own past sessions and improve over time — a step toward the kind of self-correcting, self-improving AI systems that enterprises have demanded before trusting agents with production workloads. The company also moved two previously experimental features — outcomes and multi-agent orchestration — from research preview into public beta, making them broadly available to developers building on the Claude platform. Together, the three features address what Anthropic says are the hardest problems in running AI agents at scale: keeping them accurate, helping them learn, and preventing them from becoming bottlenecks on complex, multi-step work. Early adopters are already reporting significant results. Legal AI company Harvey saw task completion rates increase roughly 6x after implementing dreaming. Medical document review company Wisedocs cut its document review time by 50% using outcomes. And Netflix is now processing logs from hundreds of builds simultaneously using multi-agent orchestration. The announcements come at a moment of extraordinary momentum for Anthropic. CEO Dario Amodei disclosed during a fireside chat at the conference that the company's growth has outpaced even its own aggressive internal projections. In the first quarter of 2026, Anthropic saw what Amodei described as 80x annualized growth in revenue and usage — far exceeding the 10x annual growth the company had planned for. API volume on the Claude platform is up nearly 70x year over year, and the average developer using Claude Code now spends 20 hours per week working with the tool. "We tried to plan very well for a world of 10x growth per year," Amodei said. "An... Source: https://venturebeat.com/technology/anthropic-introduces-dreaming-a-system-that-lets-ai-agents-learn-from-their-own-mistakes

Presented by SAP The enterprise software industry has undergone a fundamental shift, and vendors are adapting their approaches to better protect the customers who rely on them. For years, every global platform vendor running multi-tenant cloud infrastructure has maintained documented rate limits, usage controls, and restrictions on the use of undocumented internal interfaces. CRM platforms impose daily API call limits per organization, enforce platform-layer limits, and maintain a strict separation between bulk data APIs and transactional REST surfaces. Productivity and collaboration suites throttle their graph APIs and redirect bulk workloads to purpose-built data access channels designed for that load. HR and workforce management platforms enforce concurrent request limits and per-session data retrieval caps. IT service management platforms enforce per-user rate limits and instance-level throttling. Hyperscalers publish per-service quotas, enforce them at the infrastructure layer, and explicitly prohibit applications from calling non-SDK or non-published interfaces. These are not controversial measures. They are baseline hygiene for enterprise-grade software platforms operating shared infrastructure at scale. For more than a decade these measures have been in place without serious objection. As SAP has taken responsibility for securing customers' mission-critical workloads in the cloud, a unified API policy with clarified usage controls is not a restriction but the expression of enterprise-grade stewardship. Some have read the policy as a new restriction. The policy does not introduce new restrictions. It names and unifies controls that have existed across individual SAP products for years. SAP is not introducing API governance as a novel concept. SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP LeanIX, and several other SAP solutions have enforced documented rate limits and usag... Source: https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/governance-not-gatekeeping-how-sap-brings-enterprise-grade-safety-to-ai-connectivity

Just a few weeks after announcing Claude Managed Agents, Anthropic has updated the platform with three new capabilities that collapse infrastructure layers like memory, evaluation, and multi-agent orchestration, into a single runtime. This move could threaten the standalone tools that many enterprises cobble together. The new capabilities — 'Dreaming,' 'Outcomes,' and 'Multi-Agent Orchestration' — aim to make agents inside Claude Managed Agents “more capable at handling complex tasks with minimal steering,” Anthropic said in a press release. Dreaming deals with memory, where agents “reflect” on their many sessions and curate memories so they learns and surface unknown patterns. Outcomes allows teams to define and set specific rubrics to measure an agent's success, while Multi-Agent Orchestration breaks jobs down so a lead agent can delegate to other agents. Claude Managed Agents ideally provides enterprises with a simpler path to deploy agents and embeds orchestration logic in the model layer. It’s an end-to-end platform to manage state, execution graphs, and routing. With the addition of Dreaming, Outcomes and Multi-agent Orchestration, Claude Managed Agents expands capabilities even further and directly competes with tools like LangGraph or CrewAI, as well as external evaluation frameworks, RAG memory architectures, and QA loops. An integration threat Enterprises must now ask: Should we ditch our flexible, modular system in favor of an agent platform that brings almost everything in-house? Anthropic designed Claude Managed Agents to share context, state, and traceability in one place. This means the platform sees every decision agents make, rather than enterprises having to wire separate systems together. It sounds practical to have one platform that does everything. But not all enterprises want a full-service system. Claude Managed Agents already faces criticism th... Source: https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/anthropic-wants-to-own-your-agents-memory-evals-and-orchestration-and-that-should-make-enterprises-nervous