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A short burst of immunotherapy before surgery is delivering surprisingly powerful results for a specific type of colorectal cancer. Patients in a UK-led trial who received just nine weeks of pembrolizumab prior to surgery have remained cancer-free nearly three years later—an outcome that challenges the standard approach of surgery followed by months of chemotherapy. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260505234618.htm

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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing OpenAI, alleging that the millions he spent to… Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/04/1136826/week-one-of-the-musk-v-altman-trial-what-it-was-like-in-the-room/

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The vector database category is undergoing a shift in response to the needs of agentic AI. The retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-to-vector database pipeline doesn't cut it anymore; agentic AI requires a different approach that incorporates context. VentureBeat's Q1 2026 Pulse survey underscores this trend: Every standalone vector database is losing adoption share, while hybrid retrieval intent has tripled to 33.3%, the fastest-growing strategic position in the dataset. Vector database pioneer Pinecone recognizes this and is pivoting to meet the specific needs of agentic AI. The company today announced Nexus, which it positions as a knowledge engine rather than an improvement on retrieval. Nexus introduces a context compiler that converts raw enterprise data into persistent, task-specific knowledge artifacts before agents query them, and a composable retriever that serves those artifacts with field-level citations and deterministic conflict resolution. Alongside Nexus, Pinecone is releasing KnowQL, a declarative query language that gives agents a vocabulary to specify output shape, confidence requirements, and latency budgets. In Pinecone's own internal benchmark, one financial analysis task that previously consumed 2.8 million tokens was completed by Nexus with just 4,000. This represents a 98% reduction, although the company has not yet validated it in customer production deployments. Nexus is in early access starting today. "RAG was built for human users," Pinecone CEO Ash Ashutosh told VentureBeat. "Nexus was built for agentic users, because their language is very different. The responses they expect are very different. The task that an agent is assigned to do is very different from what a chatbot is supposed to do." Why RAG was never built for what agents actually do RAG encompasses one query, one response, and a person in the loop to interpret the result. But ... Source: https://venturebeat.com/data/the-rag-era-is-ending-for-agentic-ai-a-new-compilation-stage-knowledge-layer-is-what-comes-next

'Holy Crowd,' 'Original Wound,' 'Annisa' and 'Mothers Are Mothering' were co-written and co-directed by four international creatives. Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cannes-critics-week-next-step-studio-short-films-indonesia-1236582063/

Xbox's recently-refreshed logo will become available today as a dynamic background, and also launch as both a profile background and a gamer pic on Xbox consoles. Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/xboxs-shiny-new-logo-available-today-as-a-dynamic-background-and-more

While fans wait for The Division 3, Ubisoft has just released a new The Division game on PC, and it's completely free. Following its release on mobile, The Division Resurgence is out now on PC in early access, and you can grab it now from Ubisoft Connect (it's not on Steam, however). The RPG looter-shooter is set in New York City, the same setting as the first The Division game. Ubisoft said it opted for the early-access model to help do "technical testing" ahead of the 1.0 launch in August. The game supports cross-saves and cross-progression between the PC and mobile editions. Resurgence features the franchise's PvPvE open-world Dark Zone area, while there is also a PvE campaign that Ubisoft says sheds more light on the events surrounding The Division 1 and 2. Continue Reading at GameSpot Source: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/a-new-the-division-pc-game-is-out-right-now-and-its-free/1100-6539705/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f

The U.S. economy got off to a slow start in 2026, but it appears to have finished strong at the end of the first quarter, despite the war with Iran. Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/did-the-economy-actually-get-stronger-during-the-iran-war-heres-what-the-numbers-tell-us-a27cfea7?mod=mw_rss_topstories

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