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Sea Limited's CPO explains why the company is deploying Codex across engineering teams to accelerate AI-native software development in Asia.

Cybersecurity firm Dragos documented the use of commercial AI models in a cyberattack against a municipal water utility in Monterrey, Mexico. Attackers used Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT to plan, develop tools, and analyze SCADA systems between December 2025 and February 2026. While they failed to breach operational technology (OT) infrastructure, Dragos warns that commercial AI lowers the barrier for attacks on critical infrastructure.

Unlike humans who start as novices and grow into experts, AI agents begin as experts but degrade with project complexity due to context window limits, leading to declining trust and the need for human oversight.

JDS is a GitHub Copilot CLI plugin that enforces structured workflows (design before code, tests before implementation, evidence-based verification), transforming AI coding assistants from autocomplete tools into disciplined software engineers. It features a multi-stage pipeline (think → plan → execute → verify → finish) with both flexible and rigid skills for different task types.

OpenAI announced it is bringing Codex to the ChatGPT app on iOS and Android, previously only available on desktop, CLI, and web. The mobile app syncs with a machine running Codex, inheriting all capabilities and credentials, and supports remote environments and enterprise features. Initial macOS-only connection, Windows coming soon.

Accenture Federal Services and OpenAI announced a strategic collaboration to help U.S. federal agencies rapidly adopt, migrate, and scale advanced AI. The partnership includes an agentic lab, trained architects, FedRAMP-ready pathways, and empowering 15,000 professionals with access to OpenAI's latest models.

Crucible is a tool designed to challenge AI confirmation bias by stress-testing ideas.

The article examines the platform trap phenomenon in AI and introduces Envelope, an AI agent solution for entire teams.

Researchers discover a general-purpose addition module in Llama 3.1 8B that uses circular representations (Fourier features) to encode numbers and perform addition, reused across tasks like month and day arithmetic. The module resides in layer 18, computes modular sums in parallel, and causal steering confirms its role.

OpenAI is going to let users access Codex, its desktop AI tool that can write code and use apps on your computer, from the ChatGPT app on your phone. Following the surge in popularity for Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI has been working quickly to try and catch up, including by cutting back on “side quests,” shutting down projects like the Sora video-generation tool, and focusing on growing its enterprise business. The company’s push included the recently released major update for Codex that lets it operate apps on macOS — a potentially major step as part of its ambitions to make a desktop “superapp.” Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app lets you use your phone to tell Codex on your computer to work on a task. With your phone, you can “work across all of your threads, review outputs, approve c…

Researchers will develop advanced tools to address complex problems on leadership-class computing systems and assist application scientists in implementation. May 14, 2026 — The changing landscape of scientific computing has prompted a new direction for two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Institutes — and Argonne researchers are helping to lead the way.

DramaBox is an open-source TTS model that turns natural language scene descriptions into expressive vocal performances, with every output watermarked for provenance. It supports 48kHz stereo broadcast-quality audio and requires no style tags or post-processing. Currently English-only.

The author reflects on how open-source communities shaped their career, from learning Python and FastAPI to landing their first job and later diving into Rust. However, AI-generated noise is now overwhelming these spaces, leading to stricter rules, bans, and cancellation of bug bounty programs. They worry that newcomers face an uphill battle with fewer genuine opportunities.

A Reddit user discovered Google's unreleased Gemini Omni video generation model, which produced a chalkboard video with legible text and natural delivery, but struggles with complex physics like a spaghetti-eating scene. The model, likely based on Veo, is expected to be officially announced at Google I/O next week.

Trayo developed AI-generated avatars for prospects without photos, initially using watercolor style but found it misleading due to invented specifics. They pivoted to faceless designs using negative-space cutouts with colored backgrounds and silhouettes, creating honest yet visually appealing defaults.

Posit AI subscription costs $20/month, with $15 allocated as API credits for Posit Assistant, aiming for sustainability over subsidized tokens. As competitors end subsidies, Posit's product value becomes the key differentiator for data science tasks.

ElviCore is an open-source project focusing on a safety-first approach to AI architecture, emphasizing robust guardrails and ethical design. Hosted on GitHub, it is currently in early stages with limited documentation.

A growing number of organizations tie AI use to performance evaluations, potentially leading to blind obedience to 'prophecies.' Audrey Tang argues that prophecy shapes the future rather than predicts it, citing Taiwan's example in semiconductors and pandemic response to show collective action can overturn seemingly inevitable trends. The key is how we choose to respond to AI's impact on labor, and to co-create a future with multiple possibilities.

Microsoft is planning to remove most Claude Code licenses by June 30, pushing developers to use GitHub Copilot CLI instead. The decision is driven by financial and strategic reasons, despite Claude Code's popularity. Anthropic models remain accessible via Copilot CLI.

IBM releases Granite Embedding Multilingual R2, two multilingual embedding models (97M and 311M parameters) built on ModernBERT, supporting 32K token context, covering 200+ languages, and achieving top scores on MTEB multilingual retrieval benchmarks. The 97M model is the best sub-100M open model, and the 311M model ranks #2 among models under 500M parameters.

Anthropic releases a paper outlining two scenarios for US-China AI competition by 2028. One where democracies maintain a commanding lead through tightened export controls and countering distillation attacks, and another where China catches up due to inaction, leading to authoritarian AI norms. The paper emphasizes the urgency of policy action to secure democratic AI leadership.

Sarah Choudhary, CEO of ICE Innovations and executive advisor, discusses the impending financial impact of AI-related layoffs and how CTOs will bear the cost twice.

Amazon launches Alexa for Shopping, a personalized AI assistant that combines Rufus product expertise with Alexa+ contextual knowledge, available on the Shopping app, website, and Echo Show. Features include direct search questions, personalized shopping guides, price history, scheduled purchases, and cross-device continuity.

Explore Emergence World, a platform where AI agents collaborate to build dynamic worlds.

Owen Yingling draws on his experiences at the University of Chicago to illustrate how AI use on campus has become a cancer that corrupts education, from student cheating to faculty lectures, and warns that elite universities are promoting AI while inadvertently creating a generation incapable of independent thought.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's 'STEM with Phones' program enables students to use smartphones and AI for advanced scientific analysis. A high school participant developed a research project measuring Earth's rotation rate, published in The Physics Teacher. Program lead David Rakestraw highlights how AI enables students to accomplish complex analyses within limited time, transforming science education.

A response to James Shore's post about AI coding agents and maintenance debt, advocating for using difficulty scores to reduce friction rather than abandoning LLM tools.

A thought experiment exploring the concept of an AI-powered corporate executive, OracleGPT, and its implications for business management.

PlanBridge is an open-source tool that lets you review AI coding agent plans like code. It intercepts the plan, allows line-by-line annotation, and sends feedback back to the agent before it writes code. Runs locally, supports Claude Code and Codex CLI, and ensures privacy.