The 10 most important AI stories of May 27, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
SK Hynix crossed a $1 trillion valuation as AI data center demand drives memory chip prices higher and reshapes the semiconductor market. The post SK Hynix Tops $1 Trillion Valuation as AI Memory Boom Reshapes Chip Market appeared first on TechRepublic.
Agentic AI systems capable of autonomous planning and extended environmental interaction pose a fundamental control problem: how can humans maintain meaningful oversight of systems that may exceed their own capabilities? Existing approaches to scalable oversight rely on complex assumptions, remain largely heuristic, or lack practical methods for sequential settings with statistical guarantees. We introduce Calibrated Collective Oversight (CCO), which aggregates diverse auxiliary scoring function...
Health tech startup Signos announced a $20 million funding round Wednesday, including an expanded partnership with medical device giant Dexcom.
As Cognition reaches $492 million in annualized revenue run rate, it more than doubled its valuation in eight months, it says.
Merck is using AI agents to cut drug discovery cycles by a third and ship compliant marketing materials up to 80% faster — but VP of Digital Platforms Sean Finnerty says the only reason it's working is because they built the infrastructure first.And the pharmaceutical manufacturer is seeing promising early results: AI is generating marketing drafts that are “99% right” when it comes to compliance, shrinking review cycles from months to days and accelerating delivery by 70% to 80%. In the co...
Among the many Chinese AI companies and laboratories vying for market share and attention (no pun intended) on the global marketplace, MiniMax stands out for its commitment to providing frontier-level intelligence across a range of modalities, including text, coding, and video (through its Hailuo model series) — often under permissive, enterprise-friendly, standard open source licenses. Now, MiniMax is again raising the eyebrows of AI power users and developers around the world by releasing a ne...
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Mainland China-based chip giants such as Cambricon saw their shares tumble on Wednesday.
Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.
Google just revealed Omni, personalized cross-device intelligence, and Spark agents at I/O 2026. In this exclusive conversation, I sat down with Google CEO Sundar Pichai to break it all down: - Why today's AI will look "primitive like a flip phone" in 3 years - Engineers now becoming agent managers - The Omni model: "Nano Banana for video" + the future of content - Sundar's advice for young people navigating the AI shift Get 5-minute daily updates on the latest AI news: https://www.therundown.ai...
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