AI News — Sunday, May 24, 2026

Ferrari is using IBM’s AI to create F1 superfans

Radar Can Tell the Difference Between Insect Species

Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth)

Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild

Towards Speed-of-Light Text Generation with Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models

AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots

Google goes for the glitter with disco-ball icons: ‘Are y’all sure you still want this?’

Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for

US scrambles to stop Internet users re-creating dead pilots’ voices

Elon, stop trying to make Grok happen

Trump abruptly cancels EO signing event after top AI firm CEOs declined to go

Specialization Beats Scale: A Strategic Variable Most AI Procurement Decisions Overlook

Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search

The literary world isn’t prepared for AI

AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it.

The Download: coding’s future, the ‘Steroid Olympics,’ and AI-driven science

Google I/O showed how the path for AI-driven science is shifting

The Gulf’s AI Boom Has an Undersea Cable Problem

The Enhanced Games fit right in with the rest of 2026’s longevity vibes

Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis?

As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI

Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates

Roundtables: Can AI Learn to Understand the World?

Māori Text-to-Speech Model Spurns Big Tech’s Values

Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think

The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots, It’s Smarter Interfaces

OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of Earth observation models

Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.

Introducing the Ettin Reranker Family

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews