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Brief 3 min read 32 stories from 8 sources

AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots · Ferrari is using IBM’s AI to create F1 superfans

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for May 24, 2026 — 25 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Radar Can Tell the Difference Between Insect Species IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  2. Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth) TechCrunch
  3. Google goes for the glitter with disco-ball icons: ‘Are y’all sure you still want this?’ TechCrunch
  4. Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for The Verge
  5. Elon, stop trying to make Grok happen The Verge
  6. Trump abruptly cancels EO signing event after top AI firm CEOs declined to go Ars Technica
  7. Specialization Beats Scale: A Strategic Variable Most AI Procurement Decisions Overlook Hugging Face
  8. Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search Wired
  9. The literary world isn’t prepared for AI The Verge
  10. AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it. Ars Technica
  11. The Download: coding’s future, the ‘Steroid Olympics,’ and AI-driven science MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. The Gulf’s AI Boom Has an Undersea Cable Problem Wired
  13. The Enhanced Games fit right in with the rest of 2026’s longevity vibes MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  14. Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis? Wired
  15. As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI Ars Technica
  16. Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates Wired
  17. Roundtables: Can AI Learn to Understand the World? MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  18. Māori Text-to-Speech Model Spurns Big Tech’s Values IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  19. Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of Earth observation models Hugging Face
  21. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  22. Introducing the Ettin Reranker Family Hugging Face
  23. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  24. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  25. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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