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This Week in All Things AI - Week 21-2026

Sunday 17th May 2026 to Saturday 23rd May 2026

This Week in All Things AI covers key developments in models, agents, tools, infrastructure, and policy curated from discussions in the All Things AI Telegram group.

If you follow AI for work, research, investing, or just to understand where the technology is heading, this weekly brief is a concise way to scan the most important launches, risks, and resources in a few focused minutes.

Across the week, we saw advances in agentic coding and web tooling (Cursor’s Composer 2.5, Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash, Modern Web Guidance), major moves in AI infrastructure and pricing (Anthropic’s expanded Colossus 2 deal with SpaceX, DeepSeek’s permanent discount on V4‑Pro), a wave of creative tools (Krea 2 and several AI‑assisted video editors), and notable policy and geo developments from Pope Leo XIV’s forthcoming AI encyclical to Singapore’s latest AI initiatives.

The sections that follow walk through these items day by day, with short context and links so you can dive deeper into the pieces most relevant to your work or interests.


Sunday 17th May 2026

Monday 18th May 2026

Tuesday 19th May 2026

Cursor’s biggest model upgrade yet. Strong gains in long-running agentic coding tasks, reliability with complex instructions, and up to 10x better cost efficiency. It’s built on Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 and reportedly performs on par with top frontier models in some real-world evaluations. Cursor is also training a much larger model from scratch with SpaceXAI on a massive Colossus 2 cluster.

The Vatican announced that Pope Leo XIV’s first major encyclical on AI will be released on May 25. It will focus on human dignity and “the protection of the human person in the age of AI.” It is being prepared in collaboration with an Anthropic co-founder.

Cloudflare tests Mythos against 50+ repositories, highlights its ability to chain bugs into a single exploit, and details a vulnerability discovery harness

Krea 2 (also called K2 or Krea 2 Large) is Krea AI’s first proprietary foundation image model

It was built entirely from scratch  with a deliberate focus on aesthetics, style transfer, creative control, and artistic exploration rather than literal prompt transcription or maximum photorealism

It forms part of the broader Krea.ai platform—an all-in-one creative AI suite that aggregates 100+ models  for images, video, 3D, editing, upscaling, and fine-tuning under one subscription

They are offering unlimited Krea 2 generations to all their subscribers for the entire week.

Wednesday 20th May 2026

via Robby Yung

Gemini Spark is Google's new cloud-based 24/7 personal AI agent announced at I/O 2026, designed to autonomously handle tasks in the background even when devices are off while requiring user approval for major actions.

Initial rollout targets trusted testers this week and U.S. Google AI Ultra subscribers next week in beta, with enterprise availability planned through Google Workspace and Gemini Enterprise.

Summer roadmap includes MCP integrations, macOS support, email/text interaction, Chrome browser control, and subagent creation to expand proactive capabilities.

Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O Conference

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, generally available now and touted as its strongest model for agentic workflows like multi-step tool use and terminal coding. Benchmarks show it topping prior versions on key tests, holding ground against rivals like Claude 3.5 Sonnet, though independent reviews note mixed results on cost and performance. 

The event also introduced Gemini Omni for video creation, Spark as a 24/7 personal agent, developer tools like Antigravity 2.0, plus consumer updates to Search and the Gemini app—ushering in what execs call the agentic era.

Google Launches Modern Web Guidance for AI Coding Agents

At Google I/O 2026, the company unveiled Modern Web Guidance, an early preview toolset that equips AI agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot with skills for the latest browser APIs, layouts, and performance techniques. It tackles legacy patterns by injecting concise prompts drawn from Chrome's Baseline initiative, boosting agent success on modern tasks from 52% to 86% in early tests. Backed by Chrome and Microsoft Edge teams, plus experts like Lea Verou, it offers easy installation via a simple npx command and covers real-world uses from CSS animations to WebAuthn logins.

Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022, how AI could shake up law firms' business models, legal AI competition, and more

https://www.ft.com/content/47eafdcb-5a0a-4515-a07a-70e89ad2fa78?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Thursday 21st May 2026

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25B/mo. until May 2029 under their compute deal; Anthropic says it's expanding the deal to include Colossus 2 capacity

FYI,  in case some in this group find the below useful for their personal and professional workflows.  Personally I consider video-editing as something akin to 'magic of the dark arts' so huge respect to practioners of this craft. 

The below are a links to websites of AI assisted video editing tools I've come across (in no particular order),  pretty sure these are but a small fraction of tools out there.  

Within this list I'm not mentioning the usual suspects such as Premiere,  Final Cut Pro, Davinci Resolv, Capcut

If any of these do end up being used by you/your team,  do share your experiences with this group so that others can also benefit from your learnings

via Alex

SpaceX S1 fillings is a good read for SciFi fans like me. Emphasizing Fiction here 😂
 Claiming capabilities to launch 100GW of compute to LEO when hyperscalers are barely able to do 1GW on earth. Claiming 220B daily token usage when the actual xAI usage numbers seem to be more like 15B tokens daily. Claiming the TAM for xAI is over 20T$.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm

via Alba Chung of Alibaba Cloud

Qwen3.7-Max — now available viaAlibaba Cloud Model Studio:

- frontier coding agent: from frontend prototyping to complex software engineering

- office productivity and workflow automation via MCP and multi-agent orchestration

- sustained autonomous execution across long-horizon tasks

-cross-scaffold generalization across diverse agent frameworks

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albachung 

Feel free to PM me for more details.🙌🏼

Friday 22nd May 2026

Singapore firing on all cylinders

• OpenAI first AI lab outside of the US is Singapore 

• Anthropic’s lead investor for their Series G is GIC (Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund)

• NVIDIA chose Singapore for their research hub

• Google Deepmind is strengthening its partnership with Singapore

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/nvidia-to-launch-singapore-research-hub-as-city-state-boosts-ai-plans.html

Saturday 23rd May 2026

Zero to Claude Code Course Draws 18,000 Beginners Worldwide

The Zero to Claude Code course guides users from terminal basics to advanced AI techniques like prompt engineering and subagents, with hands-on projects including a real-time game capstone. Launched recently at zero2claude.dev it has enrolled over 18,000 students globally, running on a high-performance site that Itay Shmool, VP @ WIX  created solo with Claude Code

In the world of increasing prices for models,  Deepseek says that they have made their 75% discount originally ending May 31st 2026 for V4-Pro permanent if one uses DeepSeek's inference endpoint.   
Recommend group members do their own research to interpret the terms of service/privacy policy under which Deepseek's own  inference endpoint is served   Deepseek v4-Pro is an open-source/open weight model so there are many inference providers which serve this model and each inference provider serves it under their  own ToS/privacy policy

via Robby Yung

an AI demo where Gemini Omni transforms a Google Maps screenshot with a drawn route into a realistic first-person taxi driving video through city streets, complete with accurate buildings, traffic, and dashboard details.


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