AI in 15 — May 19, 2026

AI in 15 — May 28, 2026

Eight hundred thousand devs burning a thousand dollars a month in API tokens, three of the Big Four consulting firms standardized on Claude, and DuckDuckGo's no-AI search page up twenty-eight percent in a single week. The bubble debate is now playing out as two simultaneous arguments — about substance, and about saturation — and today's news cycle ran both at full volume.

AI in 15 — May 27, 2026

Ten thousand zero-day vulnerabilities. Across every major operating system, every major browser. And a twenty-seven-year-old bug in OpenBSD — the most security-paranoid operating system on Earth — that thousands of expert eyes missed for nearly three decades. An AI found it in weeks.

AI in 15 — May 26, 2026

Five days. That's how long it took a small team of human security researchers, working alongside a preview of Anthropic's Claude Mythos model, to find a kernel-level zero day in macOS, chain it into a privilege escalation exploit, and walk it through to a patch. Apple shipped the fix yesterday and named Claude in the CVE advisory. That has never happened before.

AI in 15 — May 25, 2026

A Pope just published a forty-thousand-word encyclical on artificial intelligence, presenting it personally alongside an Anthropic co-founder. On the same morning, OpenAI confidentially filed for what could be a one-trillion-dollar IPO, and the largest utility merger in U.S. history closed around one fact — AI data centers need more electricity than America currently knows how to build.

AI in 15 — May 24, 2026

Eight thousand Meta employees opened their email at four a.m. Singapore time and learned they were laid off. The same morning, leaked audio dropped showing Mark Zuckerberg explaining how Meta had been secretly training its AI on those same employees' Gmail, their chat logs, and their code. The implicit deal at every AI-pivoting company just got its most uncomfortable public airing yet.