Exciting AI Updates Weekly - May 15, 2026

Exciting AI Updates Weekly - May 15, 2026 Presented by Lev Selector Slides on GDrive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dmj00iilSP-JYmriMUUaHCKz5X54e3UX?ths=true Slides on GitHub - https://github.com/lselector/seminar (click on pptx file, then on "raw" or download button on the right) ------------------------------------------------------- Question to you: Do you use a personal Digital "Employee"? If not, then why not? It is so easy to start! ------------------------------------------------------- Need AI Consulting ? - Enterprise AI Solutions - https://EAIS.ai - Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/levselector - GitHub - https://github.com/lselector ------------------------------------------------------- Our books: "Artificial Intelligence In Business: Strategies That Work" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKZ3364G/ "AI Product Manager: Building Tomorrow" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMS9NFK9/ "How to Learn with AI?: A Practical Guide for Students, Professionals, and Self-Learners" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWLNVQMJ/ "Professional + AI: Future-Proofing Your Career" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBXLCTZQ "FP&A + AI: How to Work Faster, Smarter, and Deliver More Value" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY6Z5BBW --------- Contents of today's video: 00:00 Introduction 00:11 From detailed prompt to vaguely saying "fix this" 00:25 Crowd-sourced "LM Arena" Leaderboard 00:33 Meta - Muse Spark 02:03 China Yuan 3.0 Ultra - Open Source 02:11 New Claude Code Features: /goal , /dream 03:21 Claude For Small Business Plugin 03:53 Cerebras IPO 04:49 Anthropic removing the ban against OpenClaw 05:23 Anthropic Agents View dashboard for Claude Code 05:59 Anthropic officially overtook OpenAI in business 06:20 AI Cyber Attacks 07:45 End of Chats 09:01 Hermes Agent is now #1 most used globally 10:28 AI Humor 11:01 AI Models to Know 11:21 Hallucination Tests, Leaderboards 13:57 How to Reduce Hallucination 15:53 Anthropic Co-founders 16:58 Jack Clark Interview 17:37 Anthropic Open-Sourced Wall Street 18:44 Agentic RAG 19:34 A Better, Cheaper RAG 20:34 Meta's Super Intelligent Retrieval Agent (SIRA) RAG 21:24 Markdown vs HTML 22:20 Quantum stocks exploded 22:41 OpenAI Realtime Voice Models 22:55 Progress in 3.5 years 23:55 Digital Employee 25:05 Pi.dev - minimal open-source Coding Agent 25:21 holaOS is an open agent computer 25:44 Hermes Agent and Pareto Code 26:19 Hermes "computer use" on MacOS 27:16 Pokee.ai 27:48 5 Ways to Make Money in 2026 28:12 $80M in 6 Months With No Team 28:37 Companies Are Re-hiring Developers 29:26 JobRight.ai 30:36 Jobs & Layoffs ---- Takeaways: 1. AI agents are becoming digital employees that autonomously run multi-step plans for hours with minimal supervision. 2. Hallucination has two types (summarization vs omniscience) and is reduced by grounding, citation prompts, extended thinking, and multi-model consensus. 3. RAG no longer needs vector databases - keyword search plus knowledge graphs (Meta SIRA) can deliver better accuracy at 80% less compute. ---- Quotes: "Agents are becoming better at understanding your intent." "Chats are dead. Long live agent." "Digital employee is really becoming an affordable reality." ---- Summary: In this talk I cover AI updates for May 15th. Meta released Muse Spark, a proprietary mixture-of-experts model. China released Yuan 3.0 Ultra. Claude Code added /goal and /dream, a Small Business plugin, and an agents dashboard. Cerebras IPO opened at 185 and jumped past 300. Anthropic overtook OpenAI in business adoption and lifted its ban on agent monthly subscriptions. Google found the first AI generated zero day exploit. The chat era is ending, replaced by digital employees doing autonomous work. Hermes agent passed Claude in token usage and is self-improving. Hallucination rates vary - Claude Opus near zero, Deepseek V4 Pro at 94 percent. Mitigations include grounding, citations, and consensus. RAG is shifting from vector search to keyword and graph approaches. Anthropic open-sourced Wall Street financial skills. Other items - Jack Clark interview, quantum stocks, OpenAI realtime voice, Pi.dev, HoloOS, Pokee.ai, Hermes computer use on MacOS, founder economy, companies rehiring developers, and JobRight.ai. ---- Keywords: AI agents, digital employee, Claude Code, Muse Spark, Yuan 3.0, Cerebras IPO, Anthropic, hallucination, RAG, SIRA, Hermes agent, Pareto code, quantum stocks, voice models, Pokee.ai, Pi.dev, HoloOS, JobRight.ai, Jack Clark, cyber attacks, zero day, LM Arena, knowledge graphs, founder economy, layoffs ---- ---- ----