Exciting AI Updates Weekly - May 29, 2026

Exciting AI Updates Weekly - May 29, 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 From prompting to directing agents 00:00 From capability to trust 00:11 Crowd-sourced "LM Arena" Leaderboard 00:44 Claude Opus 4.8 03:18 Cursor's Composer 2.5 Model 05:04 Token costs 06:38 Cohere Command A+ is open sourced 06:59 Coding today is mostly done by AI 07:31 DeepSeek-V4 Pro 75% Discount is permanent 07:39 Use "news.google.com/foryou" 08:19 Users are Upset about Gemini 3.5 Flash 09:41 MCP Tunnels - Anthropic & OpenAI 12:14 Use Cheaper Sub-Agent Models in Claude Code 13:38 Harness engineering - a system around the model 14:35 Hermes Runs Codex and Claude In One Agent 14:44 ECC (Everything Claude Code) 15:52 Hermes, OpenClaw 16:16 Why Google invested $40B in Anthropic 18:20 Anthropic $65 Bln funding at $900 Bln Valuation 19:12 Dr. McCoy - Compassion vs AI 19:28 Claude Managed Agents on Cloudflare 20:13 Google AI Co-Scientist 20:56 AutoResearchClaw 21:19 DeepSeek "Thinking-with-Visual-Primitives" paper 21:51 OpenAI Model solves 80y old math problem 22:30 OpenSpec spec-driven development 23:32 HASP (Harnessing LLM Agents with Skill Programs) 24:17 AI Compute Cost Exceeds Employee Salaries 26:20 Quantum-informed AI for Chaotic Processes 27:16 Top View Agent V2 - Video Generation 27:47 Multiverse Computing - LLM + quantum blocks 28:26 AI Will Deliver Wisdom 29:15 Ant Group - Ring 2.6-1T Model 29:47 Robots 30:15 Quantum is Breaking Encryption 31:08 Obsidian - for Memory, RAG, MCP 32:43 Medvi.org 33:53 9 AI Skills to Become Rich in 2026 34:06 Startup Solo With AI Agents - Ryan Carson 34:47 Jack Dorsey wants to flatten org chart 35:31 Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow has Fired Entire HR Team 35:46 Jobs & Layoffs ---- Takeaways: 1. AI work is shifting from writing prompts to directing fleets of agents, with judges and adversarial verification making the agents more trustworthy and less prone to hallucination. 2. Individual token prices keep falling, yet total bills rise because agents consume far more tokens per task, so AI compute cost is starting to rival human salaries. 3. Anthropic and Claude now dominate the enterprise market, raising 65 billion at a 900 billion valuation and drawing massive investment from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. ---- Quotes "From prompting to directing agents. From capability to trust." "The engineer of the future is a builder, someone who decides what to make and directs AI to make it rather than writing the code themselves." "Intelligence solves problems while wisdom chooses which problem to solve." ---- Summary: In this Friday AI update I walk through dozens of developments. Claude Opus 4.8 launches as the new default with a fast mode and dynamic ultra-code workflows that spawn many parallel sub-agents verified by judges. Cursor releases its Composer 2.5 coding model, and cheaper Chinese models and DeepSeek discounts push token prices down even as overall usage and costs climb past employee salaries. I cover harness engineering, MCP tunnels, using cheaper sub-agent models, and tools like Hermes, ECC, OpenClaw, and OpenSpec. On the business side, Anthropic raises record funding and dominates enterprise, Google invests heavily, and companies flatten org charts and cut jobs as AI takes over routine work. I also touch on quantum-informed AI, robots, Obsidian for memory, and solo founders building profitable AI-run businesses. ---- Keywords: Claude Opus 4.8, AI agents, sub-agents, token costs, harness engineering, MCP tunnels, Anthropic funding, Cursor Composer, DeepSeek, quantum AI, Obsidian, layoffs, enterprise AI, coding agents ---- ---- ----