Exciting AI Updates Weekly - May 8, 2026

Exciting AI Updates Weekly - May 8, 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 In 2026, your agents have agents 00:15 Crowd-sourced "LM Arena" Leaderboard 00:53 Deepseek-TUI Harness 01:51 Anthropic Wall Street $1.5 Bln Partnership 02:13 Anthropic SpaceX Compute Deal 02:47 Anthropic Claude Security 03:04 New in Claude Managed Agents 04:20 xAI Grok Connectors 05:07 OpenSwarm AI - open-source multi-agent system 05:41 Agentic AI Communication Chain 06:42 Perplexity Workflows 06:59 Miscellaneous AI news 08:12 OpenClaw Updates 08:48 Hermes Agent Curator 09:07 No AI Agent Orchestration Needed 10:42 Harness more important than the model 11:12 InsForge - Backend for AI Coding Agents 11:45 Google Deepmind AI co-clinician 12:08 TradingAgents 12:32 Superpowers Agentic Framework 13:18 Andre Karpathy - talk at Sequoia Event 15:14 Boris Cherny: Why Coding Is Solved 16:13 How Claude Code Works 17:05 Higgsfield AI - Cinematic AI Videos 17:29 Suno AI Music Generation 18:15 Microsoft Copilot Actions and Cowork 18:42 Codex CLI's new "/goal" feature 19:08 Hermes Agent "goals" system 19:23 Google Remy competes with OpenClaw 19:44 OpenAI GPT 4.5 Instant 20:00 HyperFrames open-source HTML-to-video 20:48 Unity AI in open beta for Unity 6 developers 21:05 Zed Editor vs VS Code 24:14 Jujutsu Version Control 24:55 Weave and Mergiraf - Better Merge 25:23 Jack Dorsey Lays off 4K workers 25:58 Mo Gawdat on How to Position Yourself 26:37 Jobs & Layoffs ---- Takeaways: 1. Harness engineering now matters more than the model itself. Same model with a different harness can yield up to six times the performance, and audit the harness before switching models. 2. Frontier models have become smart enough to handle complex tasks holistically. Heavy multi-agent orchestration often fragments reasoning and produces worse results than a single capable model. 3. Coding is becoming democratized. Boris Cherny calls it a printing press moment where AI agents enable anyone to build software regardless of technical background. ---- Quotes: "This year, your agents have agents." "While we can outsource thinking to AI, we cannot outsource understanding or taste." "Vibe coding raises the floor and agentic engineering raises the ceiling." ---- Summary: In this weekly AI update from May 8, 2026, Lev Selector reviews dozens of developments. Anthropic leads the arena and signed major Wall Street and SpaceX compute deals. Multiple agentic frameworks emerged, including Hermes, Superpowers, OpenSwarm, and Codex goal feature. A key paper shows harness engineering matters more than the model, with six times performance differences possible. Frontier models are now capable enough to handle complex tasks without multi-agent orchestration. Boris Cherny declares coding solved, calling it a printing press moment. Karpathy spoke at Sequoia about agentic engineering versus vibe coding. Tools highlighted include Zed editor, Jujutsu version control, Weave merging, Higgsfield video, Suno music, and HyperFrames. Layoffs continue with PayPal cutting almost 5000 and Jack Dorsey laying off 4000 as companies pivot to AI. ---- Keywords: agents, harness engineering, Anthropic, Claude Code, SpaceX, OpenSwarm, Hermes, Superpowers, Karpathy, Boris Cherny, agentic engineering, vibe coding, Zed, Jujutsu, Suno, Higgsfield, Codex, Copilot, InsForge, GPT 4.5, layoffs ---- ---- ----