AI News 2026-05-31

Research Insights

• Anthropic: Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude’s thoughts into text (Neuronpedia). Using cyclic translation consistency (between latent space and interpretable text), they are able to read out model internal thoughts.
  • Paper: Natural Language Autoencoders Produce Unsupervised Explanations of LLM Activations.

Safety

• METR announce Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026), evaluating frontier model behaviors.

Interface

• Thinking Machines demos real-time duplex interaction with a multi-modal model: Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration.
• Google talks about training a model that can intuit aspects of a request by watching mouse pointer movement: Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era.

LLM

• Google announce Gemini 3.5 Flash, with strong capability-to-cost ratio.
• Anthropic adds Claude Opus 4.8. It’s a good model.
  • The announcement notes: “…expect to be able to bring Mythos-class models to all our customers in the coming weeks.”
• Claude Code adds dynamic workflows, allowing Claude to dynamically manage work.

Agents

• Google announce Gemini Spark, a personal agent.

Multi-modal

• Google announce Gemini Omni, which allows natural language video editing (“Nano Banana for video”).

Audio

• ElevenLabs reduces pricing.
• ElevenLabs announces Music v2.
• OpenAI release new intelligent voice models, in the API.

Video

• Rumors of a forthcoming update to Google’s video capabilities (Veo 4? Gemini Omni Video?).
• Long from genAI video content is starting to appear:
  • Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (46m, fan film)
  • One of a Kind (2h20m, Feature Film made by WuxIA Rocks)

Science

• AI finds 100+ hidden planets in NASA data including rare and extreme worlds.
  • RAVEN: RAnking and Validation of ExoplaNets
  • Demographics of close-in TESS exoplanets orbiting FGK main-sequence stars
  • Automatic search for transiting planets in TESS–SPOC FFIs with raven: over 100 newly validated planets and over 2000 vetted candidates
• Google announce Gemini for Science: Literature Insights (based on Notebook LM), Hypothesis Generation (built on Co-Scientist), and Computational Discovery (based on AlphaEvolve and ERA).
• Google DeepMind solved 9 Erdős problems: Advancing Mathematics Research with AI-Driven Formal Proof Search
• OpenAI demonstrates math discovery on the Unit Distance Problem: An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

Robots

• Genesis AI demo their GENE-26.5 robot control model.