WEEKLY DIGEST
Week in AI: May 11 — May 15, 2026
The top stories from our coverage this week.
NVIDIA AI releases Star Elastic checkpoint with nested reasoning models at 30B, 23B, and 12B scales.
marktechpost.com/2026/05/09/nvidia-ai-releases-star…
Palisade Research shows AI agents can hack computers, self-replicate, success rates jumped from 6% to 81% in one year.
the-decoder.com/ai-agents-can-now-hack-computers-an…
Figure AI’s robots work 17-hour shifts, sorting 22,000 packages daily. @FigureAI
news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMib0FVX3lxTE9HTWVzNz…
Hermes Agent overtakes OpenClaw atop OpenRouter rankings with 22M daily tokens processed.
marktechpost.com/2026/05/10/openclaw-vs-hermes-agen…
Baidu’s Ernie 5.1 cuts pre-training costs by 94% while matching top models’ performance.
the-decoder.com/baidus-ernie-5-1-cuts-94-percent-of…
63% of organizations lack AI governance policies as shadow AI proliferates, per new data.
marktechpost.com/2026/05/13/enterprise-ai-governanc…
@FastinoLabs open-sources GLiGuard safety model matching larger models’ accuracy with fewer parameters.
marktechpost.com/2026/05/13/fastino-labs-open-sourc…
HyperEyes introduces parallel multimodal search agents cutting redundant interactions with dual-grained efficiency-aware reinforcement learning.
huggingface.co/papers/2605.07177
Leiden researchers create sensorless microrobots that move using environmental interactions, no software or external control.
@LeidenUniv
robohub.org/developing-active-and-flexible-microrob…
FutureSim replays real-world events to test AI agents' adaptive decision-making in dynamic environments.
arxiv.org/abs/2605.15188v1