AI Daily Brief — 27 May 2026
Microsoft Research published “Extending Human Intelligence Through AI”, Sakana AI dropped DiffusionBlocks (training neural networks one block at a time), and Qwen 3.5 hit a record-breaking 580 tokens-per-second on agentic workloads. Amazon announced its Research Awards recipients, and rasbt covered MiniMax M2 — one of the most widely used open-weight LLM series of earlier 2026.
Top stories
- Microsoft Research: Extending Human Intelligence Through AI. Long-form essay on Microsoft Research”s vision for the next decade of AI partnership. via Microsoft Research
- Sakana AI: DiffusionBlocks — training neural networks one block at a time. Research-blog drop on a novel block-wise training approach. via Sakana AI
- Qwen 3.5 hits a record-breaking 580 tps on agentic workloads. Alibaba showcased the throughput milestone. via Qwen
- Google Research: Private analytics via zero-trust aggregation. New privacy-preserving aggregation system from Google Research. via Google Research
- rasbt: MiniMax M2 series update. A round-up of the widely-used open-weight series. via @rasbt
Who shipped
Amazon Science announced its Fall 2025 Research Awards recipients. Demis Hassabis amplified Pushmeet Kohli”s American Academy of Arts and Sciences essay. IEEE Spectrum argued that South Africa has AI leverage but its draft policy leaves it unused.
Open-source pulse
Qwen 3.5 throughput record + MiniMax M2 round-up made it a strong open-weights day from the China-labs side.
Quiet corners
Anthropic, OpenAI models, Mistral, Meta (Llama), DeepSeek were absent.
By the numbers
- 18 stories tracked across 13+ sources
- Most-mentioned model: Qwen 3.5
- Most-mentioned lab: Microsoft Research
- Notable absences: Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, Meta, DeepSeek
Compiled by AI Feed”s editor from all 18 headlines published on 27 May 2026.