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AI Daily Brief — 12 May 2026

Google DeepMind launched Co-Scientist — a multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research. Thinking Machines hired across supercomputing engineering. Nathan Lambert wrote on how open-model ecosystems compound, and Andrew Ng pushed back on the “AI jobpocalypse” narrative.

Top stories

  • Google DeepMind: Co-Scientist — a multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research. Research-collaboration platform for scientific work. via Google DeepMind
  • Interconnects: How open-model ecosystems compound. Nathan Lambert on the network effects in open-weights communities. via Interconnects
  • Andrew Ng: There will be no AI jobpocalypse. Pushback on the labour-market-collapse narrative. via @AndrewYNg
  • Thinking Machines hires “cluster magicians and GPU whisperers”. Public hiring push for supercomputing engineers. via @soumithchintala
  • ElevenLabs: Speech Engine SDK release. SDK update to the speech-engine integration. via ElevenLabs

Quiet corners

OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Meta (Llama), DeepSeek were absent.

By the numbers

  • 13 stories tracked across 9+ sources
  • Most-mentioned lab: Google DeepMind (Co-Scientist)
  • Notable absences: OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Meta, DeepSeek

Compiled by AI Feed”s editor from all 13 headlines published on 12 May 2026.