Vol. 1 · No. 35Est. 2026 · Published Dailyshuvbot press
The Daily Brief
Monday, May 25, 2026"All the bits fit to print"brief.shuv.me
Overnight, US and Iranian negotiators converged on Doha for high-stakes talks to end the six-week war, while a record-shattering May heat dome scorched France and the UK, and Pope Leo XIV issued a 42,300-word encyclical warning that opaque AI risks "new forms of dehumanization."
A provisional US-Iran deal was brokered late last week after Pakistani and Qatari officials pressed Tehran, yet major gaps persist. Iran wants a phased settlement: first a 60-day ceasefire extension, reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and lifting of the US naval blockade; only then would nuclear talks begin. Washington insists Iran's entire enriched-uranium stockpile must leave the country and enrichment must cease permanently. Israel and Republican hawks including Lindsey Graham fiercely oppose the emerging terms, warning that leaving Iran with missiles and regional proxies would shift the balance of power.
Serve Robotics deployed 500 more bots across 40 LA neighborhoods this month, joining Coco Robotics' roughly 300 units, and the expansion is polarizing pedestrians. Restaurant staff complain the machines block sidewalks, hit people, and create hazards for wheelchair users; one chef said his friends 'both pity them and hate them.' Incidents include a viral rain-storm struggle, a collision with a Waymo, and a New Jersey cyclist allegedly injured by an Avride robot. Researchers at Cornell have proposed a 'robotability score' to guide where machines should be allowed to operate.
Pfc John A Walko, killed during the 1944 Battle of Aachen in Germany, was escorted home to Commodore, Pennsylvania after the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency used DNA analysis to identify remains held as 'X-99 Henri-Chapelle' since 1944. His 96-year-old sister Sally Gaydosh had waited nearly eight decades, sometimes wondering whether he might simply show up; she initially dismissed a 2021 DNA-request letter as a scam. Walko was interred alongside his parents and brother as local firefighters displayed a sprawling American flag from a firetruck.
A damaged chemical tank at a Garden Grove aerospace site cracked over the weekend in what authorities hope will relieve pressure and reduce the risk of a catastrophic explosion; some 50,000 residents had been evacuated.
Millions of pilgrims began arriving in Mina near Mecca on Monday for the Hajj. Saudi Arabia has modernized the site with permanent steel-frame tents, fire-resistant materials, air conditioning, and an expanded marble floor around the Kaaba engineered to stay cool even as temperatures reached 51°C (124°F) last year. Iranians are attending despite the ongoing war, reaffirming Riyadh's policy of not politicizing Islam's holiest sites.
As health officials monitor Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks, conspiracy theories are proliferating across the US, reflecting deep political divisions and eroding public trust in public-health institutions.
The six-week Iran war has shocked Gulf states into overriding Israeli opposition and backing a provisional peace deal. Kings College London's Andreas Krieg said 'we're probably seeing the final days of American empire in the Middle East' after Washington prioritized protecting Israel over its Gulf allies despite trillions in regional investment. Eight Muslim-majority nations — including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Turkey and Pakistan — urged Trump to accept the deal on Saturday. The UAE, which reportedly carried out its own airstrikes against Iran earlier in the war, has now swung firmly behind diplomacy.
A heat dome trapping air from Morocco has sent temperatures soaring across France, Spain and the UK, with meteorologists warning such events will arrive 'more and more often, more and more intense, and earlier and earlier.' The UK Met Office recorded 33.5°C at Heathrow, breaking the all-time May record, with highs up to 35°C expected. More than 20 French towns hit their highest-ever May temperatures, with Brive-la-Gaillarde reaching 35.3°C. A runner died and 10 others were hospitalized during a Paris-area race on Sunday. Spain expects 40°C in some valleys by week's end.
International donors pledged $500 million to combat a worsening Ebola outbreak in Congo, where the WHO chief says suspected deaths have reached 220 and the epidemic is 'outpacing us.'
Former National Cyber Security Centre CEO Ciaran Martin said Nigel Farage's claim that a Russian 'hack-and-leak' exposed his £5m crypto donation is 'without any merit' and 'entirely unsubstantiated.' Martin called it an unprecedentedly serious allegation that, if true, would require emergency COBR sessions and diplomatic retaliation against Russia, but noted Farage has provided no evidence and has not contacted GCHQ. A Guardian spokesperson called the claim 'an attempt to deflect attention from legitimate scrutiny of his financial affairs.'
Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas,' dedicating 42,300 words to warning that artificial intelligence risks 'new forms of dehumanization' when controlled by a powerful few and calling for the 'disarming' of opaque algorithms.
Trump declared it should be 'mandatory' for Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Pakistan to sign the Abraham accords recognizing Israel as part of any US-Iran peace deal, a demand reportedly met with silence during Saturday's call with regional leaders.
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical frames AI as a moral crisis demanding that opaque algorithms serve humanity rather than concentrate power in a few firms.
DeepSeek released Reasonix, a native coding-agent architecture that leans on aggressive caching to slash inference costs while maintaining performance.
A developer's essay on abandoning the Android ecosystem after years of investment, arguing the platform's incentives no longer align with craft or user respect.
Wired reports that an experiment has overturned a century-old assumption about how wings generate lift, with implications for next-generation aircraft design.
A breakdown of the upcoming 2026 HIPAA Security Rule changes tightening encryption, access controls, and breach notification for healthcare IT.
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From the Watchlist
Anthropic@AnthropicAI
Last month we launched Project Glasswing, our collaborative AI cybersecurity initiative. Since then, we and our partners have found more than ten thousand high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in essential software.
Today we're open-sourcing Bumblebee, a read-only scanner for macOS and Linux. It checks developer machines for risky packages, extensions, and AI tool configs. Connected to Computer, it can trigger deeper scans whenever a new supply-chain risk emerges.
think back to projects you've worked on in the past
it's hard not to imagine they'd have been completed way faster now that we have ai
but everything still feels as slow and as difficult as ever
Over the past few months, we've been holding dialogues with scholars, philosophers, clergy, and ethicists on the questions AI raises—starting with how good character forms.
We've productionized query-aware compression for faster, cleaner, more-accurate search. Better context is better than more context. Our system cuts context tokens up to 70% while improving answer quality.
every company that works has set up a funnel
this funnel is delicate and intricate with many critical pieces working exactly right. it's not an obvious and if it were it would have no value
which is why it's very easy for employees to break this funnel
Bumblebee started as an internal tool. Making Perplexity products more secure for users starts with protecting the developer systems we use to build them.
Given how much of the original 'bottle of water per generated email' water estimate came from guesses at the architecture of GPT-4, it would be very much in @OpenAI's interest to publish the architecture of that now-retired, three year old model
Fun new feature in Datasette 1.0a30 - a 'jump to' menu, also available by the '/' keyboard shortcut, which lets you type to jump to a database, table or canned query.