🤖 AI News Digest 📅 May 11, 2026

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1. Local AI needs to be the norm 🔗 https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/ 📊 1535 pts | 💬 593 comments | ⏰ 22h ago

2. Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message 🔗 https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-account-registration-now-requires-sending-an-sms-via-phone-instead-of-receiving-an-sms/36082 📊 214 pts | 💬 97 comments | ⏰ 8h ago

3. The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024) 🔗 https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html 📊 262 pts | 💬 142 comments | ⏰ 13h ago

4. An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs 🔗 https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2026/you-need-ai-that-reduces-your-maintenance-costs 📊 270 pts | 💬 82 comments | ⏰ 16h ago

5. Task Paralysis and AI 🔗 https://g5t.de/articles/20260510-task-paralysis-and-ai/index.html 📊 248 pts | 💬 128 comments | ⏰ 1d ago

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6. There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers. Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build them. 🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/11/there-arent-enough-rockets-for-space-data-centers-cowboy-space-raised-275-million-to-build-them/

7. The OpenAI Deployment Company 🔗 https://openai.com/index/openai-launches-the-deployment-company/

8. Out with the JavaScript, in with the HTML 🔗 https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/out-with-js-in-with-html/

9. AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says 🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/11/ai-powered-hacking-industrial-scale-threat-three-months-google

10. LLMs Improving LLMs: Agentic Discovery for Test-Time Scaling 🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08083v1

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