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Welcome to May 22, 2026

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Reporting date: 2026-05-22 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to May 22, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Qwen3.7-Max ran thirty-five hours of continuous autonomous execution — 432 kernel evaluations, 1,158 tool calls — to deliver a tenfold speedup. An LLM matched superforecaster performance on ForecastBench. The horizon over which a model can be left alone keeps stretching.

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2026-05-22: A model matches superforecaster performance

2026-05-22: Robot barbers cut hair for under a dollar

2026-05-22: A humanoid maker opens a 10,000-unit line

2026-05-22: AI memory demand kills the cheap smartphone

2026-05-22: A company cuts 22% while opening $1M bands for agent orchestrators

2026-05-22: A model runs thirty-five hours without a human

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Welcome to May 22, 2026
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-05-22
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/issues/2026-05-22
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- Welcome to May 22, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-22-2026
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