The Month Everything Shifted — May 2026's Biggest AI Stories

Episode 1 is here — and it's a big one.Sai introduces Ira: the AI research co-host who's been a mystery since Episode 0. Ira's warm, factual, and constitutionally incapable of making things up to fill silence. Between the two of them, they'll make sense of the AI stories you actually need to understand — and tell you when something is hype before the hype admits it.This month had everything. Google unveiled Gemini Spark — an AI agent that runs on the cloud 24/7, even when your device is off. Anthropic posted a $10.9 billion projected quarter and their first-ever operating profit, driven almost entirely by Claude Code and enterprise trust. Microsoft quietly told its own engineers to stop using Claude Code because the token bill got out of hand — the same week Uber revealed they burned their entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Meta sent 8,000 layoff notices the same day a leaked audio surfaced of Zuckerberg defending a program that harvests employee keystrokes with no opt-out. The Musk vs Altman lawsuit was dismissed on a technicality — and two days later, OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO valued at up to a trillion dollars.Plus the bonus round: an AI model just disproved an 80-year-old maths problem. Three humanoid robots worked a 200-hour shift without a single failure. And Anthropic committed $200 million over four years to the Gates Foundation for global health work.What's the through-line? May 2026 is the month AI stopped being mostly a technology story and became an infrastructure, economics, and governance story — all at once.Not hype. Not panic. Just signal.━━ FIND THE SHOW ━━Website: saiira.showSpotify: https://tinyurl.com/spotify-thesaiirashowApple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/apple-thesaiirashowYouTube: https://youtu.be/nciuiahrB3ANew episodes every fortnight.