Cursor's 3.3 release adds durable canvases for multi-step plans and Bugbot, an in-editor agent that triages and fixes bugs on its own — the clearest sign yet that the editor is becoming a manager of agents rather than a place to type. The shift is industry-wide: Claude Code doubled its five-hour limits, Copilot is rebuilding its billing around agentic credits, and the protocols underneath are consolidating under a new foundation. The race is no longer about who suggests the next line, but who can be trusted to finish the task.
Five-hour caps doubled across Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise on May 6, with peak-hour throttling dropped after a new compute deal. Opus 4.7 runs by default.
The "Slow Horses" and "Power of the Dog" banner has lined up as much as $50 million in equity over three years from Paris-based Entourage Ventures, funding a slate of features and loosening its dependence on the traditional pre-sales model. The deal is part of a broader rewiring of how films get paid for: as commercial banks retreat, structured equity and private credit — from HarbourView to FilmHedge — are stepping in to underwrite the mid-budget slate, giving producers more control over how a picture is financed.
The "Under the Silver Lake" producer launches an AI-powered platform at Cannes to develop, produce and finance films — first up, Mamet's "Speed the Plow."
JR wrapped Paris's oldest bridge in an 18-metre-high, 120-metre-long inflatable cave — 80 air-filled arches, 800 builders, hand-stitched in Brittany — turning a daily commute into a walk-through cavern. Pure what-if at civic scale: take a landmark everyone walks past and make the whole city stop. The expedition is the build itself, from the Seine barge to the overnight unfurling.
Franco-Swiss artist Saype brings his biodegradable grass-painting series "Beyond Walls" to Minneapolis in June — a vast fresco of clasped hands, read from the sky, built to vanish in weeks.
On New York's High Line, Tuan Andrew Nguyen raised a 27-foot sandstone Buddha modeled on the Bamiyan statues the Taliban destroyed — its hands recast from melted-down artillery shells.
The 61st Venice Biennale opened May 9 with "In Minor Keys" — pavilions turning sacred spaces, greenhouses and sewage plants into the artwork itself, across the Giardini and Arsenale.
Desert X AlUla 2026 set eleven site-responsive earthworks among AlUla's sandstone mountains and oasis valley — land art staged against towering desert and ancient heritage.
Over Hollywood on May 19, 1,600 drones formed Castle Grayskull and He-Man to set a Guinness record for the brightest aerial image — 222,448 lux of choreographed light.
The Dorothy Project sent a silk-wrapped figure 30km up on a weather balloon, a 360 camera riding alongside, until the balloon burst at the edge of space.
Sky Elements claimed its 17th Guinness title with a 4,979-drone Vecna over Las Vegas — the largest aerial display of a fictional character built by drones.
On May 21, river guide Kelsey Pfendler rowed out of Monterey on a solo, unsupported crossing to Hawaii — aiming to be the first American woman to do it.
On May 17, freestyle rider Colby Raha launched over the Caesars Palace fountains on the Vegas Strip, chasing his own record for the world's highest motorcycle jump.
Reported May 23, the skydiver known as Super Toom landed a parachute at extreme altitude atop one of the world's highest volcanoes — beating a mark that had stood since 2023.
Violinist-turned-earth-scientist Leif Karlstrom converts seismic data from volcanoes and glaciers into music — the planet's deep machinery, scored for an audience.
The 2026 deep-ocean season sends research vessels into never-seen Pacific seafloor habitats — with art residencies embedding creators alongside the scientists.