AI News from May 23, 2026

Berlin startup Peec AI crossed $10M in annualized revenue as brands track and optimize visibility in AI search results.

South Korea’s deputy PM warned AI wealth must benefit the public amid concerns over inequality, job losses, and Samsung labor tensions.

CNBC live market coverage reports Lenovo shares climbed after AI-related revenue jumped in the fourth quarter.

TechCrunch reports some AI startups stretch ARR metrics while investors may overlook public overstatements.

VentureBeat covers direct corpus interaction, a method that lets AI agents search raw corpora with command-line tools.

The Verge reports Google AI Overviews can respond like chatbots to search terms such as disregard or skip.

TechCrunch reports AI reconstructed cockpit audio from spectrogram data, prompting the NTSB to review public investigation files.