Recursive Superintelligence Launches With $650M Funding
May 13, 2026: Recursive Superintelligence Launches With $650M Funding - Recursive Superintelligence Inc. has launched with $650 million in funding, valuing the startup at $4.65 billion. The round was led by Alphabet's GV fund and Greycroft, with participation from Nvidia and AMD's venture arms. The company was founded by former Salesforce Chief Scientist Richard Socher....
Anthropic Targets Small Businesses With New AI Suite
May 13, 2026: Anthropic Targets Small Businesses With New AI Suite - Anthropic has launched Claude for Small Business, a new suite of AI tools aimed at smaller companies rather than large enterprises. Available through a toggle in Claude Cowork, the platform offers bookkeeping, business insights, ad campaign tools, and integrations with QuickBooks, Canva, DocuSign, H...
Meta Launches Encrypted Private AI Chat Mode
May 13, 2026: Meta Launches Encrypted Private AI Chat Mode - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced Incognito Chat, claiming it is the first major AI product with no server-side conversation logs. Messages are not saved to chat history, and the feature uses end-to-end encryption. Meta distinguishes its offering from similar incognito modes on rival AI chatbo...
Amazon Replaces Rufus With Alexa Shopping Assistant
May 13, 2026: Amazon Replaces Rufus With Alexa Shopping Assistant - Amazon has launched Alexa for Shopping, a personalized AI shopping assistant powered by Alexa+, replacing its previous generative AI tool Rufus. Available now to U.S. customers, it works via voice and touch across mobile, desktop, and Echo Show displays, offering tailored recommendations based on pu...
Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in Business Customers
May 13, 2026: Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in Business Customers - For the first time, Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI in verified business customers, according to fintech firm Ramp's AI Index. Data from over 50,000 companies shows 34.4% now pay for Anthropic services versus 32.3% for OpenAI. The shift reflects a dramatic 12-month surge for Anthropic, growing from ...
WhatsApp Launches Incognito Mode for Meta AI
May 13, 2026: WhatsApp Launches Incognito Mode for Meta AI - Meta is rolling out incognito conversations with its Meta AI chatbot on WhatsApp and the standalone Meta AI app over the next few months. These chats are processed in a secure environment, not saved, and disappear when the session ends or the app is closed. The feature uses Meta's private processin...
Meta grants rivals free WhatsApp access to appease EU
May 13, 2026: Meta grants rivals free WhatsApp access to appease EU - Meta will allow rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp's business API for one month as it works to resolve EU antitrust concerns. The move follows a series of regulatory clashes after Meta blocked third-party AI providers last October, prompting an EU investigation that found the company breachin...
Vapi Hits $500M Valuation After Winning Amazon Ring
May 12, 2026: Vapi Hits $500M Valuation After Winning Amazon Ring - AI voice startup Vapi raised a $50 million Series B at a $500 million valuation, led by Peak XV Partners with participation from Microsoft M12, Kleiner Perkins, and Bessemer Venture Partners. The funding follows a major win with Amazon Ring, which chose Vapi over 40 rivals to handle 100% of its inbo...
Eunoia Earns Elite Microsoft Azure Analytics Credential
May 12, 2026: Eunoia Earns Elite Microsoft Azure Analytics Credential - Data and AI firm Eunoia has secured the Analytics on Microsoft Azure Specialisation, one of Microsoft's most demanding technical credentials. The Malta-headquartered company, which operates locally from Limassol with over 30 specialists, passed a rigorous independent third-party audit validating its...
Altman: Musk Wanted OpenAI Passed to His Children
May 12, 2026: Altman: Musk Wanted OpenAI Passed to His Children - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified against Elon Musk's lawsuit challenging the company's shift to a for-profit structure. Altman dismissed Musk's claim that founders stole a charity, saying OpenAI created one of the world's largest charitable foundations. He revealed a striking moment when Musk suggest...
Altman: Musk's Mind Games Damaged OpenAI Culture
May 12, 2026: Altman: Musk's Mind Games Damaged OpenAI Culture - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified that Elon Musk did huge damage to the AI company's culture. During proceedings related to Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman revealed Musk demanded researchers be ranked by accomplishments and aggressively cut. Altman made these admissions while conceding points d...
AI Startup Claims Record $250K Bug Bounty
May 12, 2026: AI Startup Claims Record $250K Bug Bounty - Grego AI launched today with a multi-agent system called Deep Invariant Analysis, designed to find critical software vulnerabilities that human auditors and automated tools miss. The system traces logic across multiple layers of code dependencies, deploys sandbox agents to explore different paths, a...
Google Launches Gemini Intelligence, Googlebook Laptops
May 12, 2026: Google Launches Gemini Intelligence, Googlebook Laptops - Google unveiled Gemini Intelligence, a suite of AI-powered Android features capable of executing multi-step tasks via natural language commands. Capabilities include automated trip booking, Chrome research assistance, an upgraded autofill connected to Google services, a transcript-cleaning keyboard ...
Signadot Lets AI Coding Agents Self-Validate Kubernetes Changes
May 12, 2026: Signadot Lets AI Coding Agents Self-Validate Kubernetes Changes - Microservices testing company Signadot has launched /signadot-validate, a skill enabling coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor to test their own changes against production-like Kubernetes environments before returning code to developers. The tool aims to close the agent loop in cloud-nati...
Google Adds Agentic AI, Widget Coding to Android
May 12, 2026: Google Adds Agentic AI, Widget Coding to Android - Google unveiled a suite of Gemini-powered AI features at its Android Show: I/O Edition event. These include agentic capabilities to complete multistep tasks across apps, auto-browsing the web, filling out forms using personal data, and a Gboard dictation tool called Rambler that transcribes and clea...
Meta AI on Threads Cannot Be Blocked
May 12, 2026: Meta AI on Threads Cannot Be Blocked - Meta is testing a Threads feature allowing users to tag a Meta AI account for answers and conversation context, similar to how users tag xAI's Grok on X. However, users quickly discovered the Meta AI account cannot be blocked, sparking backlash. The inability to opt out of the AI presence on the pl...
7 Key Lessons From First Wave of Agentic AI
May 12, 2026: 7 Key Lessons From First Wave of Agentic AI - Enterprise AI deployments are stalling not from lack of technology but from missing business context, proprietary data, and strategic grounding. Experts at theCUBE and NYSE Wired's AI Agent Conference identified seven critical lessons, including that data is the true competitive moat, agents need fi...
Cowboy Space Raises $275M for Orbital AI Data Centers
May 12, 2026: Cowboy Space Raises $275M for Orbital AI Data Centers - Cowboy Space Corp. has secured $275 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation, led by Index Ventures with participation from NEA, IVP, and others. The raise brings total outside funding to $355 million. The startup was co-founded by Robinhood's Baiju Bhatt. Formerly known as Aetherflux,...
Vapi Raises $50M to Humanize Voice AI
May 12, 2026: Vapi Raises $50M to Humanize Voice AI - Voice AI startup Vapi has raised $50 million in a Series B round led by Peak XV, with participation from Y Combinator, Microsoft's M12, and Kleiner Perkins, bringing total funding to $72 million. The company builds middleware connecting AI models like GPT and Claude to voice engines, enabling natura...
OpenAI Launches Daybreak to Counter Anthropic's Mythos
May 12, 2026: OpenAI Launches Daybreak to Counter Anthropic's Mythos - OpenAI is launching Daybreak, a cybersecurity AI initiative using its Codex Security agent to identify and patch software vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. The initiative will involve industry and government partners as OpenAI deploys increasingly cyber-capable models. The launch d...
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