Moonshot AI Secures $2B at $20B Valuation
May 07, 2026: Moonshot AI Secures $2B at $20B Valuation - Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI has raised $2 billion in funding at a valuation exceeding $20 billion, in a round led by Meituan's venture capital arm. The investment follows the recent release of Kimi-K2.6, an open-source large language model with approximately 1 trillion parameters. Moonshot AI also d...
OpenAI Adds Real-Time Voice, Translation to API
May 07, 2026: OpenAI Adds Real-Time Voice, Translation to API - OpenAI has launched several new voice intelligence features in its API, including GPT-Realtime-2, a voice model powered by GPT-5-class reasoning for handling complex user requests. The update also introduces GPT-Realtime-Translate, supporting over 70 input and 13 output languages, and GPT-Realtime-W...
Google, Microsoft, xAI Submit AI Models for Government Safety Checks
May 06, 2026: Google, Microsoft, xAI Submit AI Models for Government Safety Checks - Google, Microsoft, and xAI have agreed to share unreleased AI models with the U.S. Department of Commerce's Center for AI Standards and Innovation for pre-release safety testing. The evaluations will focus on cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical weapons threats to national security. The move si...
ElevenLabs Hits $500M Revenue, Lands Celebrity Investors
May 06, 2026: ElevenLabs Hits $500M Revenue, Lands Celebrity Investors - ElevenLabs has extended its Series D funding round, attracting Nvidia's NVentures, BlackRock, Wellington Management, and over 30 entertainment figures including Jamie Foxx and Eva Longoria. The AI audio startup, valued at $11 billion after its initial $500 million raise in February, also closed a $1...
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT Default
May 06, 2026: OpenAI Launches GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT Default - OpenAI has replaced ChatGPT's default model with GPT-5.5 Instant, promising fewer hallucinations, greater accuracy, and more concise responses. The update targets sensitive topics like finance, law, and healthcare, with inaccuracies on flagged conversations reduced by 37.3%. The model also cuts back...
Aircall Buys Vogent to Boost AI Voice Agents
May 06, 2026: Aircall Buys Vogent to Boost AI Voice Agents - Aircall, an AI-powered customer communications platform serving over 22,000 businesses globally, has acquired Vogent, an AI voice agent company. The deal adds specialized voice AI technology to Aircall's existing platform. The acquisition is aimed at strengthening the technology behind Aircall's AI...
Google AI Search Now Quotes Reddit, Forums
May 06, 2026: Google AI Search Now Quotes Reddit, Forums - Google is updating its AI Overview search feature to include excerpts from web forums, blogs, and social media, along with creator names and community handles to help users evaluate sources. The update also highlights links from users' news subscriptions. The move raises questions about AI Overview...
Brockman Testifies: Musk Stormed Out After Losing OpenAI Control
May 06, 2026: Brockman Testifies: Musk Stormed Out After Losing OpenAI Control - Greg Brockman testified for two days in the ongoing legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI, describing a dramatic 2017 confrontation where Musk demanded full control of the company. When co-founders refused, Musk grew angry, sat in silence, then stood up and stormed around the table before grabbi...
Anthropic's $1.5B Author Settlement Is a Nightmare
May 06, 2026: Anthropic's $1.5B Author Settlement Is a Nightmare - Anthropic reached a landmark $1.5 billion settlement after admitting it downloaded millions of pirated, copyrighted books to train its AI models without authors' permission. The payout covers nearly half a million authors, with individual payouts estimated at around $3,000 per book, split with publi...
Nebius Surges 13% on Eigen Deal, Meta Contract
May 06, 2026: Nebius Surges 13% on Eigen Deal, Meta Contract - Nebius Group (NBIS) jumped 13.24% on May 4, 2026, closing around $155 despite a broad market sell-off. Three catalysts drove the move: the $643 million acquisition of Eigen AI, a Goldman Sachs price target upgrade following a Meta infrastructure contract, and 2025 annual recurring revenue exceeding ...
Collibra Launches AI Command Center to Govern Agents
May 06, 2026: Collibra Launches AI Command Center to Govern Agents - Collibra has unveiled its AI Command Center, a platform designed to help enterprises orchestrate and govern fleets of AI agents in real time. The tool addresses what the company calls a hallucination tax, the hidden costs of correcting agent errors and managing oversight gaps, noting that 91% of ent...
Apple Pays $250M Over Siri AI Delays
May 06, 2026: Apple Pays $250M Over Siri AI Delays - Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it misled consumers about its Apple Intelligence features, particularly an upgraded Siri. Plaintiffs claimed Apple's marketing created false expectations about AI capabilities that were incomplete or delayed at the time o...
Anthropic Taps SpaceX's Colossus 1 for Claude
May 06, 2026: Anthropic Taps SpaceX's Colossus 1 for Claude - Anthropic will use SpaceX's Colossus 1 supercomputer, originally built by xAI in 2024, to power its Claude chatbot. The Memphis-based system houses over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs delivering 300 megawatts of compute, serving Claude Pro and Max users while expanding API and Claude Code usage limits. The pa...
Herd Security Raises $3M for AI Training Platform
May 06, 2026: Herd Security Raises $3M for AI Training Platform - Herd Security, a security awareness training startup founded in 2025, has raised $3 million to expand its AI-powered platform. The funding will support new training categories in HR and AI, improved video generation, and a broader partnership ecosystem. The platform uses agentic AI to generate cont...
IBM CEO: Openness, Software Growth Key to AI Win
May 06, 2026: IBM CEO: Openness, Software Growth Key to AI Win - At IBM Think 2026, CEO Arvind Krishna outlined IBM's AI strategy in an analyst AMA session, emphasizing openness, ecosystem integration, and a deliberate shift away from proprietary positioning. He identified software growth as the key metric for AI success and cited IBM's generative AI book of busi...
Hugging Face Launches First-Ever Robot App Store
May 06, 2026: Hugging Face Launches First-Ever Robot App Store - Hugging Face has launched an app store for its Reachy Mini robot, featuring over 200 community-built applications available for free download. The $299 open-source robot has sold around 10,000 units since debuting in July 2025. Unlike smartphone app stores, creators currently have no monetization o...
Apple Pays $250M to Settle Siri AI Lawsuit
May 06, 2026: Apple Pays $250M to Settle Siri AI Lawsuit - Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a false advertising class-action lawsuit over its overhyped Apple Intelligence Siri features. US customers who bought an iPhone 15 or 16 between June 10, 2024 and March 29, 2025 could receive up to $95 per device. The lawsuit alleged Apple deceived con...
Adobe Acrobat Gets AI Productivity Agent for PDFs
May 06, 2026: Adobe Acrobat Gets AI Productivity Agent for PDFs - Adobe has launched a productivity agent embedded in Acrobat that uses AI to transform static PDF content into tailored presentations, podcasts, social posts and more. The tool is available through two new tiers: Acrobat Express and Studio, which includes full AI PDF creation capabilities. The agent...
Google Kills Project Mariner Web Agent
May 06, 2026: Google Kills Project Mariner Web Agent - Google has shut down Project Mariner, its experimental web-browsing AI agent designed to perform tasks across the internet on behalf of users. The project was officially closed on May 4th, 2026, as first reported by Wired. The Project Mariner landing page now displays a farewell message indicating ...
Simulations Plus, Nvidia Team Up for AI Drugs
May 06, 2026: Simulations Plus, Nvidia Team Up for AI Drugs - Simulations Plus has announced a partnership with Nvidia to advance AI-driven drug development. The collaboration aims to leverage Nvidia's computing capabilities alongside Simulations Plus's modeling expertise to accelerate pharmaceutical research and development.
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