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The latest developments, breakthroughs, and analysis from the world of artificial intelligence.
Recursive Superintelligence Exits Stealth With $650M Raise
Richard Socher and Yuandong Tian's new lab raised $650M at a $4.65B valuation to chase recursive self-improvement — backed by GV, Nvidia, and AMD.
Runway's Bid to Beat Google: From AI Video to World Models
Valued at $5.3B with $40M new ARR in Q2, Runway is pivoting from filmmaker tools to world models — on a collision course with Google DeepMind.
Sakana's Fugu: a 7B Model That Conducts GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini
Sakana AI's new Fugu platform uses a 7B reinforcement-learned 'conductor' to route work across frontier models — and beats them on coding benchmarks.
Thinking Machines Unveils Interaction Models for Real-Time AI
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines debuts TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B model running 200ms micro-turns — beating GPT-Realtime and Gemini Live on latency.
Google Gemini Intelligence Turns Android Into an AI Agent: What's New
Google's Gemini Intelligence update transforms Android into a proactive AI agent that books classes, fills forms, and builds shopping carts across all your apps.
NIST Now Tests AI Models Before Launch: Google, Microsoft, xAI Sign On
Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI joined OpenAI and Anthropic in letting NIST's CAISI evaluate their AI models for safety and security risks before public release.
OpenAI Brings Codex to ChatGPT Mobile: Code From Your Phone
OpenAI's Codex coding agent now runs inside the ChatGPT mobile app on iOS and Android, letting developers steer remote coding work from anywhere.
xAI Launches Grok Build: A Terminal Coding Agent for Power Users
xAI released Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding and automation, exclusive to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers and powered by Grok 4.3 with a 2M token context.
Google Turns Android Into an AI Agent with Gemini Intelligence
Google's Gemini Intelligence transforms Android into a cross-app AI layer — completing tasks, filling forms, and vibe-coding widgets across your entire phone.
US and China to Launch Formal AI Safety Talks After Trump-Xi Summit
Treasury Secretary Bessent confirmed the two AI superpowers will begin formal AI safety protocol talks following the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing on May 14, 2026.
Google and SpaceX Plan to Build AI Data Centers in Orbit
Google is in talks with SpaceX to launch orbital data centers, part of Project Suncatcher—a moonshot that could reshape where AI compute lives within a decade.
Trump Calls Jensen Huang Personally to Join China Summit
Nvidia's CEO flew to Alaska to board Air Force One after Trump personally called him — reversing reports of his exclusion amid AI chip export tensions.
Microsoft's AI Found 16 Windows Flaws Humans Missed
Microsoft's MDASH system — 100+ AI agents working in concert — discovered 16 Windows vulnerabilities in May Patch Tuesday, including four critical RCEs.
Nebius Posts 684% Revenue Growth, Locks 1.2GW Pennsylvania AI Factory
Nvidia-backed Nebius reported $399M in Q1 revenue—up 684% year-over-year—and secured a 1.2 gigawatt AI factory site in Pennsylvania, targeting 4GW total capacity by 2030.
Robinhood Opens AI Startup Investing to Everyday Investors
Robinhood filed for RVII, a second retail venture fund focused on early-stage AI startups — giving everyday investors pre-IPO access that was once VC-only.
SAP's Autonomous Enterprise: Claude Becomes Its AI Brain
SAP unveiled 200+ embedded AI agents and named Anthropic's Claude its primary reasoning engine at Sapphire 2026—the biggest AI launch in SAP's 53-year history.
Google's TurboQuant Cuts LLM Memory 6x — With No Accuracy Loss
Google Research's TurboQuant compresses the KV cache of large language models by 6x at 3 bits per coordinate, achieving faster inference on H100s with zero accuracy trade-off.
Isomorphic Labs Raises $2.1B to Scale AI Drug Discovery Engine
Alphabet's DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs closes a $2.1B Series B led by Thrive Capital to push its AI drug design platform toward clinical trials.
Jensen Huang Left Off Trump's China Trip: What It Signals for AI Chips
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is absent from Trump's Beijing delegation — analysts call it a deliberate signal that AI chip export restrictions won't soften.
76% of Companies Now Have a Chief AI Officer, IBM Study Finds
A new IBM study of 2,000 global CEOs reveals that Chief AI Officer adoption tripled in one year, reshaping how organizations govern AI at the executive level.
Monday.com Launches AI Work Platform With Native Agents
Monday.com posts record Q1 revenue of $351M and launches an AI Work Platform with native agents — signaling that AI is now central to enterprise productivity software.
OpenAI Shares How to Run Codex Agents Safely in Production
OpenAI published detailed guidance on deploying Codex coding agents safely, covering sandboxing, access controls, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints for enterprise use.
OpenAI Launches $4B Deployment Company for Enterprise AI
OpenAI's new $4B Deployment Company embeds forward-deployed engineers inside businesses to transform operations with AI — backed by TPG, McKinsey, and 19 investors.
Inside Trump's AI Turf War: Spy Agencies Want Oversight
A fierce internal battle is splitting the Trump White House over whether U.S. intelligence agencies should gain power to regulate frontier AI models.