Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Google introduced Gemini Intelligence, a sweep of agentic Android features — cross-app task automation, a Chrome auto-browse tool, a Rambler voice-to-text rewriter and natural-language Create My Widget — debuting on the Samsung Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 this summer ahead of Apple's AI reboot.
AWS is the first cloud provider to host the full Claude Platform — APIs, console, Managed Agents, Skills and all — natively inside a customer's AWS account, with consolidated billing, IAM access controls and same-day availability for new Anthropic releases across 17 regions.
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Google's Threat Intelligence Group says it has spotted the first confirmed case of cybercriminals weaponizing an AI-generated zero-day exploit, a Python script that bypassed two-factor authentication on a popular open-source admin tool — and that the campaign was disrupted before it could land.
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Dubai-based Lyrie.ai emerged from stealth with a $2 million pre-seed round and the release of Agent Trust Protocol, an open cryptographic standard for identifying, scoping and revoking autonomous AI agents that the company plans to submit to the IETF.
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OpenAI and Microsoft have agreed to cap the AI lab's revenue-sharing payments at $38 billion through 2030, according to The Information — a renegotiation that could save OpenAI tens of billions of dollars and clear a long-standing obstacle to a potential public listing later this year.
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released a research preview of TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B mixture-of-experts model that responds in under 0.4 seconds and listens while it speaks — outpacing GPT-realtime-2 and Gemini 3.1 Flash Live on the FD-bench latency test.
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Palo Alto-based Akool rebuilt its full stack for a 10-20x speedup, pushing generative video clips to 1-3 seconds and live streaming below 30ms per frame.
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A two-stage compression algorithm from Google Research cuts the KV cache 6x and accelerates attention 8x on H100s, with no fine-tuning and no measurable accuracy loss.
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The cash-and-equity partnership that was supposed to put a Perplexity-powered chatbot inside Snapchat collapsed in Q1, and Snap is now guiding 2026 with zero contribution from the deal.
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A joint team used 94 qubits across two Heron r2 processors, plus Fugaku and Miyabi-G, to simulate trypsin and T4-lysozyme — a 40x jump in system size and 210x accuracy gain over results from six months ago.
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German robotics startup Sereact closed a $110M Series B led by Headline to scale its vision-language-action models — already running in BMW, Daimler Truck, and Mercedes plants — and to push into the US warehouse market.
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Anthropic's restricted Project Glasswing gives 12 launch partners early access to Claude Mythos Preview — a frontier model that already uncovered a 27-year-old OpenBSD bug and thousands of zero-days across every major OS and browser.
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CEO Arvind Krishna unveiled an agentic control plane, made Sovereign Core generally available and folded the Confluent acquisition into watsonx.data as IBM argued enterprises now need an entirely new model for running AI.
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A new grok-imagine-image-quality endpoint targets product visualization, brand-safe ad creative and consistent character workflows, with image outputs designed to feed directly into Grok video generation.
xAI
Read more →Mizuho analyst Jordan Klein flagged a sharp rotation this week as AMD and Intel jumped roughly 25 percent, Micron leapt 37 percent and Corning added 18 percent, while Nvidia trailed the broader Nasdaq for the year.
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The Center for AI Standards and Innovation will get pre-release access to frontier models from Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI — including versions with safeguards stripped — to evaluate cyber, bio, and chemical risk.
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Nvidia has now committed more than $40 billion to AI equity deals this year, including $30B in OpenAI, $3.2B in Corning for optical interconnect plants, and $2.1B in data-center operator IREN.
CNBC
Read more →OpenAI rolled out three new voice models on May 7 — a reasoning agent with a 128K context window, a 70-language live translator at $0.034 a minute, and a streaming Whisper that transcribes as you speak.
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At its second annual developer conference, Anthropic unveiled a stack of agentic features — overnight self-improving 'dreaming' agents, scheduled Routines, multi-agent orchestration, automated Code Review and CI auto-fix — alongside doubled Claude Code rate limits.
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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is now generally available on Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise, pitched as the cheapest, fastest member of the Gemini 3 family for high-volume agentic, classification, and tool-use workloads.
Google Cloud Blog
Read more →A bespoke build of GPT-5.5 with relaxed restrictions on offensive-security tasks is rolling out in limited preview to thousands of verified cybersecurity professionals, OpenAI's answer to Anthropic's Mythos cyber preview from a month earlier.
Help Net Security
Read more →Anthropic's annualized revenue tripled to $30 billion in the first four months of 2026, eclipsing OpenAI's disclosed $24 billion run rate as enterprise demand for Claude Mythos and the new managed agents pulled forward years of forecast growth.
Sherwood News
Read more →A privacy researcher revealed that Chrome has been quietly downloading a 4GB Gemini Nano model to billions of devices without explicit consent, reigniting debate over default-on AI features at browser scale.
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Google shut down Project Mariner on May 4 without a public announcement, ending its 17-month run as a standalone browser-controlling AI and folding the technology into the Gemini API and the new Gemini Agent.
Android Authority
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