AI & ML

SubQ Ships First Commercial Subquadratic LLM with a Native 12M-Token Context

A new startup called Subquadratic launched SubQ 1M-Preview on 5 May 2026 with $29 million in seed funding and a claim that should bother every transformer lab: their model is not a transformer.

18 May 2026 · 3 min read

AI & ML

OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the Default Across ChatGPT — Speed, Not Scores

On 5 May 2026 OpenAI swapped GPT-5.5 Instant in as the default model for ChatGPT free and paid tiers, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant. The pitch is not benchmark gains — it is faster responses and fewer hallucinations in law, medicine and finance.

18 May 2026 · 3 min read

AI & ML

Meta's V-JEPA 2 Lands as Yann LeCun's Bet Against LLM-Only AGI Gets Its Strongest Demo Yet

Meta released V-JEPA 2, a self-supervised video world model that Yann LeCun says shows the predictive understanding LLMs lack. Open-weights under a permissive licence, with physical-reasoning scores that exceed Sora 2 on standardised tests.

18 May 2026 · 8 min read

AI & ML

Google Readies New Gemini Model for I/O 2026 — Positioned to Match GPT-5.5 as Android AI Backbone

A fresh Gemini model is expected to be unveiled at I/O on 20 May, roughly tier-matching OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and arriving as Google races to embed Gemini across Android before Apple's AI reboot.

18 May 2026 · 8 min read

AI & ML

GPT-5.5 Instant Is OpenAI's New Default — Memory Now Spans Past Chats, Files and Gmail

OpenAI swapped ChatGPT's default to GPT-5.5 Instant on 5 May. The headline change is memory — the model can now search prior conversations, uploaded files and connected Gmail to personalise answers.

17 May 2026 · 8 min read

AI & ML

Anthropic Hits $44B ARR With 80x Q1 Growth as $30B Funding Round Closes at $900B Valuation

Anthropic disclosed first-quarter revenue grew 80x year-over-year to $44 billion ARR while a $30 billion round co-led by Sequoia, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Altimeter readies a $900-billion-plus valuation by end of May.

17 May 2026 · 8 min read

AI & ML

CAISI Lines Up Google, Microsoft, xAI for Pre-Deployment AI Testing — Then Yanks the Announcement Page

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation said the US government would now evaluate Google, Microsoft and xAI models before public release. Days later, the page disappeared without explanation.

16 May 2026 · 8 min read

AI & ML

Microsoft Credits AI With Finding Bugs in May 2026 Patch Tuesday — and the Industry Should Pay Attention

Microsoft's May 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed 118 to 138 CVEs across Windows, Office and Azure — and credited AI-assisted security research for finding several. What it means for defenders.

13 May 2026 · 12 min read

AI & ML

Llama 4 Scout and Maverick Close the Gap on Frontier Models — With a 10-Million-Token Context Window

Meta's Llama 4 Scout ships a 10-million-token context window — 10× anything in the open-source field. Maverick beats GPT-4o on multimodal benchmarks. What developers need to know.

10 May 2026 · 13 min read

AI & ML

Global AI Adoption Hits 17.8%: Asia Leads the Charge But Digital Divide Is Widening, Microsoft Report Finds

Microsoft's State of Global AI Diffusion report shows 17.8% of the working-age population now uses AI globally, led by the UAE at 70.1%, with South Korea, Thailand, and Japan driving Asian momentum — but the North-South gap is widening.

8 May 2026 · 8 min read