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Developer at a screen of code in a dark workspace, illustrating the rise of autonomous AI coding agents.
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Cognition raises US$1 billion at a US$26 billion valuation as Devin clears US$492 million in revenue

The maker of the AI software engineer Devin has raised US$1 billion, valuing the company at US$26 billion after the money. Eight months ago it was worth a tenth of that. The number under the round that matters more: Devin is now on a US$492 million annual revenue run-rate, with enterprise use growing 50 per cent a month.

1 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
OpenAI and Singapore government representatives sign the OpenAI for Singapore MOU at ATxSummit on 20 May 2026
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OpenAI Announces First Applied AI Lab Outside the US in Singapore, Backed by S$300 Million Commitment

OpenAI signed a memorandum of understanding with Singapore's MDDI on 20 May 2026, committing more than S$300 million and announcing the city-state as the location of its first Applied AI Lab outside the United States — with over 200 technical roles planned over the next few years.

1 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
NVIDIA Singapore AI research lab and Punggol Digital District robotics testbed announcement May 2026
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NVIDIA Opens Singapore AI Research Lab as City-State Launches Singapore's First Multi-Operator Robotics Testbed, Planned for Later in 2026

Singapore announced two linked moves on 20 May: NVIDIA confirmed its first research lab in the city-state, and the government revealed Punggol Digital District will become Singapore's first multi-operator robotics testbed — with eight named industry partners and trials planned for later in 2026.

1 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
Alibaba Qwen 3.7 Max AI model launch at Alibaba Cloud Summit May 2026
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Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max Debuts as Top-Ranked Chinese AI Model, Built to Run Autonomously for Dozens of Hours

Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max placed fifth globally on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at launch — the highest-ranked Chinese model — after a 35-hour, 1,158-tool-call autonomous demonstration at the Alibaba Cloud Summit. The model signals a shift from chat-leaderboard competition toward long-horizon agentic enterprise contracts.

1 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B parameter model announced at Computex 2026 Taipei Jensen Huang keynote
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NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Ultra at Computex 2026 — 550B-Parameter Open-Weights Model Targets Enterprise Agentic AI

NVIDIA unveiled Nemotron 3 Ultra at Computex 2026 in Taipei — a 550B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 55B active parameters, scoring 48 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index and claiming 300-plus tokens per second. It leads US open-weights models but trails China's Kimi K2.6 at 54.

1 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
Amazon Bedrock console showing OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 and Codex model cards listed as generally available
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GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex Reach General Availability on Amazon Bedrock

AWS customers can now run GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex inside Amazon Bedrock at OpenAI's standard per-token rates. The GA launch is the public face of a US$38 billion, seven-year infrastructure contract signed in November 2025 — separate from Amazon's $50 billion equity investment announced in February 2026 — and arrives after OpenAI's Azure exclusivity formally ended in April 2026.

1 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
HUMAIN ONE enterprise AI agent operating system dashboard on AWS cloud infrastructure
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HUMAIN ONE: Saudi Arabia's PIF-Backed AI Firm Ships an Enterprise Operating System for Autonomous Agents, Built on AWS

Saudi Arabia's PIF-owned HUMAIN launched HUMAIN ONE on 4 May 2026 — a five-module platform billed as the industry's first enterprise-grade operating system for building, deploying, and governing autonomous AI agents at scale, distributed globally via AWS Marketplace across 39 regions.

1 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
Rows of servers in a data centre, illustrating the AI inference infrastructure Baseten provides.
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Baseten is in talks to raise US$1 billion at an US$11 billion valuation as inference money keeps flowing

Baseten, which rents Nvidia servers to companies running AI models, is in talks to raise US$1 billion at an US$11 billion valuation. That would more than double a price it set only three months ago. The pull is its revenue, which the company says has tripled in a quarter.

1 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
Abstract 3D neural-network rendering in blue and pink — an illustrative image for this report on Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8.
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Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 Six Weeks After 4.7 — Better Coding, Same Price, and a Pitch Built on Honesty

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on 28 May 2026, about six weeks after Opus 4.7. The headline numbers are incremental coding and reasoning gains at an unchanged price — but the more interesting pitch is behavioural: a model Anthropic says is more willing to admit what it does not know.

30 May 2026 · 5 min read
OpenAI Launches Self-Serve Ads Manager Inside ChatGPT — The Search-Advertising Era Just Ended
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OpenAI Launches Self-Serve Ads Manager Inside ChatGPT — The Search-Advertising Era Just Ended

OpenAI launched a self-serve Ads Manager inside ChatGPT on 21 May 2026. Marketers can now create, manage, and optimise campaigns directly in the chat interface. What changes for search advertising.

21 May 2026 · 12 min read
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