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EU AI Act Omnibus: Annex III High-Risk Deadline Extends 16 Months, Annex I Gets 12, Nudifier Apps Banned from December 2026
A provisional political agreement reached on 7 May 2026 pushes Annex III standalone high-risk AI compliance to December...
Illinois Passes First US Law Requiring Independent Audits of Frontier AI — a Narrower Claim Than It Sounds
Senate Bill 315 cleared the Illinois House 110-0 on 27 May 2026, making Illinois the first US state to require annual in...
Colorado Scraps Its 2024 AI Act for a Lighter Disclosure Law — What the Retreat Signals for US AI Governance
Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB 26-189 on 14 May 2026, replacing the state's 2024 AI Act with a narrower disclos...
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 billio...
Viktor raises US$75 million to put an AI "coworker" inside Slack and Teams
A Warsaw-built startup called Viktor has raised US$75 million from Accel to grow an AI agent that lives inside Slack and...
Waymo's newest robotaxi is Chinese-built, and it is already picking up riders
Waymo has started letting select riders into its next robotaxi, a minivan-style vehicle built on a Zeekr chassis from Ch...
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...
Pope Leo XIV's First Encyclical Tells the World to Slow Down on AI
In his first encyclical, released 25 May 2026, Pope Leo XIV devotes the founding text of his papacy largely to artificia...
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 c...
xAI Pre-Announces Grok 5 with Reasoning Scores Above GPT-5.5 — Free for X Premium Subscribers
Elon Musk's xAI confirmed Grok 5 ships in June with GPQA Diamond scores above GPT-5.5 and a deeper reasoning mode the te...
Google Bets the Gemini App on Agents With 3.5 Flash and 24/7 Spark Assistant
At Google I/O 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash shipped with 4× the speed of frontier rivals and a new agent called Spark that runs...
Mistral Large 3 Lands with Native Multimodal — Europe's Frontier Bet Now Reads Images and Listens
Mistral AI shipped Large 3 on Monday with native vision and audio inputs, locking in pricing 40% below GPT-5.5 and Claud...
Anthropic Launches Claude for Small Business — Seven Tools, Fifteen Workflows, US Only
On 13 May 2026 Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business: a packaged set of pre-built connectors and ready-to-run wor...
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 th...
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...
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...
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...
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 p...
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...
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 be...
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...
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...
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 t...
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