AI & ML · 18 May 2026 —
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...
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AI & ML · 18 May 2026 —
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...
AI & ML · 18 May 2026 —
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...
AI & ML · 18 May 2026 —
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...
AI & ML · 18 May 2026 —
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...
AI & ML · 17 May 2026 —
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...
AI & ML · 17 May 2026 —
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...
AI & ML · 16 May 2026 —
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...
AI & ML · 13 May 2026 —
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...
AI & ML · 10 May 2026 —
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...
AI & ML · 8 May 2026 —
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...
AI & ML · 8 May 2026 —
Anthropic Takes On Wall Street: Claude's 10 Financial AI Agents Signal the End of Manual Banking Workflows
Anthropic unveiled 10 pre-built financial AI agent templates alongside Claude Opus 4.7, scoring industry-leading 64.37%...
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