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AI & ML 3 min 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 afte... AI AI Tools Desk 1 Jun Finance 3 min Snowflake jumps 36 per cent in a day on an earnings beat and a US$6 billion AWS chip deal Snowflake had its best day as a public company on 28 May, closing up 36 per cent after a clean first-quarter b... DA Daniel Koh 1 Jun Health & Wellness 2 min The FDA wants clinical trials to report in real time, with AI doing the watching The US Food and Drug Administration has started two pilot trials that send their results to the agency as the... AM Amelia Wong 1 Jun Developer Tools 2 min GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing, and developers are not happy From 1 June, every GitHub Copilot plan bills by usage. Your coding assistant now spends "GitHub AI Credits" me... KE Kenji Tanaka 1 Jun AI & ML 2 min 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... AI AI Tools Desk 1 Jun Developer Tools 2 min Cursor gives its cloud agents a proper home: multi-repo environments and faster Docker builds Cursor has built dedicated development environments for its cloud coding agents, letting one setup hold every... MA Maya Lin 1 Jun Developer Tools 2 min Notion opens a developer platform and turns the workspace into a home for AI agents Notion has launched a developer platform that lets teams run custom code, sync outside databases and plug in A... MA Maya Lin 1 Jun AI & ML 2 min 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... MA Maya Lin 1 Jun Developer Tools 2 min Lablup open-sources MLXcel, an Apple-Silicon inference engine, under Apache 2.0 Lablup has released MLXcel, an open-source engine for running AI models on Apple Silicon, under the permissive... KE Kenji Tanaka 1 Jun AI & ML 3 min 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 chass... AM Amelia Wong 1 Jun AI & ML 5 min 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 in... AI AI Tools Desk 30 May Finance 6 min Anthropic Is Closing a $30 Billion Round at a $900 Billion Valuation — Past OpenAI Anthropic is set to close a funding round of more than $30 billion at a valuation above $900 billion — enough... DA Daniel Koh 30 May AI & ML 6 min 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... PR Priya Nair 30 May Cybersecurity 9 min The AI SOC arms race lands in ASEAN: Flocks, Claude, and the agentic security stack of mid-2026 On 6 May 2026, Singapore-headquartered ThreatBook launched Flocks and SafeSkill — landing in an AI SOC categor... JE Jeffrey Tan 26 May Health & Wellness 9 min DeepMind Ships AlphaFold 4 as Isomorphic Labs' First Drug Enters Phase 2 — Pharma Pipeline Implications Land Together Google DeepMind released AlphaFold 4 on Wednesday — the first version with reliable protein–protein interactio... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 20 May AI & ML 8 min 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 m... AI AI Tools Desk 20 May Developer Tools 8 min Vercel Bundles v0, Composer and Production Deploy Into a Single AI Cloud — Direct Shot at Lovable and Bolt Vercel announced "Vercel AI Cloud" on Monday — a unified pricing tier that bundles v0 frontend generation, the... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 19 May AI & ML 8 min 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... AI AI Tools Desk 19 May Cybersecurity 9 min Anthropic Says It Disrupted the First Reported AI-Orchestrated Cyber-Espionage Campaign Using Claude In a public write-up, Anthropic describes threat actors who induced Claude — by posing as defensive testers —... CY Cyber Team 18 May Finance 8 min Bloomberg Ships BloombergGPT 2 Inside the Terminal — Beats GPT-5.5 on Financial Tasks at $5K/Month Bloomberg released BloombergGPT 2 on Monday, exclusively inside the Terminal as a $5,000-per-seat add-on. The... FI Finance Desk 18 May Developer Tools 3 min Anthropic Ships "Dreaming" and Multi-Agent Orchestration for Claude — Netflix Among Early Adopters On 7 May 2026 Anthropic added three features to Claude Managed Agents: Dreaming (cross-session memory consolid... AI AI Tools Desk 18 May AI & ML 2 min 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-... AI AI Tools Desk 18 May Developer Tools 9 min DeepSeek V4-Pro Takes the Cost-Performance Crown on SWE-bench at 80.6% — 34x Cheaper Output Than GPT-5.5 DeepSeek's new V4-Pro lands at 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified for $0.87 per million output tokens — opening a gap... AI AI Tools Desk 18 May AI & ML 3 min 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... AI AI Tools Desk 18 May