Anthropic ships 10 finance agent templates + governed data connectors (Moody's MCP, D&B). Claude Opus 4.7 leads Vals AI Finance benchmark at 64.37%.
EU AI Act simplification (May 7): synthetic-content labeling grace cut from 6 to 3 months. New deadline December 2, 2026. Ratification expected within weeks.
Nvidia 2026 AI equity commitments cross $40B. New: 30M IREN warrants ($2.1B) + $3.4B managed-cloud for 5 GW at Childress TX, plus $3.2B Corning option.
Picobot ships as a single 9MB Go binary, 10MB idle RAM, 29MB Alpine image. 16 built-in tools, OpenAI-compatible. Runs on $5 VPS, Pi, old Android.
Cerebras hikes IPO range to $125–$135 as orders hit ~$10B vs $3.5B on offer. Implied valuation comfortably above $26.6B; CBRS prices May 13.
Opsera ships 3 DevSecOps agents inside the Cursor IDE: arch validation, SQL/security scan, and automated SOC2/HIPAA/PCI/GDPR evidence collection.
Bret Taylor's Sierra raises $950M at $15.8B post — hits 40% of Fortune 50 and $150M ARR in 8 quarters. Tiger Global and Google's GV lead the round.
Snyk embeds Claude in its AI Security Platform and ships Evo — the first AppSec tool for prompt injection, MCP supply-chain attacks, and agent tool calls.
Anthropic ships fleet orchestration, Outcomes goal-spec, and Dreaming for Managed Agents. Dreaming lets agents self-improve across sessions without fine-tuning.
Anthropic taps SpaceX Colossus 1 in Memphis for 220K+ NVIDIA GPUs going live this month, and immediately lifts peak-hours throttling on Claude Code Pro and Max.
Four Chinese labs shipped frontier coding models in 12 days. GLM-5.1 MIT license ties Kimi K2.6 on SWE-Bench Pro at 58.4%. Cost gap is 5–25× vs Western APIs.
Anthropic ships Claude Code Routines — a (prompt, repo, connectors) config that runs on Anthropic infra, triggered by schedule, HTTP POST, or GitHub event.
2026 AI chip startup scorecard: Tenstorrent well-funded at $2.6B, SambaNova distressed at -57% valuation, Hailo in SPAC talks, Rebellions targeting KOSPI.
Cerebras Systems prices CBRS on Nasdaq May 13 at a $24.5–26.6B valuation. WSE-3 maker reported $510M revenue in 2025 and holds a $10B OpenAI deal.
Cloudflare Infire (Rust) uses disaggregated prefill/decode to beat vLLM 0.10 by 20% on H100s. Unweight achieves 15–22% lossless model weight compression.
Jules (Gemini 3 Pro) is now global public beta with a GitHub label Action and Jules Tools CLI — the first async GitHub-native coding agent rival to Claude Code.
200,000+ MCP servers allow OS command execution via unsanitized STDIO; 36.7% are SSRF-vulnerable. CoSAI published a 12-category MCP threat taxonomy.
Agent 365 GA at $15/user: per-agent Entra IDs, Defender MCP blocking. Agent Framework 1.0 is the open-source multi-agent baseline with A2A and MCP interop.
GR00T N1.7 VLA moves to commercial early access, removing research-only limits. Jensen Huang previewed GR00T N2 claiming 2× task success vs. current top VLAs.
Copilot in VS gains cloud agent sessions, profile-level custom agents, .claude/skills/ loading, and a Debugger agent that reproduces issues at runtime.