OpenAI Acquires Weights.gg, Folds Voice-Cloning Team
OpenAI quietly bought voice-cloning startup Weights.gg, dispersed its six-person team across existing groups, and folded the tech into Voice Engine work.
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Supertonic 3: On-Device TTS Speaks 31 Languages
Supertonic 3 is an open-weights, CPU-only TTS engine from Supertone with 31 languages, expression tags, and zero-shot voice cloning.
OpenAI Hit by npm Supply Chain Attack: Update Codex Now
OpenAI confirmed two employee devices were compromised in the TanStack npm attack. ChatGPT Desktop, Codex CLI, and Atlas users must update by June 12.
ChatGPT Gains Personal Finance Tools via Plaid
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Personal Finance on May 15, 2026, letting Pro subscribers connect bank accounts via Plaid for AI-powered spending analysis across 12,000+ financial institutions.
FLUX.2-klein-9B in ComfyUI: Sub-Second Image Gen
Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2-klein-9B now integrates with ComfyUI via NKD Klein Tools v1.7.0, enabling sub-second image generation with just 4 inference steps on an RTX 4090.
RelaxAI: UK-Hosted LLM API 80% Cheaper Than OpenAI
Civo Limited’s RelaxAI offers UK-sovereign LLM inference at £0.10 per million input tokens, with ISO 27001 certification and 100% UK data residency.
holaOS 0.1: AI Workstream Manager for Creators
holaOS 0.1 ships Dashboard, Sub Agents, and Multi Workspaces for managing parallel AI workflows on macOS.
IBM Granite Embedding R2: Open Multilingual RAG Models
IBM has released Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: a pair of Apache 2.0 embedding models with 32K context, 200+ languages, and a top MTEB score under 100M parameters. A drop-in swap for paid commercial embedding APIs.
Kimi WebBridge Lets Claude Code Drive Your Browser
Moonshot AI released Kimi WebBridge on May 14, a browser extension that lets coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex drive your local Chrome or Edge through the Chrome DevTools Protocol. Logins stay local.
Image-Blaster: One Image to 3D Worlds for Claude Code
Open-source Claude Code skill turns one image into a fully meshed 3D scene with separate object meshes, Gaussian splat background, and ambient plus physics audio in under five minutes.
Anthropic Partners With Gates Foundation in $200M AI Deal
Anthropic is committing $200 million to a four-year partnership with the Gates Foundation to deploy Claude across global health, education, agriculture, and economic mobility programs.
Perplexity Computer Now Queries Snowflake and Databricks
Perplexity has connected its Computer agentic workspace to live company data in Snowflake and Databricks, turning the agent into a data analyst that can answer business questions in plain English. Released May 14, 2026 for Pro, Max, Enterprise Pro, and Enterprise Max users.
OpenAI Codex Now in ChatGPT iOS: Monitor Projects Anywhere
OpenAI Codex is now in the ChatGPT iOS app, letting creators monitor projects, review diffs, and push code changes without being at a desk.
Cerebras IPO Hits $60B Valuation, Powers OpenAI
Cerebras Systems priced its IPO at $185 per share on May 13, then opened on Nasdaq the next day at $350 and closed up 68% at $311. By May 16 the stock had settled near $280, putting the chip company at a $60B market cap.
Warp-as-History Brings Zero-Shot Camera Control to AI Video
Warp-as-History converts camera movements into pseudo-history context that frozen video models follow without retraining, new encoders, or test-time optimization. Code is public on GitHub.
Adobe Sued Over AI Voice Training Under Illinois Privacy Law
Adobe faces a class action lawsuit filed May 14, 2026, alleging the company used journalists' and podcasters' voices to train AI models without consent under Illinois BIPA law.