Recursive Superintelligence: $650M for Self-Improving AI
Richard Socher's stealth-mode AI lab Recursive exits with $650M at a $4.65B valuation, backed by GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, and AMD.
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Anthropic Eyes Stainless: $300M Bet on Dev Tooling
Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire Stainless, the SDK and MCP infrastructure firm whose customers include OpenAI, Google, and Runway. The reported floor is at least $300 million, against a $150M valuation in December 2024.
NVIDIA GPU Prices Are Rising: What Creators Must Know
Jensen Huang says older NVIDIA GPUs are appreciating like fine wine as supply tightens. H100, H200, and A100 rental rates are rising. Here is what AI creators need to do now.
PyTorch 2.12: What AI Creators Need to Know
PyTorch 2.12 lands with 5-26% ROCm speedups for AMD GPU creators, CUDA Graph torch.cond support, and MX quantization export. Here is what changes for Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI users.
DeepBrain Adds Seedance 2.0 to AI STUDIOS
DeepBrain integrated ByteDance Seedance 2.0 into AI STUDIOS with 1,000 voices, 150-language dubbing, and multi-minute video output in a single pass.
ElevenLabs May Update: GPT-5.4 and RAG for Voice Agents
ElevenLabs shipped a substantial May 13 update: GPT-5.4-mini and nano options in Voice Agents, document-level RAG for knowledge bases, and workspace-level API analytics.
Sony Xperia 1 VIII Adds AI Camera Assistant for Creators
Sony's first flagship phone built around an AI Camera Assistant. Xperia Intelligence reads scene, subject, and weather to suggest Alpha-derived Creative Look settings, lens choices, and bokeh effects. EUR 1,499 in Europe; June ship.
Microsoft Edge Copilot Gets Podcast Generation and Writing
Microsoft Edge May 2026 update adds AI podcast generation from browser tabs, Writing Assistant, Vision on mobile, and Copilot long-term memory.
Meta AI Adds Incognito Chat to WhatsApp and Meta AI App
Meta launched Incognito Chat for AI on May 13, bringing private conversations to WhatsApp that even Meta cannot read.
Anthropic Now Has More Business Customers Than OpenAI
For the first time, more businesses pay for Anthropic than OpenAI, according to May 2026 spending data from Ramp showing 34.4% vs 32.3% business adoption.
OpenSquilla v0.1: Cut Agent Token Costs 60% to 80%
OpenSquilla v0.1.0 launched May 12, 2026: an Apache 2.0 microkernel runtime that smart-routes agent traffic across model tiers for 60 to 80 percent token savings.
Android Show 2026: Googlebook, Vibe Widgets, Premiere App
Google's Android Show I/O Edition on May 12 unveiled three creator-relevant launches: Googlebook laptops shipping fall 2026, the Gemini Intelligence rebrand across every Android surface, and Create My Widget for vibe-coding home-screen dashboards in plain English.
Meta AI Voice Mode and @meta.ai Threads Mentions Launch
Meta rolled out Muse Spark voice conversations, @meta.ai Threads mentions, and cross-platform side chats across its consumer apps on May 12.
Mistral Python Package Backdoor: Check Your SDK Now
mistralai==2.4.6 was backdoored in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack. PyPI quarantined the project. Here is what to check and do if you build with Mistral's Python SDK.
Vidu Claw Turns a Single Brief Into a Finished Ad
ShengShu Technology launched Vidu Claw on May 12, a pipeline that converts a single marketing brief into a production-ready video ad without switching tools.
Suno Shields Warner Music Settlement from Sony, UMG
Suno is fighting to keep the terms of its Warner Music settlement sealed from Sony and UMG as the music AI copyright case heads toward a summer 2026 ruling.