Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Cuts API Prices 99% Across Multimodal
Xiaomi cut MiMo-v2.5 API prices up to 99% effective May 27 across chat, image, audio, video understanding, and TTS, with OpenAI and Anthropic compatible endpoints.
Bonsai Image 4B: 1-Bit AI Image Gen Runs on iPhone
PrismML released Bonsai Image 4B with 1-bit and ternary checkpoints under Apache 2.0. The model retains 95% of FLUX.2 Klein 4B quality at 6.4x smaller size and runs directly on iPhone.
Google AI Studio Hits 250K Android Apps in 7 Days
Google AI Studio's prompt-to-Android-app builder hit 250,000 generated apps in its first seven days, with 99 percent of users never having written Android code before.
MiniCPM5-1B: 1B Local LLM Beats Qwen3.5-2B on Open Index
OpenBMB's MiniCPM5-1B is a 1.08B Apache 2.0 LLM that ranks first on the Artificial Analysis index for small models, scoring 17.9 against Qwen3.5-2B's 16.3, runs on CPU, and supports a 131K-token context.
Reallusion AI Studio: 3D Control Layer for AI Video
Reallusion launched AI Studio on May 25, 2026, pairing iClone 3D animation tools with ByteDance Seedance video generation for 3D-controlled AI video.
Pretzel: Chat-Driven AI Music Sequencer from Google I/O
Developer Shukant Pal built Pretzel at the Google I/O hackathon on May 24, 2026: a live web-based music sequencer where an AI agent controls what everyone hears. No signup required.
Reasonix: $12 DeepSeek Coding Agent vs $61 Claude Code
An open-source DeepSeek-native coding agent built around prefix-cache stability. A 435M-token session that costs $61 on Claude runs $12 on Reasonix.
George Hotz: AI Agents Are a Slot Machine for Creative Work
George Hotz argues AI agents frontload impressive progress but stall on polish, creating a golden era of AI-generated slop that creators need to plan for.
MooshieUI Brings ComfyUI to Beginners with Anima Support
MooshieUI is a new ComfyUI frontend that replaces the node graph with a clean three-panel interface. It includes one-click install, 13 model family presets including Anima and Illustrious, and built-in tiled upscaling.
CodeGraph MCP Cuts Claude Code Costs 35%
CodeGraph v0.9.4 is a free, open-source MCP server that pre-indexes your codebase into a semantic knowledge graph, cutting Claude Code costs 35% and tokens 57% across seven real-world benchmarks.
Why DeepSeek's Permanent V4-Pro Price Cut Resets the Floor
DeepSeek locked V4-Pro at $0.435 input miss, $0.003625 cache hit, $0.87 output per million tokens on May 23, ending the May 31 expiry and resetting the price floor for frontier reasoning APIs.
Sora Shutdown Strands AI Movie Critterz at Cannes
OpenAI-backed AI feature Critterz arrived at the Cannes market this week without its planned in-festival premiere, after losing Sora as a core tool mid-production. The miss tests the AI-native film pitch and exposes a vendor-risk lesson for working animators.
ChatGPT PowerPoint Plugin Builds Slides From Any Source
OpenAI shipped a ChatGPT add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint on May 22 that builds, edits, and audits decks from prompts on every ChatGPT tier.
Claude Mythos Found 10,000 Critical Software Bugs
Anthropic reported that Mythos Preview found over 10,000 critical software bugs through automated security analysis.
Perplexity Open-Sources Bumblebee Supply-Chain Scanner
Perplexity open-sourced Bumblebee, a read-only supply-chain scanner for macOS and Linux that detects compromised packages.
Microsoft Cancels Claude Code as AI Costs Exceed Salaries
Microsoft has canceled most Claude Code developer licenses after token-based billing consumed the company's annual AI budget in less than six months. Uber hit the same wall. The numbers behind this enterprise crisis have direct implications for any creator paying AI tool subscriptions.
OpenAI Codex Computer Use: Automate Mac While Locked
OpenAI released Computer Use for its Codex desktop app, letting the AI agent control macOS applications even when your Mac screen is locked and off.
Spotify and UMG Strike AI Cover and Remix Licensing Deal
Spotify and Universal Music Group announced a licensing deal on May 21 that clears the legal path for fans to make AI covers and remixes of UMG songs inside Spotify, launching as a paid Premium add-on.
Claude Code 2.1.147 Ships /code-review With Effort Levels
Anthropic shipped Claude Code 2.1.147 on May 21 with a configurable-effort /code-review command and a May 22 hotfix 2.1.148 for a Bash regression.
Gemini App Adds Canva Live, CapCut Coming, Adobe Soon
Canva is live in Gemini today via @Canva command. CapCut and Adobe Creative tools are next, turning Gemini into a one-window stop for design.
Google AI Studio Adds Free Cloud SQL and Firestore
Google AI Studio added free Cloud SQL and Firestore on May 21 with a two-app Starter Tier for vibe-coded full-stack builds, no billing account required.
Framedex: Search Your Video Archive Locally with Gemma 4
A solo developer just open-sourced framedex, an MIT-licensed local pipeline that indexes a year of personal video footage on a 2021 MacBook using a quantized Gemma 4 31B model running through LM Studio.
Antigravity 2.0 Beats Codex on 3D CAD Benchmark
Google Antigravity 2.0, the agent-first desktop platform from I/O 2026, took the top score on a new OpenSCAD 3D CAD benchmark over Codex 5.5 and the rest of the field.
Hell Grind: $500K AI Feature Premieres Near Cannes
Higgsfield AI premiered a 95-minute sci-fi feature, Hell Grind, in Cannes on May 21. A 15-person team built it in 14 days for under $500K using ByteDance Seedance 2.0. Compute ate 80% of the budget.