A book examining how artificial intelligence distorts people’s sense of reality is now under scrutiny for its own use of AI-generated content. Steve Rosenbaum, author of The Future of Truth and…
Cognition CEO Scott Wu says his AI coding agent, Devin, is designed to work alongside human programmers — not replace them — even as his company raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation in May…
Enterprise AI search company Glean announced in 2026 that it has reached $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), tripling from the $100 million milestone it hit just 15 months prior. The seven-year-old startup is accelerating growth even as major tech companies enter the…
Asana has acquired StackAI, a no-code AI agent-builder, for $75 million, the company announced Thursday in May 2026 alongside its quarterly earnings and investor call. StackAI’s co-founders, Tony…
Microsoft rolled out a redesigned 2026 Microsoft 365 Copilot, claiming its cleaner interface loads twice as fast on desktop and mobile. “Progressive disclosure” surfaces tools by prompt, paired with a formatted, auto-expanding prompt box and the existing side-panel chat.
AWS says its new OpenSearch Serverless generation (launched May 2026) is redesigned for AI agent spikes by decoupling compute from storage—scaling up in seconds and down to zero when idle—so customers pay nothing in quiet periods, with native integrations for Vercel and Kiro.
Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H funding round in May 2026 at a $965 billion post-money valuation, in what the company suggests may be its last private fundraise before an IPO.
The round was…
Meta will launch paid “Plus” subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp in summer 2026: Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus are $4/month, WhatsApp Plus is $3/month. Maria Cubeta calls it part of “Meta One,” which will later add pricier business/creator tiers and more Meta AI access—echoing Snapchat+, launched at $4/month in 2022 and reaching a $1B annualized direct-pay run rate with 25M+ subscribers in Feb 2026.
Anthropic released Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, only 41 days after Opus 4.7 and at the same price. It’s more likely to flag uncertainties and avoid unsupported claims, and Dynamic Workflows (research preview) lets Claude Code + Opus 4.8 coordinate hundreds of parallel subagents for migrations spanning hundreds of thousands of lines.
CNN filed suit in New York on May 28, 2026, alleging Perplexity’s Comet outputs “verbatim” CNN articles and paywalled content. CNN says talks over a Comet Plus deal (Oct. 2025) ended in Nov. 2025 and its stop letter went unanswered; Perplexity spokesperson Jesse Dwyer says, “You can’t copyright facts.”
YouTube announced on May 28, 2026, that it is rolling out several new podcast features for Premium subscribers, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an “Auto speed” playback setting, and a…
Sesame’s iOS public preview (May 28, 2026) launches in 39 countries with four agents—Maya, Miles, Simone and Charlie—and tackles response speed vs accuracy by running parallel fast searches while replying. It’s free, though sign-ups may wait; a prior research preview hit 1M+ users in weeks, per Sequoia.
