Google’s May 2026 Gemini Omni Remix for YouTube Shorts includes creator opt-out plus a digital watermark and link back to the original. From the remix icon, choose “Reimagine” for pixel art, anime, found-footage horror, or edits like inflating heads, adding background actors, pirate costumes, or inserting yourself.
Truecaller, the caller ID app used by over 500 million people monthly, launched an eSIM service for travelers in May 2026, marking a significant expansion beyond its core product as the company faces…
NanoCo landed a $12M oversubscribed seed led by Valley Capital Partners after turning down a roughly $20M acquisition offer for containerized AI agent tool NanoClaw. Built as a security-first alternative to OpenClaw, NanoClaw runs sandboxed inside a container and went from first code to term sheet in under six weeks, boosted by open-source endorsements from Andrej Karpathy and Singapore’s Foreign Minister.
Stable Audio 3.0 (May 2026) boosts music generation to 6 min 20 sec—more than double Stable Audio 2.0—across 459M (small/SFX) through 2.7B (large). Small SFX/Small/Medium are open weights; large is API/paid self-hosting and needs an enterprise license for $1M+ revenue.
A wave of AI-powered search startups is drawing significant venture capital in 2026, with Exa Labs and Parallel Web Systems among the companies raising large rounds as the search industry undergoes a…
In a May 2026 memo, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi says it will cut ~3,000 jobs (~17% of its 18,200 employees as of July 2025) to reduce complexity and refocus on AI. TurboTax, QuickBooks and Credit Karma are in scope.
Quartermaster, an Arlington, Virginia-based startup, announced a $43 million Series A funding round in May 2026 to expand its maritime sensor platform, called SmartMast — a package of…
Figma has introduced an AI agent that operates directly within its collaborative canvas, allowing users to generate new designs, edit existing ones, and automate tasks using natural language prompts….
At I/O 2026 (announced in May 2026), Google unveiled Gemini Spark, a cloud AI agent that can run 24/7 across web, Android, and iOS, with 30+ external partners like Dropbox, Uber, and Spotify. Trusted testers start this week, with a US beta next week on Google’s Ultra plan. Google also says Gemini 3.5 Flash is expected next month.
In May 2026, GitHub said hackers stole data from ~3,800 internal repos after a poisoned VS Code extension compromised an employee device. GitHub reports no evidence customer info outside GitHub’s internal repos was affected; TeamPCP claims credit and sells the data.
YouTube announced three significant updates in 2026: an AI-powered conversational search feature called “Ask YouTube,” the integration of Google’s Gemini Omni video model into Shorts, and a broader…
Android 17’s “Continue On” adds Handoff-like pickup from phone to tablet, initially one-way. Announced in 2026, it brings tasks like document and email resuming and even loading the relevant browser page, with testing in RC1 and no release timeline yet.
