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…
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…
Microsoft plans criminal referrals and legal action against “Nightmare Eclipse” after public disclosure of three unpatched bugs—BlueHammer, RedSun UnDefend, and YellowKey—affecting Windows Defender and BitLocker. A May 29, 2026 blog post says the researcher bypassed coordinated disclosure, even as Microsoft and CISA say the bugs are already being exploited.
More than 700 Wikipedia volunteers say they’re prepared to strike after the Wikimedia Foundation dissolved its Community Tech team on May 20, 2026. The five engineers and one manager built daily tools like plagiarism detectors and dark mode; WMF says it followed a Sept. 2025 review and denies union-linked firings.
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…
A phishing campaign is targeting Signal users by impersonating the app’s support team in an attempt to steal recovery keys that unlock encrypted chat backups, TechCrunch reported on May 28,…
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.
Bluesky rolled out an update in May 2026 that brings long-form content to its platform, integrating with Standard.site — a community project that enables articles, blog posts, and newsletters to be…
