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…
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.
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…
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,…
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…
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.
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.
General Compute raised a $15M seed in 2026 at a $60M post-money valuation (led by FUSE VC) to sell an inference cloud on SambaNova SN50 chips, with a $300M order targeting 600–700 tokens/sec vs ~250 on GPUs. Launched in late May 2026, the air-cooled, low-power setup is designed for existing data centers and claims top MiniMax 2.7 performance.
