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.
Visa’s May 2026 undisclosed investment in Replit aims to let developers—and the AI agents they build—accept payments directly in Replit without switching platforms. Replit and Visa are exploring Visa Intelligent Commerce and the Trusted Agent Protocol; Visa says 1,000+ employees use Replit, and Replit will offer 2026 self-serve enterprise contracts up to $200,000 with SSO, audit logs, and advanced permissions.
The U.S. Justice Department charged Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo with insider trading in May 2026, alleging he used confidential company information to earn more than $1.2 million in…
Snowflake will pay $6B over five years to AWS for access to its ARM-based Graviton CPUs, aiming to power growing AI agent workloads, with the deal announced May 27, 2026. Snowflake notes $7B in AWS Marketplace sales since 2012, and customer spend on AWS doubling to $2B in 2025.
Triomics, a startup that builds AI tools for oncology teams, announced a $22 million Series B funding round in May 2026, led by Battery Ventures. Returning investors Nexus Venture Partners,…
Database provider ClickHouse has reached $250 million in annualized revenue run rate, tripling its business from the prior year, co-founder and president of product and technology Yury Izrailevsky…
Meta announced in May 2026 that it is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also beginning tests of new subscription tiers aimed at AI users,…
Amsterdam-based payroll startup Remote surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and reached cash-flow positive status in 2026, crediting a 50% increase in revenue per employee driven…
AI coding startup Cognition announced on May 27, 2026, that it has raised more than $1 billion in a new funding round at a $25 billion pre-money valuation — more than doubling its valuation in eight…
CrowdStrike, Google, and nonprofit Shadowserver took down the Glassworm botnet in May 2026, dismantling an operation that cybercriminals had used for two years to inject malware into open source…
ElevenLabs launched Music v2 in May 2026, enabling mid-track genre switching (opera ↔ heavy metal) without losing coherence. The model supports section-based, text-prompt regeneration, intro/verse/chorus stitching, and more reliable results across languages, lyrics, vocals, and arrangements, built on licensed data cleared for commercial use.
Spotify launched a podcast clipping feature on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, allowing users to cut and share specific audio segments from episodes directly within the app.
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