Artificial intelligence news, model releases, and lab announcements.
Google announced Googlebook on May 12: a premium laptop tier above Chromebook, with a Gemini-aware cursor called Magic Pointer. Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are in.
Needle is a 26M-parameter function caller distilled from Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. The Simple Attention Network drops MLPs and runs at 6,000 tok/s prefill on edge silicon.
Brian Chesky dropped the 60% figure on an earnings call without defining how Airbnb measures it. Google claims 75%. The independent average is 27%.
A ChinaTalk investigation reveals how 'transfer stations' resell Anthropic API access using stolen credentials, model substitution, and prompt harvesting.
The DELEGATE-52 benchmark tests AI editing across 52 professional domains. Frontier models corrupt a quarter of document content over long workflows.
The 1998 Fields Medal winner reports GPT 5.5 Pro produced a novel proof for an unsolved math problem in 17 minutes, and says the era of owning theorems is ending.
Anthropic doubled Claude Code's 5-hour limits, killed peak-hours throttling, and raised Opus API tiers. The capacity comes from xAI's Colossus 1, via a SpaceX deal.
Snap revealed in its Q1 2026 earnings that its November $400M deal to put Perplexity inside Snapchat 'amicably ended' before any broader rollout shipped.
GitHub's new model multiplier table for Copilot Pro and Pro+ annual plans lands June 1. Opus 4.6 goes 3 to 27. Sonnet 4.6 goes 1 to 9.
Preemptive bids put Anthropic at $850B-$900B with a $50B raise. Run rate hit $30B in March, up from $9B at year-end 2025.
Alphabet posted $109.9B Q1 2026 revenue with Cloud up 63% and a $460B backlog. Sundar Pichai said Google will sell TPUs to select customers running them in their own data centers.
Big-tech AI capex is projected at $700B in 2026, up from $410B in 2025. Microsoft alone guided $190B. Wall Street is split: Meta got punished for the spend, Alphabet rallied.
Boris Cherny on Claude Code, Applied AI on prompting, Erik Schluntz on vibe coding in prod. Three Code with Claude tapes hit YouTube ahead of the 2026 conference.
Amazon shipped Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI on April 28, plus Codex on Bedrock. Altman tells Stratechery the runtime matters as much as the model.
Leaked internal Disney screenshots show 4,800 product and tech staff burning 3.1 billion Claude tokens and 13.3 billion Cursor tokens across nine April workdays.
On June 1 every Copilot plan switches to GitHub AI Credits priced per token. Code completions stay free. Fallback models and credit rollover do not.
Microsoft loses exclusive rights to OpenAI's models. The revenue share now caps at 2030 and stops depending on AGI. Here's what actually changed and who it benefits.
OpenAI says SWE-bench Verified is saturated and contaminated, and 60% of remaining problems are unsolvable. Here's what comes next, and why every coding leaderboard is suspect.