May 2026

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 40 stories

1. 1OpenAI shifts the boundary of automated reasoning with a "milestone in AI mathematics" that experts are now unpacking92
2. 2AI Gateway production index
3. 3Google announces agent-optimized Gemini 3.5 Flash and a do-anything model called Omni - Ars Technica

The AI products people actually use. · 77 stories

1. 1Google announces glasses are back and search is getting an AI makeover - The Guardian92
2. 2Powered by A.I., Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years - The New York Times
3. 3Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 148 stories

1. 1Anthropic tops OpenAI as most valuable AI startup, nears $1 trillion valuation in latest round95
2. 2Anthropic Picks Co-Leads for $900 Billion Valuation Funding Round
3. 3Anthropic agrees terms of $30bn funding deal at $900bn valuation

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 76 stories

1. 1SoftBank pledges €75bn to build Europe’s biggest AI facility in France92
2. 2CoreWeave’s Balancing Act
3. 3SpaceX has a $55 billion plan to build AI chips in Texas

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 59 stories

1. 1Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader92
2. 2Prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy picks Anthropic over former home OpenAI to get back into frontier LLM research
3. 3OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team