May 4 – 10, 2026

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 25 stories

1. 1OpenAI’s new GPT-5.5 Instant makes ChatGPT smarter, with more concise and reliable responses82
2. 2NVIDIA AI Releases Star Elastic: One Checkpoint that Contains 30B, 23B, and 12B Reasoning Models with Zero-Shot Slicing
3. 3The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12M token window

The AI products people actually use. · 131 stories

1. 1Introducing deepsec: The security harness for finding vulnerabilities in your codebase78
2. 2How General Intelligence used agents to build an agent platform on Vercel
3. 3A company tested Claude Mythos Preview. It says the AI found a bug that existed for 20 years - Business Insider

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 81 stories

1. 1DeepSeek To Raise More than $7 Billion as Startup Plots Revenue Efforts92
2. 2AI money keeps flowing as Deepseek plans record raise and Core Automation quadruples valuation in weeks
3. 3Anthropic weighs deal for near $1tn valuation as revenue surges

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 64 stories

1. 1CoreWeave’s Balancing Act92
2. 2SpaceX has a $55 billion plan to build AI chips in Texas
3. 3Anthropic taps SpaceX's Colossus-1 data center for 220,000 GPUs to power Claude

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 99 stories

1. 1Google, xAI and Microsoft agree to US national security reviews of new AI models82
2. 2Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI
3. 3METR says it can barely measure Claude Mythos, Palo Alto Networks warns of autonomous AI attackers