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Anthropic × Gates Foundation $200M Partnership: Claude heads into polio, HPV, and smallholder farms
Anthropic and the Gates Foundation just signed a $200M, four-year deal to push Claude into places enterprise AI has barely touched — global health programs in low-income countries, overlooked diseases, and smallholder agriculture. Half the money is grant funding from Gates. The other half is Claude credits plus Anthropic engineers on loan. What Claude is… Continue reading
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Claude for Small Business plugs into QuickBooks, HubSpot, and 5 other tools SMBs already pay for
Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on May 13. It’s a toggle-install SKU — flip a switch, Claude shows up inside QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365. No IT team required, no API wiring, no integration weekend. What’s actually in the box The package ships with ready-to-run automation workflows: invoice chasing… Continue reading
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ServiceNow Autonomous Workforce resolves IT tickets 99% faster than humans
ServiceNow used Knowledge 2026 to draw a line. President Amit Zavery on stage: “Advisory AI has run its course; enterprises need AI that senses, decides, and securely acts.” Translation — copilots are done. Agents that finish the work without a human are in. What it actually does Autonomous Workforce is a suite of AI specialists… Continue reading
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Anthropic to acquire Stainless for $300M+ — buying the developer pipe to OpenAI and Google
Anthropic is reportedly in advanced talks to buy Stainless for at least $300 million. That’s 2x what the company was worth five months ago, when a16z led its $25M Series A at a $150M valuation. What Stainless actually does Hand it an OpenAPI spec, and it ships you idiomatic SDKs in Python, TypeScript, Go, Kotlin… Continue reading
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Google Gemini Intelligence for Android arrives this summer, hitting Pixel and Samsung first
Google just rebranded Android. At The Android Show I/O Edition on May 12, 2026, Google’s product VP said it out loud: “We’re moving from an operating system to an intelligence system.” That sentence is the whole strategy. Gemini Intelligence is the new name for everything Gemini does on your phone, and it ships this summer… Continue reading
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Google retires Chromebook for Googlebook, betting the laptop on Gemini
Google just made its biggest hardware reframing in a decade. It unveiled Googlebook on May 12 — a line of AI-native laptops built from the ground up around Gemini. ChromeOS is being quietly phased out. The new platform runs on an Android foundation. First units ship fall 2026, made by Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and… Continue reading
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Sierra Ghostwriter ($950M Series E) closes the largest pure-play AI agent round ever
Bret Taylor’s Sierra just raised $950M at a $15B+ post-money valuation — the biggest single round any AI-agent-only company has ever pulled. Tiger Global and GV led. Benchmark, Sequoia, and Greenoaks piled in. Sierra now says it serves 40%+ of the Fortune 50 and went from $100M ARR in November to $150M by early February.… Continue reading
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Google: First AI-Generated Zero-Day Exploit Caught in the Wild
The “AI will write malware someday” debate is over. On May 11, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group confirmed the first documented case of criminals using an LLM to find AND weaponize a working zero-day — a 2FA bypass in a widely-used open-source web admin platform. Not a research demo. A live attack, aimed at mass exploitation.… Continue reading
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OpenAI MRC Protocol scales Ethernet to 131,000 GPUs — and gets every chip giant to sign on
On May 6, OpenAI, AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, Microsoft and Broadcom co-released MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection) and handed it to the Open Compute Project as an open spec. It’s not a product. It’s a networking protocol — and it’s pointed straight at InfiniBand’s last stronghold. What MRC actually is MRC is an extension of RoCE (RDMA… Continue reading
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Anthropic × Akamai $1.8B compute deal bets on edge inference for Claude
Anthropic just locked in $1.8 billion of inference capacity with Akamai over multiple years. One day earlier, they rented the entirety of Colossus 1 from xAI. Two massive compute deals in 48 hours. What the deal actually is This isn’t training compute. It’s pure inference — running Claude for paying users. Akamai brings something the… Continue reading
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