AI News. May 16, 2026.
GitLawb’s OpenClaude v0.12.0 is live, partners with GMI Cloud backed by NDVIDIA
BTC miner IREN closed $3B convertible note offering to push into AI cloud infra
Solana Accelerate AI conference went live with speakers, live demos, AI VCs and Erik Reppel creator of x402
Grok integrates Nous Research Hermes Agent for direct in-app deployment via subscriptions.
Bio protocol launched PEPTAI token on base, fleet of autonomous agents for peptide drug discovery
Together AI launched Gemma-4-31B-it-Pearl, an instruction-tuned Gemma 4 31B model powered by PRLNet













