Microsoft, Google, and xAI will give the U.S. government early access to their AI models for national security testing ahead of deployment
Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph
🇺🇸 TODAY: Microsoft, Google, and xAI will give the U.S. government early access to their AI models for national security testing ahead of deployment, per Reuters.
4:00 AM · May 6, 2026 · 10.3K Views
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Google Cloud and Solana Foundation launched Pay[.]sh, letting AI agents pay for API services via stablecoins on Solana with no account or subscription needed, built on Coinbase’s x402 standard
Solana Foundation @SolanaFndn
Introducing , in collaboration with
For the first time agents can discover, access, and pay-per-request for APIs from Google Cloud including Gemini, BigQuery, Vertex AI, and more using stablecoins on Solana.
No accounts, no subscriptions,
4:22 PM · May 5, 2026 · 323K Views
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IREN agreed to acquire cloud infrastructure firm Mirantis in an all-stock deal worth ~$625M, adding Kubernetes orchestration and enterprise support to its AI cloud platform
IREN is acquiring Mirantis.
Our advantage is infrastructure and execution.
This builds on existing capabilities and strengthens how compute is deployed, managed and operated.
Read more:
11:29 AM · May 5, 2026 · 1.87M Views
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OpenAI considered spinning out its robotics and hardware divisions ahead of its IPO but shelved the plan after concluding the entities would remain on its balance sheet regardless
Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph
⚡️ LATEST: OpenAI considered spinning out its robotics and hardware divisions ahead of its IPO, per WSJ.
The plan was rejected over concerns the new entities would still need to stay on OpenAI's balance sheet.
7:01 AM · May 5, 2026 · 17.3K Views
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Animoca Brands launched a $10M investment programme for early-stage projects building on Minds, its persistent AI agent platform
Animoca Brands → Miami #Consensus2026 🇺🇸 @animocabrands
We are announcing an investment programme for select projects building with Minds by Animoca Brands (“Minds”), also known as Animoca Minds, with up to US$10 million available for investment.
Minds is a persistent AI agent platform that removes complexity while preserving full
12:05 PM · May 5, 2026 · 19.9K Views
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Elastics raised a $2M pre-seed led by FRST Venture Capital to build AI agents for prediction markets, with angels from ElevenLabs, XBTO, Redstone, and a16z
Elastics raised $2M pre-seed for AI agents for prediction markets.
Led by , with angels from , , and .
Building AI-native operating system for prediction markets where you trade with words, and agents automate your trading.
8:04 AM · May 5, 2026 · 47.7K Views
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Intelligence Co launched Cofounder 2, an agentic platform that orchestrates AI agents across engineering, sales, marketing, ops, and design to run an entire company
andrew pignanelli @ndrewpignanelli
Announcing Cofounder 2: Run an entire company with agents.
It's the infrastructure for the one person billion dollar company - orchestrating agents across engineering, sales, marketing, ops, and design.
(and yes that's my real grandma in the video)
3:31 PM · May 4, 2026 · 3.26M Views
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ElevenLabs crossed $500M ARR and closed a new round backed by BlackRock, Wellington, and Nvidia
We just crossed $500M ARR and welcomed new investors to : BlackRock, Wellington, Nvidia, Santander, Jamie Foxx, Eva Longoria and more.
Natural, human-like communication will be critical to broad AI adoption - and these new investors help us accelerate that work.
11:03 AM · May 5, 2026 · 142K Views
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Intel hit an all-time high, up 12% on the day; Trump administration’s position is up 420% since August 2025 with $40B+ in unrealized gains
The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter
BREAKING: Intel stock, $INTC, extends gains to +12% on the day and hits its highest level on record.
The Trump Administration is now up +420% on their investment since August 2025, with an unrealized gain of over $40 billion.
1:51 PM · May 5, 2026 · 563K Views
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Subquadratic launched SubQ, a frontier LLM on a sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture with a 12M token context window, claiming 52x faster inference than FlashAttention at 1M tokens
Alexander Whedon @alex_whedon
Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.
It is the first model built on a fully sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture (SSA),
And the first frontier model with a 12 million token context window which is:
- 52x faster than FlashAttention at 1MM tokens
-
2:00 PM · May 5, 2026 · 9.58M Views
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OpenClaw will introduce LTS releases later in May after a rough update cycle caused gateway slowdowns and plugin dependency issues
TestingCatalog News 🗞 @testingcatalog
OpenClaw will start getting a long term support releases later in May! As a reflection from past updates which caused a degraded performance.
StableClaw 🦞
Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete
It's been quite a week. Good stuff is coming though. I hired a team! https://t.co/jTJONjVdIr
2:39 PM · May 5, 2026 · 26.1K Views
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Gemini 3.2 Flash briefly surfaced in the Gemini app ahead of Google I/O on May 19, where a Gemini 3.5 announcement is rumored
TestingCatalog News 🗞 @testingcatalog
GOOGLE 👀: Gemini 3.2 Flash became available on the Gemini app for a short time for some users.
So far we have:
- Gemini 3.2 Flash flashing on Gemini
- Updated Gemini 3 Flash models on LM Arena in testing
- Deprecation notice for Gemini 2 Flash on Vertex AI, promising upcoming
Just a dragon @Waguri_Kaoruko8
Gemini 3.2 Flash Spotted
3:21 PM · May 5, 2026 · 38.4K Views
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Anthropic released ready-to-run Claude agent templates for financial services, deployable via Cowork, Claude Code, or Managed Agents
New for financial services: ready-to-run Claude agent templates for building pitches, conducting valuation reviews, closing the books at month-end, and more.
Install them as plugins in Cowork and Claude Code, or use our cookbooks to run them in production as Managed Agents.
3:05 PM · May 5, 2026 · 6.79M Views
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Inworld AI released Realtime TTS-2 with sub-200ms latency, one voice identity across 100+ languages, and natural-language voice direction
Introducing Realtime TTS-2, a new generation of voice model built for realtime conversation.
It is the first voice model that hears the conversation, takes natural-language voice direction, holds one voice identity across over 100 languages, and speaks like a person who is
4:23 PM · May 5, 2026 · 188K Views
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AI Studio integrated Nano Banana for automatic image asset generation alongside a redesigned visual edit tool
Google AI Studio @GoogleAIStudio
new in ai studio ⬇️
we’ve integrated to automatically create custom image assets for your app as it generates
plus, the newly redesigned edit tool now gives you visual control of your app, allowing you to update components, annotate your app, and swap image assets
3:03 PM · May 5, 2026 · 50.9K Views
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Anchorage Digital launched Agentic Banking with Google Cloud, giving AI agents regulated infrastructure to transact across crypto and fiat rails
Anchorage Digital ⚓️ @Anchorage
With our new Agentic Banking system, enterprises and institutions get strict guardrails, audit trails, and multi-rail settlement engines.
5:01 PM · May 5, 2026 · 810 Views
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Tether’s AI research team is set to publish another local AI breakthrough this week, per CEO Paolo Ardoino
Paolo Ardoino 🤖 @paoloardoino
This week Tether AI research team will publish another breakthrough in local AI.
11:46 AM · May 5, 2026 · 14.9K Views
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Apple announced plans to let users choose from multiple third-party AI services to power features across its software
Apple will let users choose from a range of outside artificial intelligence services to power features across its software, building on a strategy to turn its devices into a comprehensive AI platform.
bloomberg.com
Apple to Let Users Choose Rival AI Models Across Its iOS 27 Features
5:30 PM · May 5, 2026 · 12.6K Views
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Lambda named Michel Combes, former Sprint CEO, as its next chief executive as part of a broader management overhaul
AI cloud-computing provider Lambda named Sprint veteran Michel Combes as its next CEO, part of a management overhaul aimed at positioning the startup for growth
bloomberg.com
AI Cloud Provider Lambda Taps Former Sprint CEO as New Leader
5:05 PM · May 5, 2026 · 11.6K Views
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Google rolled out Mind Map customization on NotebookLM, adding topic scoping, renaming, sharing, and smoother node navigation
Mind Maps are getting a major glow up 💅
These new features are rolling out today:
🚗Customization: Steer your map with specific user prompts
📂Organization: Rename and Share your maps instantly
🗺️ Navigation: Silky smooth transitions between nodes
Let us know what you think!
5:28 PM · May 5, 2026 · 55.9K Views
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Google released Multi-Token Prediction drafters for Gemma 4, delivering up to 3x faster output with no performance loss
Google for Developers @googledevs
Gemma 4: Now up to 3x Faster. ⚡
Same quality, way more speed. Our new MTP drafters allow Gemma 4 to predict multiple tokens at once, effectively tripling your output speed without compromising intelligence.
4:28 PM · May 5, 2026 · 387K Views
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Google released Pomelli Catalog, allowing users to add products or services for AI-generated personalized marketing campaigns and photoshoots
Pomelli By Google @PomelliByGoogle
Today, we're introducing Pomelli Catalog.📣✨
Add your products or services, and Pomelli will use them to generate personalized campaigns and high-quality photoshoots, tailored to your brand.
Free of charge. Available everywhere. Try it at:
3:59 PM · May 5, 2026 · 287K Views
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GPT-5.5 Instant is rolling out as the default ChatGPT model for all users, with improved factuality, memory personalization, and API access as gpt-5.5-chat-latest
GPT-5.5 Instant is starting to roll out in ChatGPT.
It’s a big upgrade, giving you smarter, clearer, and more personalized answers in a warmer, more natural tone.
And it's also more concise, which we heard you wanted. We think you'll love chatting with it.
5:02 PM · May 5, 2026 · 928K Views
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OpenAI launched a beta self-serve ads manager in ChatGPT with a CAPI, pixel for conversion tracking, and CPC bidding, with OpenAI reportedly modeling the platform after Meta’s ad infrastructure to target SMBs and eCommerce advertisers
Eric Seufert @eric_seufert
ChatGPT launches a CAPI, a pixel, and self-serve
"It’s not hard to imagine how the ad platform evolves from here. OpenAI is almost assuredly building a platform in the image of Meta’s, which means it will cater the platform to the needs of SMBs, particularly eCommerce and
6:02 PM · May 5, 2026 · 43.4K Views
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OpenAI launches self-serve ad platform
6:12 PM · May 5, 2026 · 13K Views
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Google’s Gemini API File Search now supports multimodal RAG (image + text), custom metadata filtering, and page-level citations — free of charge
Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK
Good news for AI builders: the File Search tool in the Gemini API is now multi-modal 🗃️, powered by our Gemini Embedding 2 model, + support for custom metadata & inline citations : )
File Search comes with storage and embedding generation at query time free of charge!
6:18 PM · May 5, 2026 · 35.3K Views
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Google AI Developers @googleaidevs
We’re expanding the Gemini API File Search tool 🔍 with 3 new updates that enable developers to more easily build multimodal RAG systems with enhanced precision:
+ Multimodal Support: By leveraging our Gemini Embedding 2 model, File Search can now reason across image and text
6:43 PM · May 5, 2026 · 61.1K Views
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Maket AI launched Drawing from Scratch, a free room design feature that lets users sketch floor plans, furnish spaces, and generate 3D renders using text prompts or reference images from Pinterest, Instagram, or any other source
Design ANY room for FREE 💥
Drawing from scratch lets you put your ideas right on the canvas.
And it’s now available on Maket for FREE!
Here’s a step by step breakdown 👇
5:00 PM · May 5, 2026 · 149K Views
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