29 May 2026
Market snapshot: a barrage of cheer excites Wall Street
The appetite for the AI trade continues unabated, as apparently insatiable demand for stocks at the centre of the revolution remain in focus.
29 May 2026
Microsoft to release new coding model next week: Report
Microsoft will unveil a suite of new homegrown AI models next week at its annual “Build” conference for developers in San Francisco, including a coding model to boost the usage of its GitHub Copilot tool, the Information reported on Thursday.
29 May 2026
Is Phoebe Gates’s Phia the Most Celeb-Backed Shopping Startup of All Time?
Phia, the AI shopping app launched in April 2025 by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, wants to win the AI shopping race. Phia’s browser extension tool scans the internet while you shop, offering alternatives to whatever product you’re looking at, like a similar item at a better price or the same pair of pants available secondhand on Ebay; it’s designed to be a smarter shopping companion.
29 May 2026
Anthropic to roll out Claude Mythos in coming weeks, launches Opus 4.8
The company said Opus 4.8 will be available for the same price as its predecessor
29 May 2026
China’s AI Heist
A new front has opened in the U.S.-China competition in artificial intelligence: open-weight, local AI models. Until recently, the most capable AI models were too big and too costly to run anywhere but in giant data centers packed with expensive, specialized chips. But now these systems are rapidly migrating from the cloud to consumer hardware—including laptops and mobile devices—where they can…
29 May 2026
Anthropic soars to $965bn valuation, leapfrogging OpenAI
Claude maker raises $65bn from investors ahead of expected initial public offering. Anthropic has usurped OpenAI as the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence startup, soaring to a $965bn valuation ahead of expected public listings by the rival firms.
29 May 2026
AI maps how brain fluids move to clear waste
A new physics-informed AI framework turns MRI tracer data into detailed maps of brain fluid movement, revealing how slow diffusion and faster directed flow may shape the brain’s waste-clearing system. Study: MR-AIV reveals in vivo brain-wide fluid flow with physics-informed AI. Image Credit: Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock
28 May 2026
Meta’s mass layoffs hit nearly 3,200 Bay Area workers, among region’s worst job losses in years
As Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushes the company deeper into artificial intelligence, employee layoffs continue to mount.
28 May 2026
Tesla FSD Is Heading Into Austin City — Ashok Signals Next Step
Tesla's Director of Autopilot, Ashok Elluswamy, dropped a pointed hint on Wednesday: Full Self-Driving will soon be navigating Austin city streets on its own, 'reporting for duty.'
