Anthropic released Claude for Small Business, integrating Claude into QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Docusign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365 with 15 automated workflows covering finance, sales, HR, and operations.
Defense AI startup Anduril Industries raised $5B in a Series H co-led by Thrive Capital and a16z, doubling its valuation to $61B. The company doubled revenue to $2.2B in 2025 and will fund Arsenal-1 manufacturing expansion and Lattice platform advancement.
Anthropic has published an audiobook version of the Claude Constitution, narrated by the researchers and authors who wrote it, making AI transparency more accessible to a broader audience.
Grok has expanded its Connectors feature to all subscription tiers, enabling every user to integrate email, calendar, presentation tools, and Notion directly into their AI workflows.
xAI has launched Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0, a voice agent optimized for enterprise customer support scenarios, emphasizing low-latency responses and natural conversation flow.
OpenAI has added three new voice models with reasoning capabilities to the Realtime API, enabling developers to build low-latency voice applications powered by GPT-5-class intelligence.
The UK-based AI startup founded by former OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta researchers raised $650M at a $4.65B valuation to build recursively self-improving AI systems, backed by NVIDIA and GV.
Google DeepMind on May 12 unveiled Magic Pointer, a Gemini-powered AI cursor that reads visual and semantic context around the pointer to provide instant help without opening a separate AI chat window.
OpenAI on May 11 spun up OpenAI Deployment Company with $4 billion in initial funding and 19 global partners. The majority-owned subsidiary embeds Forward Deployed Engineers inside enterprises to redesign workflows around frontier AI.
Andrej Karpathy shared a practical tip: appending structure your response as HTML to any LLM prompt and viewing the result in a browser. He also outlined a broader vision for the evolution of human-AI interfaces, from text to interactive neural simulations.
OpenAI unveiled Daybreak, a cybersecurity platform combining GPT-5.5 and Codex to autonomously detect, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities. The launch escalates competition with Anthropic in the enterprise security AI market.
Elon Musk confirmed the dissolution of xAI as an independent company, folding Grok and all AI products into SpaceX under the new SpaceXAI division. The move follows the $1.25 trillion SpaceX-xAI merger and marks a major restructuring in the AI landscape.