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Anthropic Acquires Fractional AI to Boost Enterprise Generative AI Services thecodew.com/2026/05/anthro…

Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

SpaceX S-1: Valor Equity founder Antonio Gracias, a longtime Elon Musk ally, controls a 4% stake in SpaceX, the second-largest disclosed holder after Musk bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The US Commerce Department plans to award $2B in grants to nine quantum computing companies and will take equity stakes; IBM is set to get $1B of the package wsj.com/tech/u-s-to-aw…

Other World Computing Introduces OWC Stack AI – The World’s First Thunderbolt 5 AI Accelerator and Storage Hub That Lets Users “Own Their AI” thecodew.com/2026/05/other-…

Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hypotheses, conduct testing, and understand scientific literature engadget.com/2177120/google…

Google introduces Antigravity 2.0, featuring an updated desktop app that lets users orchestrate multiple agents, alongside an Antigravity CLI tool and SDK techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goo…

Google launches the Gemini Omni multimodal model, saying it can “create anything from any input”, starting with video generation, for Google AI subscribers venturebeat.com/ai/google-unve…

Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash, its “strongest agentic and coding model yet”, for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode blog.google/innovation-and…

Shenzhen-listed RoboTechnik, which claims to be the largest silicon photonics tool maker and whose stock is up 340% over the past year, files for a HK listing forbes.com/sites/zinniale…

OpenAI partners with Malta's AI for All initiative to give citizens a free year of ChatGPT Plus if they complete a University of Malta AI literacy course cointelegraph.com/news/openai-pa…

OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/ope…

Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for $2.2B in cash adweek.com/agencies/publi…

Google unveils a “full bleed” Android Auto design that fills unconventionally shaped screens like in the BMW Neue Klasse, plans to add YouTube video streaming theverge.com/tech/927759/an…

Google unveils Gemini Intelligence, bundling existing and new Gemini features, including task automation across apps and letting users vibe-code Android widgets theverge.com/tech/928724/ge…

Google unveils Googlebook, its new laptop lineup featuring a unified OS merging ChromeOS and Android, with devices from Dell, HP, and others coming this fall zdnet.com/article/google…

Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default 9to5mac.com/2026/05/11/ios…

OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with a $4B+ investment to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, and acquires AI consulting firm Tomoro reuters.com/business/opena…

OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities testingcatalog.com/openai-announc…

Sony and TSMC announce a joint venture to build next-gen robot and car image sensors, as Sony moves from in-house manufacturing to a more asset-light approach bloomberg.com/news/articles/…