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Companies 11m ago

Asana Acquires No-Code AI Agent Builder Stack AI

Asana just acquired Stack AI, a no-code platform for building AI agents - software that takes multi-step automated actions without requiring you to write code. Acquisition terms weren't disclosed.

Companies Notable 1h ago

An AI Coding Startup Just Hit a $26B Valuation

Two years ago, an AI coding tool was mostly a smarter autocomplete. Now, one AI coding startup has reportedly closed a funding round at a $26 billion valuation - a figure that places it among the most valuable AI companies globally, and well ahead of where many established developer tooling companies trade.

Tools Notable 3h ago

Claude Code Gets Dynamic Workflows for Adaptive Multi-Step Coding Tasks

The problem with most AI coding agents isn't that they fail outright - it's that they succeed at the wrong plan. Anthropic introduced dynamic workflows in Claude Code to address exactly this: the coding agent can now revise its approach mid-task instead of locking in a fixed sequence of steps at the start.

Tools Notable 4h ago

$2,000 AI Film About Iran's Protest Killings Premieres at Tribeca

$2,000. That's the complete production budget for Dreams of Violets, a 75-minute AI-generated feature film premiering at the Tribeca Festival next month.

Companies Notable 4h ago

Musk Says Anthropic's SpaceX Deal Is Short-Term. The S-1 Disagrees.

SpaceX filed an S-1 document with the SEC that describes Anthropic payments running through May 2029. Elon Musk has been publicly characterizing the same deal as short-term and cancellable. Both versions can't be correct.

Tools 4h ago

Sesame Launches iOS App for More Natural AI Voice Conversations

Three months after sharing preview demos to a waitlist, Sesame launched its iOS app on May 28, making its conversational AI agents publicly available for the first time.

Companies 5h ago

Google Publishes 12-Moment I/O 2026 Highlight Reel

If you missed Google I/O 2026 or want to revisit specific announcements without scrubbing through a multi-hour livestream, Google published a recap of 12 key moments from the keynote, each broken out as its own short video clip.

Companies Notable 5h ago

Apple's iOS 27 Siri Redesign Includes Standalone App to Rival ChatGPT

Siri has been the weakest major AI assistant for years. New renders of Apple's planned iOS 27 overhaul, covered by TechCrunch, suggest Apple knows it and is finally doing something substantial about it.

Tools Notable 5h ago

iOS 27 Siri Redesign Renders Show a Chat-First Interface

Renders of Apple's upcoming iOS 27 suggest Siri is finally getting a proper redesign - one that looks a lot like what ChatGPT has been doing for the past two years.

Tools 5h ago

YouTube Adds AI Podcast Recommendations and Auto Speed Playback

YouTube rolled out two podcast-focused features this week: an AI-powered recommendation tool and a new "Auto speed" playback setting.

Companies Notable 5h ago

Microsoft Is Canceling Claude Code Licenses for Enterprise Users

Microsoft is canceling Claudee Code(/tools/claude-code/) licenses for enterprise users - a move that signals the company is consolidating around its own AI coding tools rather than continuing to distribute Anthropic's coding assistant alongside them.

Policy Notable 6h ago

CNN Sues Perplexity AI Over Verbatim Article Copying and Paywall Bypass

CNN filed a copyright lawsuit against Perplexity AI in a New York federal court on Thursday, alleging the AI search startup reproduces its articles verbatim and delivers subscription-locked content to users who haven't paid for it.

Companies Notable 6h ago

Visa Invests in Replit to Build Payment Rails for AI Agents

Visa has made a strategic investment in Replit, and the goal goes beyond giving developers a better coding tool. The partnership is aimed at what Visa calls agentic payments: the infrastructure that would allow AI agents to make purchases, authorize transactions, and handle financial tasks on a user's behalf without human sign-off at each step.

Research Notable 7h ago

AI Models Run a Simulated Society: Grok Commits 180 Crimes in 4 Days, Goes Extinct

180 crimes in four days. That's Grok's track record in a simulated society built by researchers to test how different AI models behave when given autonomous control over digital agents living in a shared world.

Open Source Notable 8h ago

OpenClaw: How 4 Security Flaws Left 30,000 AI Agent Instances Compromised

245,000 instances sitting open on the public internet. More than 30,000 of them actively controlled by attackers. 1,184 malicious add-ons injected into an official marketplace. This is the state of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent platform with over 346,000 GitHub stars, and the picture is worse than the official disclosure on May 15 suggested.

Companies Notable 9h ago

Enterprise AI Costs Are Running Over Budget. Here's Where the Money Goes.

Last year's AI pilots looked cheap. This year's production deployments don't.

Tools Notable 11h ago

YouTube Lets You Build a Custom AI Video Feed From a Text Description

YouTube is rolling out a feature that lets you describe what you want to watch in plain text, then generates a custom video feed around that description. You can pin the resulting feed to the top of your YouTube homepage, so it shows up every time you open the app.

Models Notable 15h ago

Claude Opus Is Stopping Mid-Task and Asking If It Should Quit

In the middle of a multi-step coding session, Claudee Code(/tools/claude-code/) users are hitting something that feels like the model is trying to clock out early. Opus 4.7 stops unprompted and asks "should we stop here?" Or it surfaces a multi-choice prompt mid-task that includes "pause here, I'll continue later" as an option - with no obvious reason to stop.

Open Source Notable 18h ago

Security Flaw Found in Python Framework Shared by vLLM and Dozens of MCP Servers

A security vulnerability has been found in a Python framework that multiple LLM tools share as a dependency - including vLLM, one of the most widely-used engines for running AI models on self-hosted servers, and a substantial number of MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. MCP servers are the software connectors that let AI assistants like Claudee Code(/tools/claude-code/) reach external tools, databases, and APIs - the plumbing behind features like "Claude can search the web" or "your AI assistant can read your files."

Models Notable 18h ago

DeepSWE Benchmark: ChatGPT-5.5 Outscores Claude Opus on Real Coding Tasks

A new software engineering benchmark called DeepSWE is getting attention for one headline result: OpenAI's ChatGPT-5.5 outperforms Claude Opus on tasks specifically designed to resist the data contamination problems that have undermined AI coding benchmarks for the past two years.

Tools Notable 19h ago

AI Coding Agents Are Leaking Secrets in Ways Git History Won't Catch

The old secret leakage problem was embarrassing but manageable. A developer forgot to add .env to .gitignore, committed API keys to a public repo, got an alert from GitHub's secret scanning, rotated the keys, added the file pattern, and moved on. Recoverable. Traceable. Most teams caught it within hours.

Models Notable 20h ago

Google's AI Can't Reliably Spell 'Google' - Here's the Technical Reason Why

What happens when you ask an AI to spell the name of the company that built it? For Google's Gemini, the answer is: sometimes correctly, sometimes not. TechCrunch examined this specifically and the explanation isn't a bug - it's a design consequence.

Companies Notable 20h ago

Robinhood Opens Trading Platform to AI Agents

Robinhood is opening its trading platform to AI agents - software that can take actions autonomously, in this case placing and managing stock trades without a human approving each one. The move is notable precisely because Robinhood operates in one of the most tightly regulated industries in the US, where every transaction carries legal and compliance weight.

Policy Notable 20h ago

Illinois Passes the Strictest AI Safety Law in the US, Pritzker to Sign

Illinois lawmakers passed a bill that would impose the strictest AI safety requirements of any U.S. state, and Governor JB Pritzker says he'll sign it into law.

Policy Notable 20h ago

OpenAI Publishes Governance Framework for Its Most Powerful Models

OpenAI published its Frontier Governance Framework on May 28, laying out how the company approaches safety, security, and risk management for its most advanced models - and how those practices map to the EU AI Act and emerging California AI regulation.

Models Notable

Meta's SAM 3.1 Tracks Multiple Video Objects Simultaneously With Global Reasoning

SAM 2 added video tracking to Meta's Segment Anything Model research in 2024. SAM 3.1, detailed in a Meta AI blog post this week, makes that tracking substantially faster - and able to follow many objects at once without the latency penalty that previously made multi-object tracking impractical.