Mistral Physics AI Shrinks Days of Simulation to Seconds
Mistral acquired Vienna-based Emmi AI and launched Physics AI - models that replace multi-day engineering simulations with seconds of inference on a single GPU.
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Anthropic Ships Opus 4.8 with Multi-Agent Workflows
Claude Opus 4.8 launches with dynamic workflows for parallel subagent orchestration, hitting 69.2% on SWE-bench Pro and introducing granular effort controls at unchanged pricing.
Anthropic Closes $65B Series H at $965B Valuation
Anthropic's $65 billion Series H closes at a $965 billion post-money valuation, pushing it past OpenAI as the most valuable private AI company - driven by $47B in run-rate revenue and a clear IPO runway.
Visa Bets on Replit to Win Agentic Payments Race
Visa invests in Replit and integrates its Trusted Agent Protocol into the coding platform, placing payment identity infrastructure directly inside the tools developers use to build AI agents.
Robinhood Opens AI Agent Trading to 27M Retail Users
Robinhood launched MCP-powered agentic trading in beta on May 27, letting AI agents from Claude and ChatGPT manage stock portfolios for 27.5 million retail customers - while regulators work out who's responsible when it goes wrong.
Cognition Raises $1B at $25B as Devin Hits $492M ARR
Cognition's $1B funding round at a $25B pre-money valuation puts Devin's $492M ARR and model-agnostic architecture under scrutiny as every major AI lab ships its own coding agent.
China Locks Down AI Talent at Alibaba and DeepSeek
China's government has extended travel restrictions to AI researchers at Alibaba, DeepSeek, and other private firms, requiring official approval before they can leave the country.
NVIDIA SANA-WM - Minute-Scale Video on One GPU
NVIDIA NVLabs open-sourced SANA-WM, a 2.6B-parameter world model that generates 60-second 720p camera-controlled video on a single GPU, outperforming 14B+ competitors that need 8 GPUs.
IRGC Hackers Used AI to Build Malware During Iran War
Iranian IRGC-linked group Nimbus Manticore used AI coding tools to build a new backdoor during the US-Iran conflict, targeting aviation and software firms across three campaign waves.
Olah Said AI Feels Emotions at the Vatican - Does It?
Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah told the Vatican that AI models show signs of introspection and emotional states. We checked what the research actually supports.
ClickUp Cuts 290 Jobs and Deploys 3,000 AI Agents
ClickUp cut 22% of its workforce and replaced them with roughly 3,000 internal AI agents - a ratio of three agents per remaining employee.
NextEra Buys Dominion for $67B on AI Power Demand
NextEra's $67B acquisition of Dominion creates the world's largest regulated utility to meet AI data center electricity demand.
