
Suleiman Claims AI Takes White-Collar Jobs in 18 Months
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman says professional jobs face automation within 18 months. The data from independent studies tells a different story.
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman says professional jobs face automation within 18 months. The data from independent studies tells a different story.

Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the SDK automation startup behind developer tooling used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, for more than $300 million.

A unanimous jury in Oakland dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman after less than two hours of deliberation, finding all three counts barred by the statute of limitations.

IBM Research tests 25 agent configurations across 6 real-world benchmarks and finds backbone model choice matters 58x more than agent framework design.

South Korean startup LetinAR raises $18.5M to scale its PinTILT optical modules, which already power AI glasses and AR helmets as shipments hit 8.7 million units globally in 2025.

Google's next video model surfaced in the Gemini UI a week before I/O 2026, showing editing-first features including in-chat watermark removal and object swapping.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Personal Finance on May 15, giving Pro users read access to 12,000+ banks via Plaid - one day after a class action alleged OpenAI shared user conversations with Meta and Google.

ArXiv is issuing one-year submission bans to authors whose papers contain verifiable unvetted AI output, as fabricated academic citations hit a tenfold increase since 2023.

OpenAI's Codex coding agent arrives on iPhone and Android as a remote control for desktop sessions, with QR code pairing and live terminal output for its 4 million weekly users.

Raindrop's MIT-licensed Workshop streams every token and tool call from your AI agent to a local browser dashboard, then lets Claude Code write and fix evaluations automatically.

Mira Murati's startup unveils TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B MoE model that hits 0.40-second response latency by listening and generating speech at the same time.

Cerebras raised $5.55B and surged 68% on Nasdaq debut, the largest US tech IPO since Snowflake in 2020, but a 200x revenue multiple and a single-customer backlog tell a more complicated story.