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YouTube announced on May 28, 2026, that it is rolling out several new podcast features for Premium subscribers, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an “Auto speed” playback setting, and a…
Sesame’s iOS public preview (May 28, 2026) launches in 39 countries with four agents—Maya, Miles, Simone and Charlie—and tackles response speed vs accuracy by running parallel fast searches while replying. It’s free, though sign-ups may wait; a prior research preview hit 1M+ users in weeks, per Sequoia.
General Compute raised a $15M seed in 2026 at a $60M post-money valuation (led by FUSE VC) to sell an inference cloud on SambaNova SN50 chips, with a $300M order targeting 600–700 tokens/sec vs ~250 on GPUs. Launched in late May 2026, the air-cooled, low-power setup is designed for existing data centers and claims top MiniMax 2.7 performance.
Visa’s May 2026 undisclosed investment in Replit aims to let developers—and the AI agents they build—accept payments directly in Replit without switching platforms. Replit and Visa are exploring Visa Intelligent Commerce and the Trusted Agent Protocol; Visa says 1,000+ employees use Replit, and Replit will offer 2026 self-serve enterprise contracts up to $200,000 with SSO, audit logs, and advanced permissions.
May 27, 2026: Google Home’s Gemini AI can trigger automations from camera detections (e.g., “raccoons near the trash bins” or a “red BMW enters driveway”), but waits briefly and warns against instant safety alerts. It supports Nest and “Gemini Built-In” third-party cameras for US English Public Preview users with AI descriptions enabled, plus a $20/mo ($200/yr) Home Premium Advanced subscription.
YouTube’s AI “custom feed” lets U.S. signed-in users (English) generate a pinned video lineup from text prompts on mobile or desktop, with the feature announced in 2026. It requires search and watch history, supports prompt edits via the top text box, and includes a “Something wrong?” feedback option.
Illinois House passed SB 315 on May 28, 2026, requiring “frontier AI” labs like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind to get independent auditors to verify safety practices. Gov. JB Pritzker says he’ll sign; audits could be handled by Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PwC or the AI Evaluator Forum.
The U.S. Justice Department charged Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo with insider trading in May 2026, alleging he used confidential company information to earn more than $1.2 million in…
Lux Optics’ Halide Mark III hits iPhone/iPad in May 2026 with a film-simulation engine and five Looks—Valencia, Rembrandt, Nova, Zephyr, and Chroma Noir—co-developed with Hollywood colorist Cullen Kelly. Photo Lab’s Quick Edit covers Looks, HDR, and exposure; RAW import from Sony, Nikon, Canon, Fujifilm, Hasselblad, and Leica is beta. $59.99 or $19.99/yr.
Snowflake will pay $6B over five years to AWS for access to its ARM-based Graviton CPUs, aiming to power growing AI agent workloads, with the deal announced May 27, 2026. Snowflake notes $7B in AWS Marketplace sales since 2012, and customer spend on AWS doubling to $2B in 2025.
Triomics, a startup that builds AI tools for oncology teams, announced a $22 million Series B funding round in May 2026, led by Battery Ventures. Returning investors Nexus Venture Partners,…
Database provider ClickHouse has reached $250 million in annualized revenue run rate, tripling its business from the prior year, co-founder and president of product and technology Yury Izrailevsky…
Meta announced in May 2026 that it is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also beginning tests of new subscription tiers aimed at AI users,…
Amsterdam-based payroll startup Remote surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and reached cash-flow positive status in 2026, crediting a 50% increase in revenue per employee driven…
AI coding startup Cognition announced on May 27, 2026, that it has raised more than $1 billion in a new funding round at a $25 billion pre-money valuation — more than doubling its valuation in eight…
Motorola says some phones unintentionally routed users through an affiliate-tracking site before the Amazon Shopping app opened, briefly launching the browser and setting a cookie that attached an affiliate code to a Kira Abboud-linked URL. Reported by 9to5Google after a Reddit find, Motorola blamed a Moto App Launcher search/suggestion feature co-developed with Device Native; related docs were taken offline.
CrowdStrike, Google, and nonprofit Shadowserver took down the Glassworm botnet in May 2026, dismantling an operation that cybercriminals had used for two years to inject malware into open source…
Trajectory, launched in May 2026 by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI and Meta researchers, raised a $15M seed at a $115M post-money valuation led by Conviction with Bessemer VC, Radical VC and BoxGroup. Founded by Ronak Malde, it has 11 people and targets continual learning from real user interactions.