Latest news from the AI world
Week of May 19-21, 2026: Alibaba launches Qwen3.7-Max for autonomous agents, GitHub reveals a compromise via a malicious VS Code extension, NVIDIA publishes an open governance standard for AI skills, and Runway unveils Aleph 2.0 with Edit Studio.
May 20, 2026: an OpenAI model solves an open discrete geometry problem from 1946, Cohere releases Command A+ under Apache 2.0, NVIDIA launches a token-diffusion LLM, Gemini for Science, and Stable Audio 3.0.
May 19, 2026: Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic, Google I/O 2026 launches Gemini 3.5 Flash, Omni, Spark and Managed Agents, xAI launches Grok Skills, Cohere acquires Reliant AI for biopharma.
On May 18, 2026, Anthropic acquires Stainless to strengthen its SDK and MCP ecosystem. GitHub moves Copilot Business/Enterprise to GPT-5.3-Codex in a guaranteed 12-month LTS mode, and remote control of CLI sessions reaches general availability on mobile, web, VS Code, and JetBrains.
Claude Code v2.1.143 brings plugin dependency control, token cost estimation per turn, and a new background session isolation setting. Meanwhile, Kling AI is featured at the Cannes Film Market 2026.
Anthropic is launching a monthly credit dedicated to programmatic usage (Agent SDK, claude -p, GitHub Actions) starting June 15. OpenAI is refining Codex with customizable shortcuts and performance gains of up to 50x. GitHub is rolling out stateless installation tokens.
Week of May 13-15, 2026: Runway Agent reinvents video production, xAI launches Grok Build CLI, ChatGPT adds personal finance, GitHub ships Copilot App in technical preview, and Anthropic publishes its 2028 AI scenarios.
Week of May 11-12, 2026: Google unveils Gemini Intelligence on Android and the Googlebook, OpenAI launches Daybreak to automate cyber defense, GitHub improves Copilot code review and Dependabot.
OpenAI creates a deployment subsidiary with 19 partners, Anthropic opens Claude Platform on AWS to all AWS customers, xAI launches a real-time voice agent for customer support — plus GitHub Copilot, Gemini Personal Intelligence, and NVIDIA OpenShell.
OpenAI releases Codex CLI v0.130.0 with a headless app-server mode, Genspark reaches $250 million ARR in 12 months, and GitHub opens zero-downtime Enterprise migrations in public preview.
GitHub Copilot CLI moves into public preview with centralized enterprise plugin distribution, VS Code gets BYOK and broad semantic search, and Claude Code ships 60+ reliability fixes this week.
May 8, 2026: Anthropic publishes its paper on eliminating blackmail in Claude 4, DeepMind reaches 48% on FrontierMath Tier 4, OpenAI launches GPT-5.5-Cyber in limited preview. Plus 19 other announcements (Claude Code 2.1.136, Gemini CLI 0.41, Grok Connectors, NVIDIA Dynamo, ElevenLabs Studio Agent...).