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Anthropic Acquires Stainless to Supercharge Claude Agent Connectivity

Anthropic announced today its acquisition of Stainless, the developer tools startup behind SDKs and MCP server tooling widely used by OpenAI, Google, Cloudflare and hundreds of other AI companies. The deal brings in-house critical infrastructure for connecting AI agents to external data sources and tools, accelerating Anthropic’s push into enterprise agentic workflows.

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This move gives Anthropic a strategic edge in the agent arms race by controlling the plumbing that powers rival models too—potentially reshaping how frontier labs build connected AI systems.

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Google I/O 2026 Kicks Off Tomorrow: Gemini 4.0, Android XR Glasses, and Agentic Coding Expected

Google has confirmed the keynote will spotlight the latest Gemini model updates and 'agentic coding,' widely seen as the Gemini 4.0 reveal. The two-day event starts May 19 at 10am PT with major implications for AI integration across Android and Workspace.

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Anthropic and Gates Foundation Launch $200M Partnership for AI in Health, Education, and Agriculture

Anthropic commits $200M in grants, Claude credits, and support to develop AI tools for global health, vaccine research, farming, and education in low-income countries. The four-year pact aims to make AI accessible for public good.

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Google Unveils Googlebook Laptops Powered by Gemini Intelligence

Google announced Googlebook, a new AI-first laptop category integrated with Gemini for seamless Android syncing, Magic Pointer, and on-device AI tasks. The hardware push aims to embed Gemini deeper into consumer devices amid competition from Apple Intelligence.

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Google: Hackers are using AI to weaponize zero-day vulnerabilities

Google's Threat Intelligence thwarted hackers using AI to discover and exploit zero-days for mass attacks, marking the first confirmed case of AI-generated exploits in the wild. Actors linked to China and North Korea are adopting AI for vuln discovery and autonomous attacks.

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Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.

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Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people

The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-massive company OpenAI, shouldn't direct the future of AI. Altman's lawyers, in turn, poked at Musk's own credibility. A jury came to a verdict on Monday after just […]

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All of the updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s battle over OpenAI

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead. After nearly a month […]

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Elon Musk loses his case against Sam Altman

After around two hours of deliberation, the jury has reached a unanimous verdict in Musk v. Altman, the tech trial of the year. The group found that two claims were barred by the statute of limitations, and a third failed thanks to the dismissal of one of these. The jury here is an advisory jury, […]

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Amazon Alexa Plus can now create AI-generated podcasts

Alexa Plus, Amazon's upgraded AI assistant, can now generate podcasts on "virtually any topic," according to an announcement on Monday. With the update, Amazon says you can give Alexa Plus a topic, and the AI assistant will offer an overview of what its AI hosts plan to talk about, allowing you to steer the conversation […]

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Anthropic Launches Claude for Small Businesses with Integrations into QuickBooks, PayPal, and More

Anthropic released Claude for Small Business, embedding its AI into tools like Intuit QuickBooks, HubSpot, Canva, and Microsoft 365 for workflows in finance, HR, and sales. The package includes 15 skills for tasks like contract review and payroll, targeting SMB adoption with free training tours.

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Voice AI startup Vapi raises $50M Series B at $500M valuation after powering Amazon Ring

Vapi, whose platform handles voice AI for enterprise including 100% of Amazon Ring's inbound calls, raised $50M in Series B funding led by Peak XV Partners, reaching a $500M valuation and total funding of $72M. The company has processed over 1 billion calls and seen 10x enterprise ARR growth.

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Isomorphic Labs secures $2.1B to scale AI drug design engine

Alphabet-backed Isomorphic Labs raised $2.1 billion in Series B funding to advance its IsoDDE AI platform for drug discovery and develop therapeutic pipelines. Led by Thrive Capital with participation from GV, CapitalG, and others, the funds will fuel global expansion and talent acquisition.

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Revamped Siri will reportedly offer autodeleting chats

Apple is hoping that its record on privacy can be the differentiator on the AI front and maybe even buy it a little slack as it continues to lag behind the competition. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the more chatbot-like Siri set to debut in iOS 27 will include the option to autodelete chat histories. […]

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University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, he was repeatedly drowned out by boos. AI is already a contentious topic, and it's not surprising that those about to enter a ravaged job market feel particularly negative about […]

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Chatbots at the drive-thru are just the beginning

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is seeping into our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started In 2021, McDonald's became one […]

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Nvidia Partners with David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence on Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure

Nvidia is collaborating with ex-DeepMind leader David Silver's startup Ineffable Intelligence to codesign infra for large-scale RL agents using Grace Blackwell and upcoming Vera Rubin platforms. Focus on handling RL's high interconnect and memory demands for knowledge-generating AI.

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Anduril Raises $5 Billion, as Push to Modernize the Military Accelerates

Anduril, a defense tech company specializing in AI-backed weapons, raised $5 billion valuing it at $61 billion, double its prior valuation. Led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, the funding supports autonomous drones, submarines, and major U.S. Army contracts amid accelerating military AI adoption.

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Mini Shai-Hulud worm hits TanStack, Mistral AI, and 170+ npm/PyPI packages

A supply chain attack compromised TanStack packages and spread to Mistral AI SDK, Guardrails AI, OpenSearch, targeting AI dev tools to steal credentials. Malicious versions used signed provenance to appear legitimate, prompting urgent credential rotations.

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Gates Foundation and Anthropic Launch $200M Partnership for AI in Health, Education, and Agriculture

Anthropic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commit $200M over four years to develop AI tools for global challenges in low- and middle-income countries. The partnership includes grants, Claude usage credits, and expertise to accelerate vaccines, education, and farming innovations. This marks a major push for practical, ethical AI deployment worldwide.

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Microsoft's MDASH Multi-Agent AI Scanner Uncovers 16 Unknown Vulnerabilities in Its Own Codebase

Microsoft's new MDASH framework, coordinating over 100 AI agents, identified 16 undisclosed vulnerabilities including 4 critical RCE flaws in Windows components; it scored perfectly on private evals. Palo Alto also used AI like Mythos to find 75 vulns across products.

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