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Voi Co-Founders Launch Pit AI Startup with $16M to Automate Enterprise Workflows

Stockholm-based Pit, founded by Voi's leadership team, has raised $16 million led by Andreessen Horowitz to build custom AI software for enterprise operations. The AI startup promises to replace fragmented SaaS tools with production-grade systems that learn company workflows and deploy in days, already saving early customers over 10,000 hours annually.

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OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft unveil MRC protocol to accelerate large-scale AI training

OpenAI has released Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), a new networking protocol developed with Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Microsoft and Broadcom, through the Open Compute Project. The protocol addresses critical bottlenecks in AI training by distributing data across multiple paths, enabling networks to support up to 131,000 GPUs with microsecond failure recovery. MRC is already deployed in OpenAI's frontier model training and Microsoft's GB200-based AI factories.

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Kids trick age verification with fake mustaches as Meta deploys AI to detect underage users

Meta is rolling out an AI system that analyzes visual cues like height and bone structure to identify underage users on Instagram and Facebook. The move comes after reports revealed children are bypassing online age checks using simple tricks, including drawing fake mustaches to fool facial age-estimation tools. One 12-year-old reportedly used an eyebrow pencil to pass as 15.

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Google shuts down Project Mariner as AI agent race takes a new direction

Google has quietly discontinued Project Mariner, the experimental AI feature that could automate web tasks by controlling your browser. Launched in December 2024, the AI browser agent's technology is being absorbed into Gemini Agent and AI Mode. The shutdown signals a strategic shift as the industry moves toward faster, more capable agentic AI tools.

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Anthropic Launches 10 AI Agents to Automate Wall Street's Most Time-Consuming Tasks

Anthropic unveiled 10 pre-built AI agents designed for banks, insurers, and asset managers to automate labor-intensive work like building pitchbooks and KYC screening. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, which scored 64.37% on the Finance Agent benchmark—outperforming GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro—the agents can be deployed in days and integrate directly with Microsoft Office apps.

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UFORCE reaches $1 billion valuation as robotic warfare transforms the Russia-Ukraine war

Ukrainian-British defence technology company UFORCE has achieved unicorn status with a valuation exceeding $1 billion following claims that unmanned systems seized enemy territory for the first time in warfare. The company has conducted over 150,000 combat missions since 2022, marking a significant shift in how wars are fought and raising questions about the future of autonomous weapons systems.

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06 May 2026

Arm doubles AI chip forecast to $2 billion as data centers set to become largest business

Arm Holdings revealed that customer demand for its new AGI CPU has reached $2 billion across fiscal 2027 and 2028, double its initial March forecast. CEO Rene Haas says data centers will soon overtake smartphones as the company's biggest revenue source, driven by surging CPU demand for agentic AI applications. But supply chain constraints at TSMC triggered investor concerns, sending shares down despite strong quarterly results.

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Atlassian Team '26 unveils agentic AI push as Rovo shifts from assistant to autonomous executor

Atlassian unveiled major AI updates at Team '26, transforming Rovo from a helper into an agent that plans and executes multistep work autonomously. The Teamwork Graph now contains over 150 billion connections and opens to external agents through new interfaces. Real-world implementations at Cisco and Pythian reveal both the promise and practical challenges of enterprise AI adoption.

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PhonePe AI Tool Slashes Payment Gateway Integration From Weeks to Minutes for Merchants

PhonePe unveiled an AI-driven system that transforms how businesses integrate payment gateways, cutting timelines from weeks to minutes. The AI Integration Agent uses AI coding assistants and proprietary Integration Intelligence to simplify the go-live process, particularly targeting small and medium enterprises with limited developer resources.

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Anthropic and SpaceX strike compute deal for 220,000 GPUs as orbital AI data centers loom

Anthropic has signed an agreement with SpaceX to access over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs at the Colossus 1 supercomputer in Memphis, providing more than 300 megawatts of new AI compute capacity. The deal doubles Claude Code rate limits for paid users and marks a surprising partnership between Elon Musk and a company he previously criticized. Anthropic has also expressed interest in developing orbital AI data centers with SpaceX.

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Google DeepMind takes minority stake in EVE Online maker to advance AI model training

Google DeepMind has acquired a minority stake worth millions in Fenris Creations, the newly independent studio behind EVE Online. The partnership will use the 23-year-old MMORPG as a testing ground for AI models focused on long-horizon planning and continual learning in complex player-driven systems, with experiments conducted on isolated offline servers.

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Anthropic doubles Claude rate limits with SpaceX compute deal, adds 220,000 Nvidia GPUs

Anthropic has doubled Claude Code's five-hour rate limits across Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans while removing peak-hour throttling. The increases in rate limits for Claude Code stem from a new compute agreement with SpaceX that grants Anthropic access to the entire Colossus 1 data center, delivering over 300 megawatts and 220,000 Nvidia GPUs.

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Hugging Face launches robot app store with 200+ apps for open-source Reachy Mini device

Hugging Face introduced a consumer robot app store for its Reachy Mini, featuring over 200 community-built applications that non-technical users can download or modify. The $299 open-source robot has already sold 10,000 units, with 3,000 shipped in the past two weeks alone. Using the ML Intern agent, anyone can now build functional robotics software in under an hour without coding expertise.

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Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents gain 'dreaming' to learn from mistakes and improve over time

Anthropic unveiled a dreaming feature for Claude Managed Agents that lets AI agents review past sessions, identify patterns, and self-improve without human intervention. The update also expands outcomes and multiagent orchestration capabilities, with early adopters like Harvey reporting 6x increases in task completion rates and Wisedocs cutting document review time by 50%.

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Twilio launches AI conversation platform to fix fragmented customer engagement experiences

Twilio introduced four new platform capabilities at its Signal conference to enable persistent, context-aware conversations across multiple channels for human and AI agents. The products—Conversation Memory, Conversation Orchestrator, Conversation Intelligence, and Agent Connect—aim to solve the broken infrastructure behind modern customer engagement by maintaining conversation history and context across different touchpoints.

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