AI
MongoDB Turned Agent Memory Into Database Plumbing. It Might Actually Help.
MongoDB's May 7 London launch tries to make agents less forgetful and less duct-taped. The pitch is glorified data plumbing, which is exactly why it feels credible.
Big Tech
Elon Musk Called Anthropic Evil — Then Leased Them His Entire Supercomputer
In February, Musk called Anthropic “misanthropic and evil.” In May, he handed them 220,000 GPUs, cleared them on his evil detector, and signed a receipt.
Startups
Corvera Raised $4.2 Million to Firefight Your Supply Chain Inbox
Corvera thinks CPG brands do not need more dashboards. They need fewer humans trapped between inboxes, ERPs, and Amazon settlement reports.
AI
Collibra Built an AI Panopticon for Agents
Collibra’s AI Command Center promises real-time oversight for agentic AI. The branding is surveillance chic, but the enterprise logic is harder to mock than I’d like.
Layoffs
Coinbase Discovered AI, So 700 Humans Became a Cost Structure
I like Coinbase. I want Coinbase to win. Which is why watching it dress a plain old layoff in AI-native cosplay is so irritating.
AI
GPT-5.5 Instant: Now with 52.5% Fewer Hallucinations, Zero Gratuitous Emojis, and Full Access to Your Gmail
OpenAI's new default ChatGPT model is smarter, less emoji-addicted, and reading your inbox. Progress!
AI
IBM Built a Control Plane for AI Agents. It Looks Weirdly Useful.
IBM's Think 2026 pitch is simple: your future AI mess needs a traffic tower. Peak enterprise theater, but the controls and data plumbing are annoyingly coherent.
Big Tech
OpenAI and Anthropic Both Invented the Same Company This Morning. Palantir Wants Royalties.
Two rival AI labs. One identical idea. Announced hours apart. Enterprise AI’s great leap forward looks suspiciously like a group project where nobody checked the shared doc.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive: AI Coding Agents Just Moved Into Your Repo and Brought Root Access
AI coding agents are moving from autocomplete to autonomous repo work. This guide explains the tech, incentives, risks, and hype cycle.
Big Tech
Mark Zuckerberg Is Spending $145 Billion on AI This Year. When Asked About the ROI, He Called It a “Very Technical Question.”
Meta smashed every earnings estimate, hiked its AI spending to $145 billion, and watched the stock drop 8% anyway. Zuckerberg’s explanation for the return on all that investment? “That’s a very technical question.”
Earnings
Big Tech Beat Earnings. Then AI Handed Wall Street the Receipt.
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft all showed real AI demand. The catch is that the boom now comes with a data center invoice attached.
Enterprise Tech
Planful Wants to Forecast Your Quarter in a Chat Window
Planful’s new Planner Assistant turns FP&A into a conversation. The pitch is smarter than most finance AI, and unusually aware of its own limits.