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OpenAI files confidential S-1 toward September IPO, Anthropic projects first profit of $559m at $10.9bn quarterly revenue, SpaceX prospectus reveals Anthropic's $15bn compute bill, Google ships Conversational Discovery ads at Marketing Live

2026-05-2328:14

Send us Fan Mail OpenAI is preparing to file a confidential S-1 with the SEC as early as this week, working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, targeting a September 2026 public listing at a valuation above $1 trillion. The Wall Street Journal first reported the timing, with WinBuzzer narrowing the filing window to Friday. OpenAI has not confirmed. Anthropic has told prospective investors it expects to post its first operating profit ever in the current quarter — $559 million on Q2 revenue...

Google ships Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Spark at I/O, AI Max for Search graduates and retires Dynamic Search Ads, Google launches Universal Commerce Protocol with Shopify and Walmart, AI Ultra subscription drops to $100

2026-05-2125:08

Send us Fan Mail Google used last night's I/O keynote at the Shoreline Amphitheatre to ship Gemini 3.5 Flash as the new default across the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, and the developer stack. Google's own benchmarks claim 3.5 Flash beats Gemini 3.1 Pro on Terminal-Bench 2.1, GDPval-AA, MCP Atlas and CharXiv Reasoning, while running at roughly four times the output-token speed of frontier rivals. Gemini 3.5 Pro is scheduled for June. Gemini Spark, a 24/7 personal AI agent that runs on cloud...

OpenAI partners Dell to ship Codex on-premises, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in US business spend on Ramp, xAI launches Grok Build at $300 a month

2026-05-2012:20

Send us Fan Mail OpenAI and Dell Technologies announced a partnership yesterday to bring Codex and ChatGPT Enterprise into hybrid and on-premises environments through the Dell AI Data Platform and Dell AI Factory. The deal lands at the moment Codex weekly developer usage crossed four million and gives OpenAI a serious enterprise distribution answer to Claude Code. Ramp's May 2026 AI Index, published yesterday, shows Anthropic overtaking OpenAI in US business spend for the first time. Anthropi...

Google I/O 2026 opens with Gemini Intelligence and Googlebook, ChatGPT shifts ads to cost-per-click bidding, Snap kills Perplexity's $400m AI search deal, Coty hands Consumer Beauty content to Pencil

2026-05-1922:49

Send us Fan Mail Google I/O 2026 opens tomorrow morning, Tuesday 19 May, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre. The Android Show on 12 May already locked in Gemini Intelligence, Googlebook on Aluminium OS, Android 17 with generative UI, and Android XR glasses with Samsung, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. The keynote tomorrow is expected to land a new Gemini model and the developer tooling that flows into Google Marketing Live on Wednesday. OpenAI quietly turned ChatGPT advertising into a measurable ...

YouTube ships AI Custom Sponsorships at Brandcast, Salesforce commits $300m to Anthropic tokens, Anthropic moves to buy Stainless, Apple readies Gemini-powered Siri for WWDC

2026-05-1817:46

Send us Fan Mail YouTube used its 2026 Brandcast on 13 May to ship the most credible AI ad stack in television this year: Custom Sponsorships matched dynamically by AI, Multimodal Video Creation powered by Gemini, Veo and Nano Banana, and Buy with Google Pay on connected TVs. It is the cleanest preview of what Google Marketing Live will land on Wednesday and the most useful direct-response brief any advertiser will read this weekend. Marc Benioff said on the All-In podcast, published Friday, ...

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