Google is building a Universal Cart that follows users across its apps, letting them track product prices and complete purchases in one place. Alongside the Universal Commerce Protocol and Agent Payments Protocol, it connects merchant data, enables cross-channel checkout, and supports AI-driven purchasing under user rules. Merchants still fulfill orders, but Google increasingly handles discovery and coordination across a persistent shopping experience that spans platforms.
Intuit is repositioning Mailchimp from a core growth engine to a profit-focused asset after failing to sell it, cutting investment as growth stalls. User numbers are flat at 11 million, revenue lags other segments, and pricing remains high versus competitors. While the platform still offers strong tools and scale, slower innovation and unclear roadmap direction are pushing marketers, especially those needing advanced automation, to seriously evaluate alternatives.
The rush to brand everything as AI is creating a credibility problem for marketers. PR executives say clients are forcing AI language into product names, press releases, and executive commentary even when the technology is simply better automation. With one account director estimating that half his outbound pitches overstate AI capabilities, the resulting journalist fatigue is making earned media placement significantly harder for companies with genuine AI stories to tell.
TLDR is hiring a VP of Marketing to scale growth, pipeline, and brand across 8M+ subscribers, 13 newsletters, and advertisers like AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Anthropic. Apply here [19].
Google has started testing several new ad formats in both standard search and in AI Mode. AI-generated ads for brands and products will now appear below the responses to some prompts in AI Mode. Ads with direct offers for discounted products will be displayed in standard search results. The ads will not appear in Gemini for now. Google will protect the ads against AI hallucinations with strong guardrails.
Starship's launch has been delayed due to a malfunctioning part in the launch tower. SpaceX may try launching again today if the problem is fixed in time. The postponed test mission will deploy 20 Starlink simulators and stress-test tiles designed to protect the craft as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere. The new investigation of Starship is designed to carry 100 metric tons to low-Earth orbit - the company's workhorse Falcon 9 vehicle can carry roughly 23 metric tons.
Retatrutide, an experimental shot by drugmaker Eli Lilly, was so powerful in human trials that participants stopped taking it because they thought they were losing too much weight. The results for some of the heaviest patients were on par with those seen with gastric bypass surgery. There are some side effects at higher doses, such as gastrointestinal side effects so unpleasant that some patients stop taking it. Eli Lilly has not yet applied for regulatory approval.
Figure AI has been livestreaming its humanoid robots placing packages onto a conveyor belt since May 13. The livestream has become a viral sensation. It was originally intended to only run for eight hours, but the company decided to continue the livestream 24/7 after the initial time was up. Viewers have named the robots and Figure plans to roll out related robot merchandise.
AI is making extension development more approachable than ever. Google is expanding developer registration to over 120 additional countries this year. The Chrome team is dedicated to elevating the extension developer experience and has expanded store permissions, modernized platform APIs, and introduced AI-integrated tooling to remove friction from workflows. This post details some of the biggest new features the team has introduced.
One way to make sure that agents complete tasks correctly is to make them hill climb on verifiable problems. Comprehensive conformance test suites are valuable because they help guarantee that agents produce what developers actually want them to. TLA+ is a formal spec language for modeling complex systems with many moving parts. Formal languages have proof checkers and other ways of catching many of the types of hallucinations that language models create.
SpaceX has adopted a corporate governance policy that will erode typical shareholder protections and give Elon Musk virtually unchecked executive authority when the company goes public. It is combining supervoting shares, mandatory arbitration, stricter rules on shareholder proposals, and Texas corporate law to give Musk and other insiders broad control. The rules sharply limit investors' ability to challenge management, sue in court, and force votes on governance issues. It will protect SpaceX from the kind of criticism aimed at Tesla, where investors have challenged Musk on issues ranging from his pay package to the acquisition of his solar energy company, SolarCity.
ClickUp is in the strongest position it's ever been in, but the company decided to cut 22% of its staff to operate at its highest level of productivity. The savings from the change will flow directly back to the staff who stay. The company plans to introduce million-dollar salary bands for staff who create outsized impact using AI. Staff affected by the cuts will receive packages aimed at honoring their contributions and easing the transition.
Zero unblocks your agents so they can discover services to accomplish tasks, no APIs keys or config. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenClaw, Hermes and most other CLI agents.
Cursor's annualized revenue hit $3 billion in late April. The company now has more than 3,000 customers paying at least $100,000 each for its software on an annualized basis. The business has become one of the fastest-growing startups of all time. SpaceX has the right to buy Cursor for $60 billion during a 30-day window that starts soon after it begins trading publicly. SpaceX is expected to list its shares on June 12.
Manus has been told to unwind its acquisition by Meta by China's regulators. Its founders now need to raise funds to buy back the operation. They are now in discussions for funding and may chip in with their own money to finance the transaction. A reversal of a deal this large months after completion is virtually unheard of.
Microsoft plans to supply its Maia AI chips to Anthropic, which currently faces compute challenges despite partnerships with Amazon and Google. Anthropic's increasing AI-assisted programming needs could benefit from Maia's 30% improved performance. A $5 billion investment by Microsoft in November strengthens this potential collaboration.
Cursor described lessons from building cloud agents, emphasizing durable execution, isolated development environments, self-healing infrastructure, and cleaner separation between agent state and conversation state.
Local, open-weight models running on older commodity hardware are becoming more and more competitive with models on the frontier. This has big implications for what frontier labs will be able to charge for their biggest models. Many applications don't need the best models, so it's not worth paying the premium.
The current rate of scaling compute isn't sustainable unless AI starts to dramatically accelerate economic growth. There is no guarantee that this rate of AI capex spending can continue after 2026. However, flat compute capex is still growing the compute stock for years. AI chips will still improve, and companies can research and train models even with a fixed amount of compute.
It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your LLMs are? In this Datadog guide [13], you'll learn how to monitor LLM workflows end-to-end, detect security risks, and deploy mitigation steps. You don't need to be on high alert if your system is reliable. Read the guide to see how
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.7-Max as a proprietary agent-foundation model that posts top scores on Terminal-Bench 2.0-Terminus, SWE-Pro, SciCode, MCP-Mark, GPQA Diamond, HMMT Feb 2026, and IMOAnswerBench, with consistent performance across Claude Code, OpenClaw, Qwen Code, and custom harnesses.
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) can help explore neural geometry by representing curved manifolds using several distinct methods, including shattering, compact capture, and dilution. The study reveals that each SAE feature only represents part of the whole manifold, necessitating the clustering of features to understand the overall structure. An unsupervised pipeline leveraging these findings could enhance our understanding of neural networks by reconstructing the internal geometric structures on their terms.
Google is aggressively integrating AI into its products to remain competitive while protecting its lucrative core businesses. The company leverages its scale, distribution, and financial resources to deploy AI like Gemini 3.5 Flash and features such as YouTube's "Ask YouTube." Despite challenges, Google aims to maintain market leadership by adapting its offerings swiftly without undermining its existing revenue streams.
OpenAI reported $5.7 billion in Q1 revenue, surpassing Anthropic. The high demand for AI inference chips has companies like Amazon, Google, and potentially Microsoft vying to supply custom solutions. Anthropic's rapid adoption by enterprises has exposed compute constraints, leading it to strike deals with multiple providers to secure capacity.
The unemployment-rate gap between entry-level workers and experienced workers has widened sharply post-pandemic, specifically in occupations exposed to AI substitution.
Figma launched a native design agent that lives directly on the canvas, giving teams deep access to their components, tokens, and design system without switching tools. It supports parallel prompting, bulk edits, and feedback processing — handling repetitive tasks while keeping designers in control of the craft. Currently rolling out in beta at no credit cost, it will be available to Full seat users on Professional, Organization, and Enterprise plans upon general availability.
Google Pomelli, an AI marketing tool from Google Labs built with DeepMind, now lets small businesses build a complete brand identity from scratch through a new agentic feature. Beyond its existing social media and ad creation capabilities, the update introduces brand books and a one-click website builder. Together, these tools allow businesses with no online presence to establish their brand, run social campaigns, and launch a professional site without expensive outside help.