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Anthropic forms $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation \ Anthropic
https://www.anthropic.com/news/gates-foundation-partnership
Anthropic in a nutshell: Valuation: February 2026: $350B May 2026: $900B Almost 3x in just 3 months. ARR: End of 2025: $9B End of May 2026: $45B Almost 5x in 5 months. Holy. via FT
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2055222524774846576
The 10-year US Treasury just hit 4.568%, highest in 10 months. The 30-year is back above 5%. Inflation is re-accelerating, markets have fully priced out any Fed rate cut this year, and some are now betting on a hike. Meanwhile, the AI industry is running the largest debt
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2055293526125232332
76,940 packages over 61 hours 18 minutes The robots are averaging roughly 1 package every 2.9 seconds No breaks
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055534794667442361
Brett Adcock highlights transfer learning as the “”unfair advantage”” of humanoids, where a single NN transfers knowledge across diverse tasks. He cites how the success rate of a fridge-related task jumped from 60% to 90% after including non-fridge data in the data set.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2055355958117986396
Day 2 is Live: Watch humanoid robots Bob, Frank, and Gary running 24/7. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2054970993442169230
Figure AI Humanoids Autonomously Make a Bed in a New Video – Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/figure-ai-robots-humanoids-make-a-bed-video-2026-5
Figure is now entering Day 8 of the most boring video we’ve ever posted F.03 has been working fully autonomously, non-stop for a full week – and we’ve livestreamed the entire thing
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2057145678355460126
Figure just live-streamed 8 hours of fully autonomous, unsupervised work We just huddled internally – and guess what? We’re not stopping here 24/7 LIVESTREAM
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2054729581391962353
Figure just set a new standard in unedited humanoid demos. They completed 24 hours of autonomous work on a live stream, where three Figure 03 robots took turns processing delivery packages. At a rate of ~21 packages/minute, that is less than 3 seconds per package.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2054993551973589304
Figure launched yesterday aiming to hit 8 hours of autonomous work We’ve now crossed 30 hours of continuous operations with no downtime 🔥🔥🔥 We also welcomed Rose to the team – helping push us past 38,000 packages processed
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055075231002407417
Figure livestream is back for day 6! Aime got some well deserved sleep, while F.03 has sorted another 17,444 packages
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2056420115701448915
Livestream Day 4 has begun. We’ve been running F.03 humanoid robots 24/7 – fully autonomous, no breaks, and no downtime
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055695727985352722
Silicon Valley’s Latest Binge-Watch Is a Humanoid Warehouse Worker – Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/figure-ai-turned-a-humanoid-sorting-packages-must-see-tv-2026-5
The Internet can’t stop watching Figure AI’s humanoid robots handling packages – Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/the-internet-cant-stop-watching-figure-ais-humanoid-robots-handling-packages/
This week, Figure started an 8 hour livestream to demonstrate fully autonomous, nonstop work We’ve now crossed 50 hours of continuous operation with no downtime, sorting over 63,000 packages The robots are still running – we’re going until failure 🔥🔥🔥
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055376836218310926
We’re entering Day 7! We’ve been running close to a week 24/7 and fully autonomous We’ve sorted over 180,000 packages and have been running continuously, without failure, for 144 hours
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2056786783539692023
Gemini can now connect to even more apps, including @OpenTable, @Canva, and @Instacart. Whether you’re booking a table at a restaurant, creating a flyer, or ordering groceries, Gemini doesn’t just find info, it helps you take action seamlessly with connected apps.
https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/2057550225863246236
Meta’s layoffs starting this week underscore Zuckerberg’s AI reality
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/metas-layoffs-starting-this-week-underscore-zuckerbergs-ai-reality-.html
OpenAI barrels toward IPO that may happen in September | TechCrunch
SpaceX also disclosed exactly how much their deal with Anthropic is worth. They state that they have “”entered Cloud Services Agreements with Anthropic in May 2026 for capacity on COLOSSUS and COLOSSUS II at $1.25B/month through May 2029″” that’s ~$15B/year, and an ~$45B TCV over
https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2057218890288030110
We’re expanding our partnership with @SpaceX, and will be scaling up on GB200 capacity in Colossus 2 throughout June. Appreciate @elonmusk and the team helping us find good homes for the Claudes.
https://x.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375
Wow, Anthropic has agreed to pay @SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through May 2029 for AI compute capacity, with capacity ramping in May and June 2026 at a reduced fee. Huge deal
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2057208968741560744?s=20
Microsoft cancels Claude Code licenses, shifting developers to GitHub Copilot CLI — a move likely driven by financial motives | Windows Central
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-cancels-claude-code-licenses-shifting-developers-to-github-copilot-cli-a-move-likely-driven-by-financial-motives
Anthropic acquires Stainless \ Anthropic
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless
Anthropic acquires Stainless | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182281
Anthropic is acquiring @stainlessapi, an SDK and MCP server platform that has powered every Anthropic SDK since the earliest days of our API. Read more:
https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2056419620643541012
Anthropic’s New Consulting Venture Makes Its First Acquisition
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/anthropic-consulting-venture-makes-first-120000326.html
Anthropic Is in Talks to Use Microsoft’s AI Chips — The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-use-microsofts-ai-chips
Anthropic, Microsoft in talks about Maia AI chip deal
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/anthropic-microsoft-maia-200-ai-chip.html
AI’s Plummeting Prices Are a Software Story, Not a Hardware One
https://weightythoughts.com/p/ais-plummeting-prices-are-a-software
celebrating @scale_AI’s 10th birthday this month! I’m so proud of the team for building a $1B+ revenue juggernaut powering leading AI labs, the US Dept of War, and Fortune 500 enterprises.
https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2055015011928731830
Cerebras IPO and the Price of Its Custom-Everything Architecture
https://x.com/vikramskr/status/2054264737400328678?s=12
Congrats to @modal on the Series C! AGI will be written in python and run on Modal. Unreal execution from this team since the very beginning – we built our entire backend on them at @codegen and I’d do it again in a heartbeat.
https://x.com/mathemagic1an/status/2057534253790097788
Docusign Developer Center | eSignature APIs & Resources | Docusign
https://developers.docusign.com/
Exa Raises $250M Series C to Build the Search Engine for AIs | Exa Blog
https://exa.ai/blog/announcing-series-c
Hark announces $700 million fundraising round | Hark
https://hark.com/articles/hark-announces-usd700-million-fundraising-round
How to Land a Frontier Lab Job
https://vladfeinberg.com/2026/05/10/how-to-land-a-job-at-a-frontier-lab.html
It was very fun to hear Ron tell the stories of early Jane Street. Their first cluster was a pile of 6 Dell boxes in their office. And it was important to them that it be physically in their office so that if something went haywire, they could just physically unplug the
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2055427017932468728
The haves and have-nots of the AI gold rush | TechCrunch
Today we’re announcing our Series C funding: $355M at a $4.65B valuation, led by some great investors @generalcatalyst and @Redpoint. We’ve had insane growth in the last year, but we’re still very early. So proud of the team and what we have built so far!
https://x.com/bernhardsson/status/2057530320790995262
We’re honored to deepen our partnership with @modal and co-lead their $355M Series C! When @bernhardsson and @akshat_b started Modal in 2021, they had conviction that building a truly great cloud for AI meant rebuilding the entire stack from the ground up. Five years later, that
https://x.com/Redpoint/status/2057532087570166134
He said: AI will be 10 times more impactful than Industrial Revolution and 10 times faster. It will be a lot of change. We are talking about the next 1000 years of human flourishing if we do it right. It’s important to demonstrate the AI benefits, and that’s what they are
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2057179700573692345
How easily would it be for a future superintelligence to persuade humans to do its bidding? The most persuasive humans give us a lower bound. The best human politicians have been able to convince huge numbers of smart and shrewd people that they’re on their side, even if their
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2055047161247912399
*CEREBRAS SYSTEMS FILES FOR IPO *CEREBRAS SYSTEMS INC . SEEKS TO LIST ON NASDAQ UNDER ‘CBRS’ Cerebras financials for the last 2 years revealed: -2025 Revenue: $509M -2024 Revenue: $290M -2025 Net Income: $87.9M -2024 Net Income: ($485M) $CBRS is officially coming to the
https://x.com/negligible_cap/status/2045239088169828550?s=12
Exclusive: Intuit to cut 17% of global jobs to streamline operations, memo shows | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/intuit-cut-17-global-jobs-streamline-operations-memo-shows-2026-05-20/
Quantum computing: Hybrid systems will drive future – SiliconANGLE
https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/20/quantum-computing-researchers-industry-exascale-hpeworldquantumday/
We give you model choice, without infrastructure chaos”” — @MichaelDell, live from #DellTechWorld 🎤 Kimi K2.6, DeepSeek V4 Pro, GLM 5.1, MiniMax M2.7 & DeepSeek V4 Flash are now one click away on Dell Enterprise Hub, optimized for PowerEdge XE9780 with NVIDIA B300.
https://x.com/jeffboudier/status/2056436625522266265
One of the most important and under appreciated trends in the world right now. 1. 100s of billions of dollars will soon be available to solve big problems (making the world resilient to ASI, ending factory farming, etc). 2. The projects and organizations which will turn
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2056856368745726238
Chinese court awards compensation to sacked worker replaced by AI | China | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/13/china-court-awards-compensation-sacked-worker-replaced-by-ai
China moves AI brain implants from trials towards real-world use
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01468-x
AI compute and inference are increasingly $$$. How can we change the unit economics of AI to improve accessibility? It’s been fun working with @prlnet to release the first model endpoint that simultaneously generates tokens **and** a digital asset that can subsidize inference! 🪙
https://x.com/simran_s_arora/status/2055348155051569474
I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can’t name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I
https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
30,160 packages at 1450x speed
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2056908239724585085
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055737045734318307
Congrats to Aime!! He said his left forearm is basically broken 😂 Final scores: → F.03: 12,732 packages (2.83 seconds/package) → Aime: 12,924 packages (2.79 seconds/package) This is the last time a human will ever win
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2056211711859003466
Frank merch in the house!! p.s. robots are closing in on 30 hours of nonstop operations. Hopefully they don’t fail and keep going
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055022358130463184
Frank swag now in the mix! Coming soon: Bob, Rose, and Gary
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055431142879486356
I got to ask @adcock_brett a couple of questions on Royden’s livestream yesterday: – Data scarcity and compute constraint outlook – Pre-training vs. fine-tuning balance Brett believes generalization is the key, and Figure will be the first to solve it.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2055015657029386631
I huddled with the team. Tomorrow we’re putting a human head-to-head against the robots Let’s settle this once and for all
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055799286416412853
Limited Edition Figure Livestream Merch??
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055385560622174411
Merch store is now updated for Rose Limited quantity
https://t.co/DP7LDGLZkN We running 24/7, therefore $24.07 🦾
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055898637650305067
New Merch in the store: we added Human and Aime
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2056149674218979661
Robots right now
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2054958410735714615
See you at 10am!
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2056039463416221787
The Adcock household only watches one show
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055114061126471908
The internet has named the humanoid Jim! p.s. That human is David McCall – the head of design at Figure. He’s new here and has 31 followers – these are rookie numbers so give him a follow: @DMcCall_2
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055485612577448042
This is crazy – 2 hours away from 24 hours of continuous humanoid work! The robots have sorted over 28,000 packages so far Bob, Frank, and Gary are all healthy
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2054946098431881720
Tomorrow 10am PT: Man vs Machine
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055839308662358139
We got bored. Time for Man vs. Machine
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2056057736601669989
We just wrapped what began as an 8-hour challenge – and it ran for 200 hours without a failure Shoutout to the team for the hardcore engineering behind F.03 and the robust Helix models powering it
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2057651077928145235
We’re live for Day 3! Watch our humanoid robots running 24/7 with full autonomy. We will be running until robot failure
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055333318741385691
You asked, we delivered: Figure livestream Merch is now live Limited quantity, get one before they sell out
https://t.co/zXdUm8gYNa p.s. we run 24/7, they’re $24.07 😂
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2055407668098224234
Youtube comments have spoken: the robot names are Bob, Frank, and Gary P.S. only 23min away from our 8 hour goal !!!
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2054723705969029278
A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight @sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner I can’t wait to see what’s unlocked when you
https://x.com/bosmeny/status/2056914385814401238
some interesting numbers from the SpaceX IPO filing: musk stock conditions: > 302.1M performance-based Class B shares > vesting requires both market cap milestones ($1.065T to $6.565T) and SpaceX completing non-Earth data centers capable of 100 terawatts of compute per year
https://x.com/eliebakouch/status/2057222864332320999?s=12
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