Tuesday, 5 May 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Tuesday, 5 May 2026.
Top Stories
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
We’ve raised Claude's usage limits and agreed a new compute partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase our capacity in the near term.
Read moreIntroducing Claude Opus 4.7
Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available. Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks.
Read moreIntroducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs
Today, we’re launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.
Read moreClaude is a space to think | Anthropic
We’ve made a choice: Claude will remain ad-free. We explain why advertising incentives are incompatible with a genuinely helpful AI assistant, and how we plan to expand access without compromising user trust.
Read moreAgents for financial services
We're releasing ten new Cowork and Claude Code plugins, integrations with the Microsoft 365 suite, new connectors, and an MCP app for financial services and insurance organizations.
Read moreIndustry
Elon doubled limits
Free ChatGPT got instantly better.
Read moreCodex is gaining steam
but I wish it had this
Read moreA blueprint for using AI to strengthen democracy
Every few centuries, changes in how information moves reshape how societies govern themselves. The printing press spread vernacular literacy, helping give rise to the Reformation and, eventually, representative government. The telegraph made it possible to administer vast nations like the US, acc...
Read moreWeek one of the Musk v. Altman trial: What it was like in the room
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing OpenAI, alleging...
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Introducing Muse Spark: Scaling Towards Personal Superintelligence
Today, we’re excited to introduce Muse Spark, the first in the Muse family of models developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs. Muse Spark is a natively multimodal reasoning model with support for tool-use, visual chain of thought, and multi-agent orchestration.
Read moreSAM 3.1: Faster and More Accessible Real-Time Video Detection and Tracking With Multiplexing and Global Reasoning
Update March 27, 2026:
Read moreScaling How We Build and Test Our Most Advanced AI
As we build more capable, personalized AI, reliability, security, and user protections are more important than ever.
Read moreHow Alta Daily Uses Meta’s Segment Anything to Reimagine the Digital Closet
Most people wear only an estimated 20% of the clothes in their closets, but the rest isn’t useless. It's untapped potential: combinations that never quite come together because remembering what you own, let alone imagining how it all fits together, is harder than it sounds.
Read moreFour MTIA Chips in Two Years: Scaling AI Experiences for Billions
Serving a wide range of AI models on a global scale, while maintaining the lowest possible costs, is one of the most demanding infrastructure challenges...
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