Wednesday, 13 May 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Wednesday, 13 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 moreWho trusts Sam Altman?
"I believe I am an honest and trustworthy business person," Altman testified in federal court.
Read moreOrigin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders
Origin Lab will serve as a marketplace where AI labs can buy high-quality licensed data, and video-game companies can sell it.
Read moreAnthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners
For founders and investors, Anthropic's new offering signals that the AI platform wars are expanding downmarket and that the next major battleground for user acquisition isn't the Fortune 500; it's the 36 million small businesses that make up the backbone of the U.S. economy.
Read moreAmazon launches an AI shopping assistant for the search bar, powered by Alexa+
Alexa for Shopping offers a voice- and touch-enabled shopping experience across mobile, desktop, and Echo Show smart displays. Alexa for Shopping provides more personalized recommendations and automates the shopping experience across Amazon and other online retailers.
Read moreIntroducing the 6 stages at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — built for today’s tougher startup market
From October 13-15, TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature 200+ sessions across six stages, led by 250+ tech leaders shaping the industry today. Register now to save up to $410, plus 50% off a second pass.
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 moreIntroducing Claude for Small Business
We're launching Claude for Small Business, a package of connectors and ready-to-run workflows that put Claude inside the tools small businesses use every day.
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Read moreAltman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar
Very painful": Altman relives his Muskian reaction to losing control over OpenAI.
Read moreResearch & Products
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 moreAuto-Rubric as Reward: From Implicit Preferences to Explicit Multimodal Generative Criteria
arXiv:2605.08354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning multimodal generative models with human preferences demands reward signals that respect the compositional, multi-dimensional structure of human judgment. Prevailing RLHF approaches reduce this structure to scalar or pairwise labels, collaps...
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