The 10 most important AI stories of May 13, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
Anthropic PBC is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, according to people familiar with the matter, setting the stage for what could be its largest funding round yet. The Claude maker would then be valued at more than $900 billion. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)
Google and its AI lab DeepMind are bearing down OpenAI and Anthropic
French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is in discussions with European banks about deploying its answer to Anthropic PBC's Mythos, the limited-access AI model that can uncover cybersecurity vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed and scale.
Cerebras raised $5.55 billion in its IPO, and with the chipmaker's offering, investors are gearing up for some even bigger AI deals later this year.
Isomorphic, which formed as an Alphabet company in 2021, has a massive cash horde, but it's tight-lipped on what drugs it might bring to the clinic.
Top Microsoft executives testified in Musk v. Altman this week, spelling out concerns they had in the early days of the partnership with OpenAI.
People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there's apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was "desperate for help": for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from "strangers" who were "looking for a lawyer, a product designer, a…
Months-old Ineffable Intelligence announced a record $1.1 billion seed round in April.
US business leaders including Apple Inc.'s Tim Cook and Tesla Inc.'s Elon Musk on Trump's first overseas trip since waging war in the Middle East — a 36-hour visit with Xi Jinping that's expected to encompass the war, tariffs and the self-ruled island of Taiwan. The list of attendees until Tuesday had not included Huang, whose company makes the chips at the heart of the AI boom and has been pushing for greater leeway in a market he's identified as a $50 billion opportunity. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow reports.
Russell Brandom /TechCrunch:Adaption, co-founded by ex-Cohere VP of AI research Sara Hooker, unveils AutoScientist, which can automate the research loop behind model training and alignment— For years, AI researchers have anticipated the moment when AI systems will be able to improve themselves better than humans could.
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