Category: AI Tools & Platforms

onMay 15, 2026

Gmail Makes “Help Me Write” AI Feature Free for All Users—Google Shifts Productivity AI Strategy from Premium to Mass Market in January 2026

Google just handed 1.8 billion Gmail users a free AI writing assistant. Microsoft charges $30/month for the same capability—and that pricing…

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Artur Markus

onMay 8, 2026

Microsoft Creates CoreAI Platform and Tools Division on January 13—Jay Parikh Named EVP Reporting Directly to Nadella in Major AI Reorganization

Microsoft just handed the keys to its entire AI development stack to an executive who joined the company eight weeks ago. That’s either…

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Artur Markus

onMay 7, 2026

ChatGPT Tasks Launches in Beta on January 15, 2025—OpenAI Adds Scheduled Automation for Paid Subscribers with 10-Task Limit

ChatGPT no longer waits for your prompts. OpenAI just shipped scheduled automation—and immediately throttled it to 10 tasks per user.

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Artur Markus

onMay 2, 2026

Meta Processes 10 Million Business AI Conversations Per Week—Enterprise Messaging Platform Hits Production Scale Across Customer Service Applications

The pilot phase is over. Meta just disclosed the first hard production number in enterprise AI: 10 million business conversations processed…

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Artur Markus

onMay 1, 2026

LMArena Hits $1.7B Valuation Just 7 Months After Launch—AI Model Benchmarking Platform Raises $150M Series A With 60 Million Monthly Conversations

Two Berkeley roommates built a side project that became a $1.7 billion company in seven months. Their secret: they solved the problem every AI…

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Artur Markus

onApril 26, 2026

Zapier Agents Hit General Availability with Multi-Step Memory—All Five Major Workflow Platforms Ship Agent Builders in Single Quarter

Five competitors shipping the same feature within 90 days isn’t a product launch—it’s an industry admitting that rule-based…

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Artur Markus

onApril 21, 2026

Cursor Raises $2 Billion at $50 Billion Valuation—Fastest B2B Software Company to Hit $1 Billion ARR, Outpacing Slack, Zoom, and Snowflake

A three-year-old coding editor just became the fastest B2B software company to reach $1 billion ARR—beating Slack’s record by roughly…

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Artur Markus

onApril 19, 2026

Apiiro CLI Launches April 9 Turning AI Coding Assistants Into Security Engineers by Rewriting Developer Prompts in Real Time

Your AI coding assistant now has a shadow editor—one that rewrites your prompts before the AI model sees them, injecting security constraints…

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Artur Markus

onApril 8, 2026

Ricursive Intelligence Raises $300M Series A at $4B Valuation for AI-Driven Chip Design—Ex-DeepMind Founders Build Platform That Automates Semiconductor Architecture

Two researchers just raised more than most companies exit for—to build AI that designs the chips that run AI. This is either the most circular…

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Artur Markus

onApril 7, 2026

FLORA Launches FAUNA on April 3: $52M-Backed AI Creative Agent Integrates 50+ Models on Node-Based Canvas to Combat Content Homogenization

Netflix is paying $16/month for an AI tool designed to make creative work slower. That sentence should break your brain—until you understand…

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