Anthropic Launches Managed Agents in Public Beta
Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents, a suite of composable APIs for building cloud-hosted agents at scale. Handles sandboxed code execution, state management, credential vaults, and scoped permissions out of the box. Early adopters include Notion, Asana, Rakuten, Sentry, and Vibecode.
Meta Debuts Muse Spark from New Superintelligence Labs
Meta released Muse Spark, the first model from Alexandr Wang's Meta Superintelligence Labs. The natively multimodal model supports visual chain-of-thought and multi-agent orchestration. Meta says AI capex will hit $115-135B in 2026, nearly double last year.
Anthropic Releases Advisor Strategy — Opus Supervises Sonnet for Less
Anthropic shipped the Advisor Strategy for the Messages API, pairing Opus 4.6 as an advisor to Sonnet or Haiku. Scores 2.7 percentage points higher on SWE-bench Multilingual than Sonnet alone while costing 11.9% less per task. A practical pattern for production agent deployments.
Anthropic Revenue Crosses $30B, Surpassing OpenAI for First Time
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate hit $30B, overtaking OpenAI's $25B for the first time. Over 1,000 enterprise customers now spend more than $1M/year on Claude, doubling from 500 in February. The company's growth rate is unprecedented in enterprise SaaS.
Google Releases Gemma 4 Under Apache 2.0 — Most Capable Open Model Family
Google shipped Gemma 4 in four sizes with native vision, audio, function calling, 256K context, and 140+ language support. The flagship 31B model scores 80% on LiveCodeBench and 89.2% on AIME 2026. Apache 2.0 license means zero restrictions for commercial use.
MiniMax Ships M2.7 — Open-Source Self-Evolving Agent Model
MiniMax released M2.7, hitting 56.22% on SWE-Pro and 57.0% on Terminal Bench 2. The model's three-component system (short-term memory, self-feedback, self-optimization) lets it improve over 24-hour windows. Medal rate of 66.6% matches Gemini-3.1, trailing only Claude Opus-4.6 (75.7%) and GPT-5.4 (71.2%).
Cursor Ships Remote Agent Control — Run Agents from Your Phone
Cursor launched remote AI agent control, letting developers kick off coding agents on any machine and monitor them from a phone or other device. Enables asynchronous workflows where agents run on remote dev boxes while you're away from your desk.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Unite Against Chinese Model Theft
The three major AI labs announced intelligence sharing through the Frontier Model Forum to combat Chinese companies stealing models via adversarial distillation. The joint effort marks the first coordinated defense against systematic model extraction.
Visa and Nevermined Enable AI Agent Card Payments
Visa partnered with Nevermined to let AI agents make autonomous card purchases within cardholder-defined policies, using Visa Intelligent Commerce and Coinbase's x402 protocol. Agents can now spend money on your behalf with configurable limits.
OpenAI Launches $100/Month Pro Tier with 5x Codex Usage
OpenAI introduced a Pro tier at $100/month offering 5x more Codex usage than Plus, with a limited-time 10x promotion through May 31. Aimed at power users and developers who've been hitting Plus limits on agent-heavy workflows.