AI Venture Funding & News — 2026-05-16

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• Intercom, now called Fin, launches an AI agent whose only job is managing another AI agent
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• How RecursiveMAS speeds up multi-agent inference by 2.4x and reduces token usage by 75%
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• Claude’s next enterprise battle is not models: it’s the agent control plane
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• Developers can now debug and evaluate AI agents locally with Raindrop's open source tool Workshop
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• Cerebras stock nearly doubles on day one as AI chipmaker hits $100 billion — what it means for AI infrastructure
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• Claude Code's '/goals' separates the agent that works from the one that decides it's done
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• AI IQ is here: a new site scores frontier AI models on the human IQ scale. The results are already dividing tech.
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• Anthropic reinstates OpenClaw and third-party agent usage on Claude subscriptions — with a catch
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• Anthropic finally beat OpenAI in business AI adoption — but 3 big threats could erase its lead
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• Frontier AI models don't just delete document content — they rewrite it, and the errors are nearly impossible to catch
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• Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
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• Turning AI cost spikes into strategic growth opportunities
• Ajay Patel, Apptio, an IBM company

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