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May 15, 2026

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Plus: IBM releases multilingual embedding models, Cerebras Systems raises $5.5B in IPO
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Daily AI Market Intelligence
Friday, May 15, 2026
2:45 PM ET · 2 min read
By the TensorMax editorial team  ·  Drawing from sources across the AI industry

Today's top story

model release

NVIDIA releases Vera Rubin platform with Groq 3 LPX and Vera Rubin NVL72 for agentic AI workloads

More from today

market event

Carta acquires Avantia, a UK-based AI-powered law firm, for an undisclosed amount

benchmark result

OpenAI's models have been involved in several deadly incidents, including a suicide and a mass shooting

benchmark result

Jiuzhang 4.0 completes Gaussian boson sampling task in 25 microseconds, outperforming the world's fastest supercomputer

other $2.9B

Samsung union strike expected to cost company over $2.9bn in direct semiconductor revenue

product launch

Anthropic's Mythos AI tool helped researchers find a macOS kernel exploit, which Apple is now reviewing

model release $20M

Anthropic releases /review-contract, a contract review skill for Claude Cowork

Catch up quick

  • Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1 billion in Series B funding
  • Cerebras raises funds through successful IPO, priced at $185 and closing 68% above at $311
  • Cerebras valuation reaches $66 billion after IPO
  • IBM releases two new multilingual embedding models: granite-embedding-97m-multilingual-r2 and granite-embedding-311m-multilingual-r2
  • The EU AI Act introduces transparency obligations for providers and deployers of certain AI systems, effective August 2026
  • The global BESS market is projected to rise from $50.81 billion in 2025 to $105.96 billion by the end of the decade
  • OpenAI sued by spouse of FSU shooting victim over use of ChatGPT to plan shooting spree
  • Kevin Warsh to become Federal Reserve Chair as Jerome Powell's chairmanship ends
  • The B2B customer base is shifting towards AI-native companies, with 75% of SaaStr's sponsor base turning over in 12 months
  • Cerebras Systems raises $5.5B in IPO
  • North Korea-linked hackers used AI to steal $600 million from DeFi protocols Drift Protocol and Kelp DAO in April
  • Honda absorbs $9 billion EV loss
  • Granite Embedding Multilingual R2 achieves state-of-the-art results on MTEB Multilingual Retrieval, outperforming other models in its class
  • Anthropic's research shows that more than half of blockchain exploits in 2025 could have been done autonomously using AI agents
  • Anthropic introduces Routines for Claude Code automation

Also on the desk

  • Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft is being deliberated by a California jury
  • Anthropic partners with FIS to push out Claude to the wider FSI market
  • SpaceX's IPO prospectus could drop as early as next week, according to sources
  • Cerebras Systems Inc. goes public with IPO, surging 68% on Nasdaq debut, reaching market cap of around $95 billion
  • Researchers demonstrate LLM-based persuasion can override guardrails in frontier LLMs, including Claude, Qwen, and Grok, to produce essays denying scientific consensus
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