AI News for May 28, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Cognition raises $1B at $26B valuation, doubling in 8 months: Cognition, maker of AI software engineer Devin, raised more than $1B at a $25B pre-money valuation, more than doubling its $10.2B mark from September 2025.
[NEWS] Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1B Series B to 'turbocharge' AI drug discovery: Demis Hassabis's Isomorphic Labs closed a $2.1B Series B led by Thrive Capital, money the Google DeepMind cofounder says will go to scaling compute, generating data, and expanding drug discovery programs.
[TOOLS] Robinhood opens trading and credit cards to AI agents via MCP: Robinhood launched agentic trading in beta, letting customers connect AI agents like Claude or Cursor to a separate investment account through Anthropic's Model Context Protocol.
[NEWS] Nvidia commits $150B/year to Taiwan, 4x expansion of local workforce: Jensen Huang said Nvidia now spends up to $150B annually on Taiwanese suppliers like TSMC, up from $10-15B three or four years ago.
[NEWS] YouTube will auto-label AI videos starting this month: YouTube is rolling out automatic detection of photorealistic AI content, applying labels even when creators don't disclose AI use.
[NEWS] Meta launches paid AI chatbot subscriptions at $7.99 and $19.99: Meta began testing consumer subscriptions for Meta AI at $7.99 and $19.99 a month, granting heavy users more capacity and complex request quotas while the free tier remains available with image and video generation limits.
[RESEARCH] MiniMax teases M3 with sparse attention, 15.6x faster long-context decoding: MiniMax previewed its upcoming M3 model series, claiming a custom sub-quadratic sparse attention framework that delivers up to 15.6x faster decoding at million-token contexts.
[NEWS] China upgrades millions of old cameras with AI vision and language models: Chinese authorities are retrofitting nationwide surveillance cameras with computer vision and language models from Hikvision and Huawei, shifting the system from reactive face matching to large-scale behavioral monitoring and text-based video search.
[TOOLS] ElevenLabs Music v2 switches genres mid-track without losing coherence: ElevenLabs released Music v2, an upgraded music generation model that handles opera-to-metal transitions, fast rap, and embedded sound effects within a single track.
[OPINION] Salesforce engineering headcount flat for two years as AI codes more: Marc Benioff said Salesforce engineering has "been mostly flat" at around 15,000 for two years, attributing the freeze to new coding agents with "dramatic capabilities." Headcount growth is now concentrated in sales, where AI agents fall short, while support roles continue to shrink (4,000 cut last September).

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