DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, May 15, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, May 15, 2026Today on the brief: Cisco rides an AI supercycle to record quarterly revenue while cutting nearly four thousand jobs and lifting its FY2026 AI infrastructure order target to nine billion dollars. Anthropic plants a two hundred million dollar flag with the Gates Foundation to bring Claude to global health, agriculture, and education programs. Anthropic also rolls out Claude for Small Business, integrating with QuickBooks, HubSpot, Canva, and Google Workspace. OpenAI brings its Codex coding agent to phones inside the ChatGPT app on iOS and Android. Recursive Superintelligence emerges from stealth with six hundred and fifty million dollars led by Richard Socher, Peter Norvig, and Tim Shi to build self improving AI. The Allen Institute releases MolmoAct 2, an open source robotics foundation model. GridCARE closes a sixty four million Series A for AI power infrastructure. Iceotope raises twenty six million for precision liquid cooling. Nectar Social raises thirty million for agentic commerce. Wirestock raises twenty three million for multimodal training data. PwC deploys Claude across its global consulting practice. And Optura raises eleven million for healthcare AI ROI measurement.DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning.Send us fan mail#AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #AIFunding #AIInfrastructure #DXToday