Ai Dispatch: Daily Trends And Innovations - May 6, 2025 Recraft, Watsonx Oci, Ai Surveillance, Eu Ai Act
In today's fast-evolving AI landscape, groundbreaking advancements and regulatory debates shape how businesses and governments harness artificial intelligence. From startups pushing the boundaries of image generation to major enterprises scaling agentic AI across hybrid clouds, and from the ethical dilemmas of social media surveillance to the geopolitical tug-of-war over AI regulations, May 6, 2025, is packed with pivotal developments. In this op-ed-style briefing, we analyze five key stories-Recraft's stealth image model, IBM and Oracle's expanded partnership for agentic AI, the U.S. government's unprecedented AI-driven social media monitoring, the EU's missed deadline on AI model guidelines amid U.S. lobbying, and the broader implications for the AI industry.
1. Recraft's "red_panda" Model Tops Benchmarks and Secures 30M Series BKey Developments:
San Francisco-based startup Recraft, led by CEO Anna Veronika Dorogush, announced a 30 million Series B round led by Accel, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Madrona.
Its codenamed "red_panda" image generation model outperformed OpenAI's DALL-E and Midjourney on the Artificial Analysis benchmark last year.
Recraft's focus: enabling brands to place logos and adhere to style guidelines without manual editing-positioning itself against both image-generation pioneers and design platforms like Canva.