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Anthropic releases Claude 4.5 with major upgrades, Meta doubles down on open source AI, and a new report shows AI jobs are shifting. Here is what matters this week.
Sakana AI launches Fugu model, data centers face growing opposition, and tech workers organize against Silicon Valley's AI push. Here is what matters this week.
Anthropic files for a record IPO at $965B, G7 leaders meet with AI CEOs in France, and Microsoft launches 7 new models to break free from OpenAI. Here is everything you need to know.
Apple's WWDC 2026 is days away and AI is the main event. DeepSeek V4.1's complete specs leaked ahead of launch. The Pentagon just formalized its AI rules of engagement. Here is what you need to know.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7 with 2 million token context window. Microsoft Recall finally ships worldwide. Plus the biggest AI stories this week.
DeepMind's AlphaFold 4 can now model how proteins interact with each other. China's first AI agent regulations just went live across 19 industries. OpenAI is reportedly preparing for a 2027 public offering. Three developments that matter.
Midjourney V7 can now keep a character's face identical across 100 images. The EU quietly pushed its most aggressive AI deadlines to 2027. China has labeled over 150 billion AI-generated images. Here is what changed this week and what it means.
Perplexity just walked away from advertising entirely. Google Gemini's AI traffic surged 315% year over year while ChatGPT declined. Hugging Face Optimum is making local inference 40% faster with three lines of code. Here is what happened this weekend and why it matters for how you use AI.
xAI just dropped $20B on the world's largest GPU cluster. California quietly replaced SB-1047 with something more practical. DeepSeek V4.1 is weeks away with a $73B funding round behind it. Here is what changed and why it matters.
Google I/O 2026 just delivered the biggest search overhaul in 25 years. Anthropic booked SpaceX's entire Colossus supercluster. Cerebras popped 68% on its IPO. Here's what it all means for how we find information, who controls AI compute, and where the money is going.
Anthropic nearly pulled Claude Code from its $20 Pro plan in April, OpenAI fired back with free Codex months, and Microsoft is yanking internal licenses. The AI coding tool pricing war is just getting started.
NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra GPUs have a 3.6 million unit backlog from cloud providers. Demand is doubling year over year. AI inference costs are supposed to drop. The supply chain says not so fast.
Closing arguments wrapped May 14 in the Musk v. Altman trial. The nine-person jury began deliberating May 18. Here's everything that happened in the courtroom, what the jury has to decide, and what's actually at stake for the AI industry.
Google updated its spam policy on May 16 to ban AI poisoning, the practice of manipulating AI model outputs through adversarial prompts. Sites caught doing it face 180-day removal from AI Overviews.
Malta's government struck a world-first deal with OpenAI to provide free ChatGPT Plus to all 570,000 citizens. The catch: everyone must complete an AI literacy course first.
Greg Brockman takes over product strategy as OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex into a unified agent platform. The company also quietly acquired voice-cloning startup Weights.gg and shut down Sora.
The BLS finally separated AI-related job displacement from general tech layoffs. The data: 47,000 jobs displaced by AI in Q1 2026, but 89,000 new AI-adjacent roles created. The shift is real. It's also weirdly specific.
Google just showed Remy at I/O, an always-on AI agent that controls your apps, manages your inbox, and takes actions while you sleep. It's either the most useful AI product yet or the most invasive.
Meta released Llama 4 under Apache 2.0 license with no commercial restrictions. At 405B parameters, it matches GPT-5.5 on most benchmarks. The proprietary AI model business just got a lot harder to justify.
Claude Managed Agents now review past sessions, identify patterns, and refine their own performance over time. Early users report dramatically higher task completion rates without any prompt engineering.
China's new AI agent guidelines create a three-tier risk system across 19 industries. Agents in healthcare, finance, and transportation face the strictest controls, and can't act beyond what users explicitly authorize.
The UK's AI Safety Institute confirms Claude Mythos completed a 32-step cyber attack from reconnaissance to full domain takeover. Frontier AI offense capability is now doubling every four months.
The European Court of Justice confirmed that platforms using news content to train or inform AI systems must pay publishers 'fair compensation.' The ruling reshapes the economics of AI training data across the EU.
Timothy Gowers, one of the world's top mathematicians, reports that OpenAI's latest model produced original research-grade mathematics in about 60 minutes. The math community is taking it seriously, with caveats.
DeepSeek's V4.1 now has a confirmed June window, a $7.3 billion funding round, and three major upgrades: full multimodal, native MCP support, and an enterprise toolchain. The company is pivoting hard from research darling to paid platform.
GitLab's 'Act 2' restructuring means fewer countries, flatter management, and a bet that AI agents will write most code by 2028. The stock dropped 8.2%.
Microsoft's CEO testified that Musk never contacted him about concerns over OpenAI's direction. The testimony undercuts Musk's central claim in the case.
The Microsoft-OpenAI deal just got rewired. A $380B revenue-sharing cap replaces what could have been a $1.35 trillion obligation, freeing OpenAI for a 2027 IPO.
The Pentagon's CDAO gave Scale AI a $500M contract, 5x the previous deal. Meanwhile, Anthropic was excluded after rejecting military terms. The military AI vendor market is splitting.
Anthropic's revenue exploded from $9B to $30B in months as it secured a $40B Google investment and leased SpaceX compute. The AI infrastructure buildout has no precedent.
Cerebras Systems priced at $185, opened at $350, closed its first day at $311, then slid 10% on day two. The AI chip maker's debut was the biggest U.S. tech IPO since Uber. Here's what the numbers say about the AI hardware bet.
For the first time, criminals used a large language model to discover and exploit an unknown security vulnerability. Google's threat intelligence team says the era of AI-driven cyber attacks is here.
The AI industry is going through growing pains. Elon Musk escalated his legal war with Sam Altman, Meta cut 10% of its workforce, and China blocked Meta's Manus acquisition.
The AI industry has shifted from chatbots to autonomous agents that take actions, not just answer questions. Three-quarters of Fortune 500 companies have deployed at least one. Here's what that actually looks like on the ground.
For the first time, Apple will allow third-party AI models as the default assistant on iPhones. Users will be able to choose Gemini or Claude instead of Siri.
Four Chinese labs released near-frontier open-weights coding models in under two weeks, at a fraction of the cost of Western alternatives. The AI race just became genuinely multipolar.
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