Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
DoD finalizes AI agreements with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Nvidia, SpaceX, and Reflection AI for classified workloads — while labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk.
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FIS is rolling out an Anthropic-built Financial Crimes AI Agent that turns AML investigations from a days-long slog into minutes, starting with BMO and Amalgamated Bank.
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The Chinese autonomous-driving company partners with local operator Verne to run paid, app-bookable Gen-7 robotaxis across 90 square kilometers of central Zagreb, with Uber integration coming next.
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Read more →Roughly a thousand Google employees have signed an open letter opposing the company’s Pentagon Gemini deal. Unlike 2018’s Project Maven, leadership is digging in — and experts say staff leverage has materially eroded since then.
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The Defense Department signed procurement contracts with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Reflection to deploy AI in classified networks — leaving Anthropic on the outside after the company refused to allow Claude to be used for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
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Meta beat Q1 estimates with $56.3B in revenue, but raised its 2026 capex guidance to as much as $145 billion — and the market punished the stock for it.
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Musk testified in Oakland federal court on Tuesday, seeking $130 billion in damages and the ouster of Sam Altman, in a case that could decide whether OpenAI is forced back into a nonprofit.
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Meta inked agreements with Overview Energy for up to 1 GW of orbital solar capacity and with Noon Energy for up to 1 GW / 100 GWh of ultra-long-duration storage, betting on exotic energy sources to keep its AI data centers humming.
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Beijing’s NDRC ordered Meta and agentic-AI startup Manus to unwind their already-closed acquisition, dealing a major blow to Zuckerberg’s AI-agent ambitions and underscoring how AI deals are now entangled in U.S.-China rivalry.
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Google has agreed to let the U.S. Department of Defense use its AI on classified networks for essentially all lawful purposes — terms Anthropic refused over concerns about domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
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Meta will deploy hundreds of thousands of Amazon Graviton CPUs over at least three years, joining AWS's top five Graviton customers and broadening AI compute beyond Nvidia GPUs.
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New legislation targets foreign entities using distillation attacks and espionage to replicate US AI models, backed by a House Select Committee report detailing China's systematic campaign to acquire frontier AI capabilities.
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Deezer reports 75,000 AI-generated tracks flood its platform every day — 44% of all new music — yet 85% of the streams these tracks receive are flagged as fraudulent and demonetized.
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Global venture investment hit $300 billion in Q1 2026, with AI capturing 80% of all capital deployed. Four of the five largest venture rounds in history — OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo — all closed in the same 90-day window.
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Read more →A new Gartner survey finds organizations with high-performing AI invest up to four times more in data and analytics infrastructure, with top-quartile companies reporting 28% AI-driven productivity gains versus 6% for laggards.
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nEye.ai has secured $80 million in Series C funding to deploy optical circuit switching technology that allows AI data centers to flexibly pool GPU, CPU, and memory resources — addressing one of the biggest bottlenecks in modern AI infrastructure.
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A new PwC study of 1,200+ executives finds AI's financial returns are highly concentrated, with the top 20% of companies capturing nearly three-quarters of the value — and the gap is widening.
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Read more →The AI Alliance announced Project Tapestry to champion open and sovereign AI worldwide, appointing Turing Award winner Yann LeCun as its first Chief Science Advisor.
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Read more →Global venture investment hit $300 billion in Q1 2026, with AI companies claiming 80% of the total in the largest funding quarter ever recorded — driven by mega-rounds at Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo.
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Read more →NVIDIA unveiled the H200, a new AI chip that doubles performance for training and inference of large models.
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The European Union has approved the world's most comprehensive regulation on artificial intelligence.
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