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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
WeRide and Uber are making their first joint move into Europe with a commercial robotaxi pilot in the Region of Madrid, booked through the Uber app and operated with fleet partner AVOMO. It starts with safety operators later in 2026 and is meant to scale to hundreds of fully driverless cars.
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Elon Musk's rocket company is becoming an AI landlord. A SpaceX filing reveals Google has agreed to pay $920 million a month — roughly $29 billion through mid-2029 — for access to about 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs at the Colossus complex, the second nine-figure compute deal SpaceX has struck this spring.
TechCrunch
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A 269-page bipartisan discussion draft from Reps. Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan would preempt state laws regulating frontier AI development for three years while forcing the largest labs to publish safety frameworks, report incidents and submit to third-party audits.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada’s long-awaited national AI strategy in Toronto, committing more than $2.3 billion to compute, adoption and training while setting a target of 250,000 new AI jobs and $200 billion in added economic growth by 2031.
Prime Minister of Canada
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The world's highest-grossing law firm, on roughly $10.6B in annual revenue, will pour $500 million over four years into a proprietary AI platform — on-premise GPUs, ~180 technologists, and the option to fine-tune its own models. It is a build-not-buy bet that smaller rivals simply cannot match.
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President Trump signed an executive order on June 2 asking AI developers to voluntarily hand the federal government access to their most powerful models for up to 30 days before public release, so agencies can benchmark “advanced cyber capabilities.” The order explicitly bars any mandatory licensing or preclearance — a markedly lighter touch than the version pulled in May — and pairs the review with a new Treasury-run cybersecurity clearinghouse for critical infrastructure.
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An unnamed enterprise client ran up a roughly $500 million Claude bill in a single month, according to Axios — not through fraud or a bug, but by handing every employee uncapped access and never switching on a usage limit. Agentic workflows and large-context prompts quietly turned $500–$2,000-per-engineer habits into a nine-figure invoice, and it has become the year’s loudest cautionary tale about AI governance.
Axios
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On May 26, both Sam Altman and Dario Amodei softened their AI “jobs apocalypse” warnings. Altman told Commonwealth Bank’s CEO he was “pretty wrong” and “delighted to be wrong” that entry-level white-collar roles haven’t been wiped out, while Amodei recast his 50%-of-white-collar-jobs warning as automation that “expands” human work. The walk-back lands just as OpenAI and Anthropic head toward IPOs valued near $1 trillion each.
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Bloomberg pulled back the curtain on the DoD’s replacement search for Claude this week: a hand-picked group of 25 military "power users," a new platform called GenAI.mil that sits independent of Maven Smart System, and a six-month transition deadline for every contractor that built on Anthropic. Frontier models from OpenAI, Google and xAI are now being graded inside classified workflows that Claude used to own.
Bloomberg / The Star
Read more →A leaked recording captures Mark Zuckerberg telling staff Meta has been monitoring Gmail, GChat, Metamate, and VSCode to train AI — days before 8,000 layoff notices began landing.
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DeepSeek, Kimi, and Zhipu have gone from 1% to over 60% of OpenRouter's developer traffic in 18 months — and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says enterprises are now defaulting to the cheap open models and calling Claude or GPT only when they have to.
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OpenAI became a C2PA Conforming Generator and embedded Google DeepMind's SynthID watermark across ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API on May 20, alongside a public verification tool at openai.com/verify that checks uploads for either signal.
OpenAI
Read more →At COMPUTEX 2026, Nvidia unveiled Vera — its first CPU designed for AI agents rather than people. Built on 88 custom “Olympus” Arm cores with Spatial Multithreading for 176 threads, it claims more than 1.8x the agentic-sandbox throughput of x86 and roughly 63% over the Grace CPU it replaces. In debut third-party benchmarks it beats AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon — a direct strike at the one part of the data center Nvidia had always left to its rivals.
NVIDIA / Phoronix
Read more →A logic flaw in Meta’s AI support assistant let attackers add their own email to any Instagram account and reset the password — bypassing 2FA entirely. Victims included the Obama-era White House handle and the Space Force’s top enlisted leader.
TechCrunch
Read more →Google’s AI Search overhaul — AI Overviews plus the new AI Mode — now answers most queries in place, and publishers say it is an extinction-level event for the open web. Roughly 60% of searches end with zero clicks, global publisher traffic is down about a third, and some sites report drops near 90%. The result: antitrust suits, mass content-blocking, and a fight over whether a search engine that no longer sends traffic is still a fair deal.
Digiday / Press Gazette
Read more →Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told employees in Taipei that the company will invest roughly $150 billion a year in Taiwan, up from $10–15 billion just four or five years ago, calling the island “the epicentre of the AI transformation.” Nvidia will break ground on a new Taipei headquarters this year — targeted to open by 2030 with about 4,000 staff — to sit closer to chipmaker TSMC.
Reuters / CNBC
Read more →On May 27, Snowflake signed a five-year, $6 billion commitment to AWS centered on Graviton CPUs to power agentic and inference workloads — a sum nearly equal to the $7 billion Snowflake has booked through AWS Marketplace since 2012. It is the second multi-billion Graviton deal of 2026 after Meta and a clear signal that the AI bottleneck is shifting from training GPUs to inference CPUs.
GeekWire / Snowflake 8-K
Read more →Cognition, the startup behind autonomous software engineer Devin, raised more than $1 billion in a Series D at a $26 billion post-money valuation on May 27 — 2.5× its September 2025 mark. Lux Capital, General Catalyst and 8VC co-led the round; ARR has reached roughly $492 million and 89% of code committed by Cognition’s own engineers is now written by Devin.
Bloomberg / TechCrunch
Read more →NextEra Energy has agreed to acquire Dominion Energy in an all-stock deal worth about $67 billion, creating the world's largest regulated electric utility. The rationale is almost entirely about AI: the two companies project U.S. power demand will climb roughly 60% by 2045, driven by data-center hubs that now approach 5,000 megawatts apiece, and the combined firm is chasing a large-load pipeline north of 130 gigawatts.
NextEra Energy / CNBC
Read more →Bloomberg reported on May 26 that China has quietly extended the overseas-travel restrictions long applied to state researchers and nuclear scientists to engineers, founders and executives at private AI companies including Alibaba and DeepSeek. Selection is by "strategic value" — not seniority — and Beijing is openly framing the move as a counter to Meta's $100M signing bonuses and DeepSeek's Singapore relocation.
Bloomberg / Tom's Hardware
Read more →In a viral X post on May 25, Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham drew a line under the cold-outreach gold rush: he can spot AI-written founder emails by their "hard-hitting journalistic style," he stops reading the moment he notices, and the practice "feels like being lied to." A million views and a wave of reactions from Mike Isaac, Kenneth Stanley and Steven Sinofsky later, hand-written email is suddenly the new premium signal in a VC inbox.
Digg / BeInCrypto
Read more →In a Vatican first, Pope Leo XIV personally presented his inaugural encyclical on artificial intelligence on May 25, sharing the dais with Anthropic interpretability lead Christopher Olah and warning that AI risks absolving humans of moral responsibility — especially in war.
Vatican News / America Magazine / CNN
Read more →The 90-day voluntary frontier-model review was hours from signing when David Sacks, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg phoned Trump directly. Anthropic, OpenAI, and 79% of Republican voters had backed the order.
Axios
Read more →After malicious TanStack packages compromised two OpenAI laptops, the company is revoking every macOS, Windows, iOS and Android signing certificate — users have until June 12 to update.
SecurityWeek
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