Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Anthropic has secured the entire compute capacity of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis — over 300 megawatts and 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs — and the two companies are exploring multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute.
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Anthropic launches a 10-agent suite for banks and insurers, full Microsoft 365 integration, a Moody's data partnership, and Claude Opus 4.7 — with JPMorgan, Goldman, Citi, and Visa as launch customers.
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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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NVIDIA releases Ising, an open-source family of AI models that automates qubit calibration and runs real-time quantum error decoding 2.5x faster than the pyMatching standard.
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Anthropic has reportedly agreed to spend $200 billion with Google over five years on TPUs and cloud capacity, accounting for more than 40% of Google's disclosed revenue backlog and briefly pushing Alphabet past Nvidia in market value.
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OpenAI replaced GPT-5.3 Instant with GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's default model, delivering a 16-point jump on AIME 2025 math, sharper multimodal reasoning, and lower hallucination rates in legal, medical, and financial queries.
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SAP is buying Prior Labs and pledging more than €1B over four years to spin up a Freiburg-based frontier lab for Tabular Foundation Models, AI built for structured business data.
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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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Read more →Anthropic is lining up a $50B round at a roughly $900B valuation, more than doubling its February mark and leapfrogging OpenAI ahead of a possible October IPO.
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Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has signed a strategic partnership with OpenAI to deploy AI across drug discovery, clinical trials, manufacturing, and corporate operations, with full integration planned by the end of 2026.
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OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Clinicians, a free GPT-5.4-powered tool for verified U.S. physicians, nurse practitioners, PAs, and pharmacists, with safety scores that beat human doctors on a new HealthBench Professional benchmark.
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Read more →Private equity giant KKR has secured more than $10 billion to launch Helix Digital Infrastructure, a new full-stack AI infrastructure company led by former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky.
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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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Amazon Web Services puts OpenAI's frontier models, the Codex coding agent, and a new managed-agents service inside Bedrock — and ships an Amazon Quick desktop app for AI work outside the browser.
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OpenAI chair Bret Taylor's customer-experience agent startup banks $950M led by Tiger Global and GV, doubling its valuation in six months as it claims more than 40% of the Fortune 50.
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Read more →A new Cloudflare-Stripe protocol lets AI coding agents provision accounts, register domains, and ship apps to production autonomously, with a $100-per-month default spending cap per provider.
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Meta has bought robotics-AI startup Assured Robot Intelligence, founded by Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang, folding the team into Superintelligence Labs to build foundation models for humanoid machines.
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Microsoft's control plane for AI agents went GA on May 1 at $15 per user per month, adding multicloud discovery, shadow-AI detection on Windows endpoints, and runtime blocking of malicious agent behavior.
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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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Lilly is paying up to $2.25B in milestones for AI-designed recombinases that can insert entire genes at precise sites — a kilobase-scale alternative to CRISPR that Profluent’s CEO calls the “holy grail” of genetic medicine.
Pharmaceutical Technology
Read more →Toronto-based Cohere is absorbing Germany’s Aleph Alpha in a $20B combination backed by a $600M check from Schwarz Group, pitched as a sovereign AI alternative to U.S. hyperscalers and blessed by both governments.
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A four-month-old AI lab founded by ex-DeepMind, OpenAI, and Salesforce researchers is targeting fully self-improving frontier AI — and has already pulled in oversubscribed funding from Google's venture arm and Nvidia.
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Read more →A Sony research robot combining event-based vision and deep reinforcement learning has defeated elite and professional table tennis players in real matches, marking the first time a machine has reached human expert level in a fast, physical competitive sport.
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Read more →The DeepMind veteran behind AlphaGo and AlphaZero has emerged from stealth with the largest seed round in European history, backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, Nvidia, and Google to chase superintelligence through pure reinforcement learning.
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