Microsoft is ditching OpenAI and Anthropic AI models in favor of its own proprietary MAI models inside Excel and Outlook, completing tens of thousands of prompts weekly as the tech giant slashes costs and bets big on in-house artificial intelligence.
The US lifts export restrictions on Anthropic's Claude models, Google DeepMind partners with A24 in a landmark filmmaking-AI collaboration, and Tencent unleashes a massive 295-billion-parameter open-source model as US-China AI rivalry intensifies.
Chinese smart glasses startup Even Realities hits a $1 billion unicorn valuation after securing $150 million in Tencent-backed funding, with its privacy-focused G2 glasses challenging Meta's dominance in a market that surged 167% year-over-year in Q1 2026.
Broadcom shares surge over 6% after Apple extends their chip partnership through 2031, with Broadcom set to supply custom AI-focused ASIC chips across multiple Apple product generations, including advanced AI servers planned for 2027.
TeraWulf shares surge 13% after signing a landmark 20-year, $19 billion AI infrastructure lease with Anthropic at its Kentucky data campus, while also selling a major joint venture stake for $450 million to focus on wholly owned AI projects.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs SB 315 into law, making Illinois the latest state to legally require AI safety audits for companies earning $500 million or more, mandating public safety disclosures, third-party evaluations, and catastrophic risk assessments, with fines up to $3 million for repeat violations when the law takes …
Reddit's AI tools are now blocking 23 million spam views daily, cutting user exposure by 20%, while new research from Oxford and the University of Potsdam warns that the same large language models powering these defenses may be introducing subtle bias into social media content.
Nvidia's next-gen Kyber NVL144 rack system is delayed to 2028 due to manufacturing failures with a critical circuit board, leaving the AI chip giant without a large-scale solution for its Rubin Ultra chips and handing rivals AMD and Google a rare opening to challenge its dominance.
Tencent launches Hy3, a massive 295-billion-parameter open-weight AI model under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, eliminating regional restrictions that previously blocked enterprise deployments across the EU, UK, and South Korea, while boasting a dramatically reduced hallucination rate of 5.4%.
Anthropic rolls out spend alerts, cost analytics, and model defaults for Claude Enterprise as a 'tokenmaxxing' crisis sends AI costs spiraling out of control, with companies like Uber burning through entire annual AI budgets in just four months.