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The latest developments, breakthroughs, and analysis from the world of artificial intelligence.
Mistral Acquires Emmi AI to Push Into Industrial AI
Mistral's acquisition of Austria's Emmi AI brings physics-aware models for industrial engineering — and signals Europe's AI consolidation phase.
OpenAI Codex Can Now Use Your Mac Even When It's Locked
OpenAI shipped a Codex update that lets the AI agent control Mac apps while the screen is locked, using an Apple authorization plug-in with safeguards.
Pope Leo XIV's First Encyclical Calls AI 'Moral Test' of the Age
Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica Humanitas with Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, warning AI risks fueling warfare, inequality, and erosion of human dignity.
xAI Launches Grok Skills: Persistent Expertise Across Every Chat
Grok Skills lets users teach Grok once and have it remembered across every chat, while shipping native document, deck, and spreadsheet generation.
Anthropic and Gates Foundation Commit $200M to AI for Health, Education
A four-year, $200M Anthropic-Gates Foundation partnership puts Claude behind global health, education, and economic mobility programs.
EY and Microsoft Commit $1B to Scale Enterprise AI to 400K
EY and Microsoft pledge over $1B over five years to scale Copilot from 150K to 400K users, citing a 15% productivity boost from initial rollout.
GitHub Copilot Moves to Usage-Based Billing on June 1, 2026
GitHub is replacing Copilot's flat-rate plans with metered AI Credits on June 1. Here's what changes for Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise users.
KPMG Deploys Claude to 276,000 Employees in Anthropic Alliance
KPMG embeds Claude into its Digital Gateway and rolls out Anthropic's AI to its entire 276K-person global workforce in a sweeping Big Four alliance.
Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs, Reassigns 7,000 to Four New AI Units
Meta is laying off 10% of staff while moving 7,000 employees into four new AI-native organizations as it ramps capex toward $145B.
Microsoft Copilot Studio Computer-Use Agents Hit General Availability
Microsoft's computer-use agents in Copilot Studio are now GA — enabling agents to click through any UI, no API required, with full Purview audit trails.
Jensen Huang Lands in Taiwan to Lock In Vera Rubin Production
Nvidia's CEO meets TSMC to secure capacity for Vera Rubin, calling it the largest product ramp in Taiwan's history ahead of his Computex keynote.
Anthropic Acquires Stainless: The SDK Engine Behind OpenAI, Google APIs
Anthropic buys Stainless — the auto-SDK startup powering OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare APIs — and shuts down hosted products to focus on Claude.
Gemini Adds Adobe, Canva, CapCut: A Creative Studio in a Chat Window
Google's Gemini app is pulling Adobe Firefly, Canva, and CapCut inside the chat — turning conversational AI into a full creative production hub.
Jack Clark at Oxford: 60% Chance of an Intelligence Explosion by 2028
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark's Oxford lecture warns recursive self-improvement is now an official Anthropic forecast, not theory.
Leaked Audio: Meta Trained AI on Employees Before Firing 8,000
A leaked Zuckerberg all-hands clip reveals Meta's MCI program tracked employee Gmail, GChat and VS Code activity to train AI — days before mass layoffs.
Google AI Overviews Hits 2.5B Users, AI Mode Crosses 1B in a Year
Google's AI Overviews now reaches 2.5B monthly users and AI Mode hit 1B in just 12 months — the fastest scale ramp in Search history.
Google Launches Antigravity 2.0: Agent-First Dev Platform at I/O
Google's Antigravity 2.0 ships a desktop app, CLI, SDK, and Managed Agents API to let devs orchestrate teams of coding agents on Gemini 3.5.
UPDATE: OpenAI Files Confidential S-1 With SEC, Eyes $1T IPO
OpenAI submitted its confidential S-1 to the SEC on Friday, kicking off a path toward a September 2026 listing at an $852B-$1T valuation.
Socket Hits $1B Valuation With $60M Series C for AI Code Security
Socket raised $60M Series C at a $1B valuation to protect enterprises from malicious open-source packages flooding in via AI coding tools.
Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic to Lead Pre-Training Acceleration
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic, starting a team focused on using Claude to speed up pre-training research itself.
Anthropic Eyes First Profit on $10.9B Q2 Revenue, Two Years Early
Anthropic told investors it expects $10.9B in Q2 revenue and a $559M operating profit — its first profitable quarter, arriving two years ahead of plan.
Anthropic Heads for First Profitable Quarter on $10.9B in Q2 Revenue
Anthropic is on track for its first operating profit — $559M on $10.9B Q2 revenue — two years ahead of internal projections.
Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash and Spark Agent at I/O 2026
Google's I/O 2026 keynote landed Gemini 3.5 Flash at $1.50/$9 per million tokens and Spark, a 24/7 personal agent that runs on Google Cloud VMs.
Hark Raises $700M Series A at $6B Valuation for Personal AI Hardware
Brett Adcock's stealth AI hardware startup Hark closed a $700M Series A at a $6B valuation, with Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Qualcomm all participating.