China's NDRC ordered Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition of Chinese-founded AI agent startup Manus on Monday after a months-long probe. Beijing previously banned co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country during the investigation.
Ex-DeepMind RL chief David Silver's London startup Ineffable Intelligence raised $1.1B at a $5.1B valuation Monday. Sequoia and Lightspeed co-led; Nvidia, DST, Index, Google, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund joined Europe's largest seed round ever.
Gemini opened its trading APIs to AI agents Monday via Anthropic's MCP open standard, letting Claude and ChatGPT autonomously place trades, monitor markets, and manage risk. Gemini calls it the first agentic trading tool through a regulated US exchange.
More than 580 Google staff — including 20+ directors and senior DeepMind researchers — sent CEO Sundar Pichai a letter Monday. They demand Google refuse classified Pentagon AI work that would put Google models on air-gapped military networks.
xAI and Colorado AG Phil Weiser jointly asked the federal court to suspend all deadlines in xAI's challenge to SB24-205, halting enforcement while Gov. Polis's draft replacement bill moves through committee. DOJ joined xAI's side last week.
Fed economists Leland Crane and Paul Soto find US programmer job growth dropped roughly 50% after ChatGPT's Nov 2022 launch, with the gap widening from mid-2024. They estimate ~500,000 developer jobs that would otherwise have existed never materialized.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise and API platform reached FedRAMP Moderate authorization, clearing the bar for adoption across US federal agencies. 90,000+ government users and 18M+ messages were already on ChatGPT pre-Moderate; FedRAMP 20x Moderate is the next target.
Google scanned 2–3B pages a month and saw a 32% surge in indirect prompt-injection attacks Nov 2025–Feb 2026. Real payloads include fully specified PayPal transfers planted in invisible HTML, designed for AI agents with payment access.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says OpenAI is co-developing a custom smartphone chip with Qualcomm and MediaTek, targeting 300–400M units annually by 2028 with Luxshare on system co-design and manufacturing. Qualcomm shares jumped as much as 12% on the report.
OpenAI and Microsoft tore up their original partnership Monday — exclusivity gone, the AGI revenue clause killed, multicloud unlocked. OpenAI keeps a $250B Azure spend commit through 2030; Microsoft retains an IP license through 2032 and a capped revenue share.
Coachella worked with Google DeepMind on three internal AI prototypes — a 3D show experience, a stage-design tool, and a mobile game — all built on the Project Genie world-model platform. Aimed at lowering the production-budget floor for smaller artists.
Sam Altman published OpenAI's five guiding principles for AGI on April 26: Democratization, Empowerment, Collaboration, Safety, and Adaptability. Pitched as a public commitment that key decisions about AI shouldn't sit only inside AI labs.