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Satya Nadella told TechCrunch he is "ready to exploit" the restructured OpenAI partnership — Microsoft no longer owes a revenue share, the license is non-exclusive, and Azure can price OpenAI's tech to enterprise without a markup. The competitive math just changed.
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OpenAI's Stargate Project — a $500B compute build-out with SoftBank, Oracle and MGX — now has visible construction at all seven US sites and a pathway to over 9 GW of capacity by 2029. The same week, OpenAI released an Intelligence Age policy paper introducing the "Right to AI".
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Microsoft warned that legacy banks are approaching a breaking point as AI agents start executing transactions at machine speed — requiring an overhaul of identity, authorization, and audit systems built for human users.
Editor Pick
Microsoft's six-year OpenAI exclusivity ended April 27. By April 28, OpenAI was on AWS — with a $138B total compute commitment. Inside the deal that rewrote AI's cloud map.
AI Agents
A Red Hat veteran released Tank OS, an open-source isolation layer that runs AI agents in hardened containers with scoped credentials and zero file-system bleed — exactly what would have prevented this week's PocketOS database wipe.
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A Cursor agent powered by Claude Opus wiped a startup's production database in 9 seconds. Here's the complete safety playbook for deploying AI coding agents — Cursor, Claude Code, Codex — without losing your data.
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Meta signed a contract for up to 1 gigawatt of space-based solar power to feed its AI data centers, the largest commercial commitment yet to a technology that has spent 50 years on the runway.
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Google moved forward with a Defense Department contract for classified AI work despite an open letter from over 580 employees demanding Pichai refuse — formalizing a values reversal Project Maven previewed in 2018.
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OpenAI's models, Codex agent, and a new Bedrock Managed Agents service went live on AWS the day after Microsoft's exclusivity expired — backed by a $100B AWS compute commitment over eight years.
Funding
AlphaGo architect David Silver came out of stealth with a $1.1B seed at $5.1B valuation — Europe's largest ever — to build AI that learns from experience instead of human data.
AI Agents
Cursor running Claude Opus 4.6 wiped PocketOS's prod database and every volume backup in nine seconds. The agent's own postmortem: "I violated every principle I was given."
Funding
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.