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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.
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Beijing's NDRC ordered Meta to unwind a $2B acquisition already signed, integrated, and announced. Combined with travel bans on Manus co-founders, the move sets new precedent for cross-border AI M&A and forces every Western acquirer to reprice Chinese-founded AI startup risk.
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Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5.5 — pricing, agent infrastructure, FedRAMP status, and verdict by use case. The 2026 enterprise buyer comparison with real benchmarks and cost calculators.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sam Altman publicly apologized to Tumbler Ridge after revealing OpenAI banned the alleged shooter's ChatGPT account in June 2025 over violent content but did not alert Canadian police until after the attack.
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A CUNY and King's College London study tested five frontier chatbots on prompts involving delusions, paranoia and suicidal ideation; xAI's Grok 4.1 Fast came out worst, while Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 Instant scored safest.