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SpaceX and xAI will supply compute infrastructure for Anthropic's Claude models in an unexpected cross-industry alliance — signaling that the race for AI capacity is now forcing rivals to set aside competitive tensions and share the hardware stack that determines who wins the intelligence era.
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Anthropic has signed SpaceX to supply the full compute capacity of the Colossus 1 data center — a deal that lands weeks before Anthropic's expected June IPO and signals the AI lab is racing to lock in infrastructure muscle before public markets weigh in on its $61.5B valuation.
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PayPal CEO Alex Chriss told Q1 2026 investors the company is accelerating AI adoption as the primary driver of a $1.5B+ gross cost-savings program over 2-3 years, alongside a structural shift to three business units and a 20% workforce reduction. The company is moving to cloud-native architecture...
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Altara raised $7 million in a seed round led by Greylock to build AI agents for physical sciences R&D — semiconductors, batteries, and advanced materials. The company's agents condense weeks of manual data triaging into minutes, targeting failure analysis and experimental design at facilities whe...
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IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) is acquiring Mirantis, the Kubernetes-native cloud infrastructure firm with 1,500+ enterprise customers and NVIDIA AI Cloud Ready ISV status, in a $625 million all-stock deal — completing its transformation from Bitcoin miner to full-stack AI cloud platform.
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Speaking alongside JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that its Mythos AI model has uncovered nearly 300 Firefox vulnerabilities and tens of thousands more in private — and that institutions have only 6 to 12 months to patch them before adversarial AI systems close the sam...
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Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro's administration filed a lawsuit on May 5 against Character Technologies Inc., seeking to bar its AI bots from posing as licensed medical professionals. An undercover state investigation found a chatbot named 'Emilie' claimed to be a licensed psychiatrist, provided a...
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Apple plans to introduce 'Extensions' in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 this fall — letting users select third-party AI models from Google, Anthropic, and others to power Siri, Writing Tools, and Image Playground. A dedicated App Store section for AI apps will support discovery and switching.
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Google, Microsoft, and xAI have agreed to submit frontier AI models to the US Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation for pre-release evaluation — joining OpenAI and Anthropic, which have participated in the program since 2024. The move expands an informal safety review into ...
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SAP announced it will acquire Prior Labs, the 18-month-old Freiburg-based pioneer of Tabular Foundation Models, with over €1 billion committed over four years — the largest European AI research acquisition of 2026. Prior Labs' TabPFN model, published in Nature, sets the state of the art on struct...
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OpenAI quietly swapped ChatGPT's default model to GPT-5.5 Instant on May 5, citing a 52.5% reduction in hallucinations on high-stakes medical, legal, and financial queries. The update also introduces 'memory sources,' a control layer showing users which past context shaped each answer.
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Five institutions, five products, one blockchain, one day. On May 5, Cloudflare, Google Cloud, State Street, Western Union, SoFi, and MoonPay all chose Solana for AI agent payments — independently. Here is what each launched and why Solana won.