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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.