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.
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.
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.
Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoed L.D. 307, which would have set the first statewide data center moratorium through November 2027, citing the bill's lack of an exemption for a locally supported project in Jay.
Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan argues crypto's always-on, programmable, identity-light design fits AI agents far better than legacy finance, with humans guiding the strategy and agents running the engine.
Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says AI agents need programmable money, with roughly $48M flowing through the x402 payments standard so far and about 95% of those transactions settling on Base.
Anthropic's Mythos model can chain small protocol weaknesses into autonomous, multi-step exploits, and CoinDesk reports both Coinbase and Binance have approached the lab to stress-test their stacks.
Anthropic ran a closed pilot called Project Deal where AI agents bought and sold from each other on behalf of 69 employees, settling 186 trades and over $4,000 in volume across four model setups.
Google committed up to $40 billion to Anthropic on April 24, with $10 billion in cash wired immediately at a $350 billion valuation and $30 billion more contingent on performance targets. The deal also locks in 5 gigawatts of TPU compute over five years.
Anthropic deployed automated detection, election-information banners and stress-tested usage-policy enforcement on Claude ahead of the 2026 US midterms — reporting 100% appropriate-response rates on Opus 4.7 against a 600-prompt benchmark and 95–96% political neutrality scores.