2026

Meta plans to power AI data centers with energy transmitted from space
Meta has reserved up to 1 GW of orbital solar energy from Overview Energy and expects to continuously power its AI data centers in the US st

Qualcomm shares rise on reports of possible OpenAI smartphone collaboration
Qualcomm shares rose following reports of possible collaboration with OpenAI on a smartphone, and the market saw this as a bet on a new phas

Meta introduced Sapiens2 — a unified computer vision model for pose, segmentation, and 3D
Meta Reality Labs released Sapiens2 — a family of vision models for human analysis that solves pose, segmentation, surface geometry, and 3D

China blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus ahead of US-China summit
Chinese authorities blocked Meta's deal to acquire AI startup Manus for $2 billion, heightening risks for China's AI market and adding tensi

China blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus
Chinese authorities halted Meta's planned acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI developer, for $2 billion, citing concerns that the sale would

Scikit-LLM Shows How to Embed Text Summarization Into a scikit-learn ML Pipeline
Scikit-LLM has proposed a scheme where long texts are first briefly summarized by a Hugging Face model, then immediately fed into a scikit-l

Microsoft and OpenAI cancel exclusivity: ChatGPT developer can now sell through rival clouds
Microsoft and OpenAI revisit a key agreement: ChatGPT developer will be able to sell its models not only through the partner, but also throu

Sereact raised $110M for AI robots that predict consequences of actions
German Sereact secured $110M in Series B funding to scale AI models for robots that analyze scenes and forecast action outcomes before execu

AI in Hiring Spirals Out of Control: Fake Job Postings and Filters Destroy the Labor Market
AI no longer just enables scammers to create fake job postings—it now interferes with real hiring, preventing strong candidates from reachin

China blocked Meta's purchase of Manus for $2 billion amid AI deal control
Beijing canceled Meta's deal to buy AI-agent developer Manus for $2 billion and demanded separate regulatory approval for US investments in

MIT Technology Review: OpenAI, Anthropic and the entire AI market are stuck between hype and profit
The AI industry already promises markets transformation and profit, but real data on agents, work tasks and employment still don't confirm t

Habr AI compared AI rewriters: many services proved to be ChatGPT wrappers
Habr AI analyzed 24 rewriting services and revealed that cheap SEO-synonymizers remain viable for uniqueness, while editorial quality today

Google DeepMind Opens World's First AI Campus in Seoul for Engineers and Research
Google DeepMind is launching the world's first AI campus in Seoul: the project will begin operations this year and become a hub for engineer

Google warns about attacks on corporate AI agents via web pages
Google reported that public websites increasingly hide hidden instructions in HTML that can redirect corporate AI agents, steal data, and di

Sadiq Khan may halt Scotland Yard's Palantir contract over London's values
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has indicated he may attempt to stop the police's contract with Palantir, concerned that taxpayer money would go to

Python: 10 Libraries for Building LLM Applications — from RAG to Agentic Systems
A collection of 10 Python libraries shows which layers are used today to build LLM applications: models, RAG, agentic workflows, production

Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman goes to court: Oakland decides OpenAI's future
A federal court case has begun in Oakland over Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman: the dispute concerns the company's mission

GitHub transitions Copilot to pay-per-use pricing from June 1 and changes access rules
Starting June 1, GitHub will transition Copilot to pay-per-use: the service will operate on credits, and once exhausted, access will stop—af

DeepSeek-V4-Pro Compressed 50x, Now Runs on a Free Kaggle T4
An experimental project shows that DeepSeek-V4-Pro's 1.6 trillion parameters can be compressed via SVD, sharded, and deployed on a free Kagg

Claude Code and Subagents Cut Legacy Project Rewrite from Three Months to One Week
The author compared two Go project refactorings of equal scale and demonstrated how Claude Code, subagents, and BDD reduced the work from th

Lina Bessonova Presented Russian Cognitive Architecture as Alternative to Transformers
Lina Bessonova proposes considering sovereign AI not as a local version of transformers, but as a new biomimetic architecture capable of ope

Google and Kaggle opened enrollment for a free 5-day AI agents course
Google and Kaggle are launching a free online intensive on AI agents again: from June 15-19, participants will explore vibe coding, API inte

The Musk-Altman Trial May Determine OpenAI's Future Corporate Structure
Jury selection began on April 27 in Oakland in Elon Musk's case against Sam Altman: the dispute over OpenAI's nonprofit mission and corporat

How Gemini drove the AI blog into mode collapse and forced a rebuild of the topic generator
In the AI blog's Friday column, the Gemini-based topic generator returned the same controversial AI question for a month straight, until the

Meta Reaches Deal with Overview Energy on Orbital Solar Power Supplies for Data Centers
Meta has reserved up to 1 GW of capacity from Overview Energy: the startup wants to transmit solar energy from satellites to Earth so that d

Databricks and Infosys: Why Data, Not Models, Blocks AI Deployment
Companies rush to launch AI but hit a bottleneck—not in models, but in fragmented data, weak access controls, and legacy systems unprepared

OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Audio — an open audio model that outperforms larger alternatives
OpenMOSS introduced MOSS-Audio — an open model that understands speech, music, and ambient sounds in a single architecture and outperforms s

OpenAI and Microsoft End Mutual Exclusivity on Models, Opening Path to New Deals
OpenAI and Microsoft have abandoned mutual exclusivity on models, China blocked Meta's Manus acquisition, and the dispute over OpenAI's miss

"First Form" Explained Why Corporate AI Agents Need an Agent Loop
According to "First Form," corporate AI agents cannot rely on a single tool call. They need a cycle of planning, verification, step correcti

OpenAI Embeddings and RL: How to Build an Agent with Long-Term Memory for Accurate Answers
The tutorial shows how to train an RL agent to select relevant records from long-term memory so that an LLM answers questions about saved fa

OpenAI prepares AI smartphone: chips to be created by MediaTek and Qualcomm, assembly to be handled by Luxshare
OpenAI has begun developing its own AI smartphone: MediaTek and Qualcomm are responsible for the mobile chip, assembly will be entrusted to

Russian companies are shifting to systematic security for AI agents instead of point checks
Russian businesses are increasingly deploying LLMs and coding agents, so their security should be built not through analyzing each new tool,

GPT-5.2 achieved top results on Tokyo and Kyoto University entrance exams
According to LifePrompt, GPT-5.2 in reasoning mode solved Tokyo and Kyoto University entrance exam tasks better than this year's applicants,

Nvidia-linked data center seeks $4.54B in high-yield bond market
A structure affiliated with Tract Capital and Nvidia's future tenant seeks $4.54B in high-yield bonds to complete a 200-megawatt AI data cen

Nvidia Finds Itself in Awkward Position Over SpaceX's $60 Billion Cursor Deal
The SpaceX-Cursor deal puts Nvidia in a conflicted position: as an investor in the startup, it has also made it a critical tool for thousand

DeepSeek, Qwen, and Moonshot intensify pressure on Silicon Valley with affordable models
Chinese models DeepSeek, Qwen, and Moonshot have nearly matched US leaders in quality, but cost less, offer more flexible customization, and

Elon Musk and Sam Altman Head to Court: Case Could Reshape OpenAI's Structure
Proceedings between Elon Musk and Sam Altman begin in Oakland: the court must decide whether OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit mission for grow

SpaceX Prepares Own GPUs for AI, Targets Nvidia and AMD Market
SpaceX revealed plans to develop its own AI GPUs, seeking to reduce dependence on external chip suppliers and support the Terafab project am

David Silver's Startup Raises $1.1B for AI Without Human Data
British lab Ineffable Intelligence, founded by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, raised $1.1B to develop AI capable of learning witho

Koda Showed How It Trained Next Edit Suggestions Model for Code Edit Prediction
Koda described how it built a Next Edit Suggestions model that predicts not the next token, but the next code change based on the history of

OpenAI and Microsoft revise partnership: Azure keeps priority, without exclusivity
OpenAI and Microsoft have updated their long-term alliance: Azure remains the primary cloud, Microsoft's license becomes non-exclusive, and

AMI Labs Bets on World Models Beyond LLM and Sees Path to Products Through VLA
AMI Labs proposes building AI not around text, but around predicting the physical world: through latent representations, JEPA approach, and

Elon Musk Promotes Investigation into Sam Altman on X Amid OpenAI Lawsuit
As the OpenAI lawsuit in Oakland began, Elon Musk intensified pressure on the company by sharing a New Yorker article about Sam Altman on X,

Softline Values "Software Factory" at 12 Billion Rubles Ahead of AI-Focused IPO
Softline readies Software Factory IPO: placement price set at 25 rubles per share, business valuation at 12 billion rubles, with AI-driven d

Google Employees Demand Sundar Pichai Ban Secret Military AI Use
More than 600 Google employees, including DeepMind specialists and executives, demanded that Sundar Pichai prevent the use of the company's

OpenAI Receives FedRAMP Moderate Authorization for ChatGPT Enterprise and API Platform
OpenAI granted federal US agencies access to ChatGPT Enterprise and API Platform under FedRAMP Moderate, simplifying secure AI implementatio

China blocked Meta's purchase of Manus for $2 billion and cooled the AI market
Beijing blocked Meta's deal to acquire Chinese AI startup Manus for $2 billion, intensifying industry concerns and showing that major AI acq

Canonical to Add AI Capabilities to Ubuntu for Accessibility and New Workflow Scenarios
Canonical plans to embed AI in Ubuntu: from improved speech recognition and synthesis to new agentic scenarios that should enhance the opera

Sequoia and Nvidia invest in David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1B valuation
David Silver, former DeepMind leader, raises $1.1B in bet against LLM: company aims to build "super-learning" AI through reinforcement learn

How Hugging Face Builds Scalable Web Apps with OpenAI Privacy Filter
Hugging Face demonstrated three scenarios for OpenAI Privacy Filter: document reading with PII highlighting, image anonymization, and secure

OpenAI Outpaces Google: ChatGPT Images 2.0 Wins Test Against Gemini Nano Banana
In nine practical image generation tests, ChatGPT Images 2.0 outperformed Gemini Nano Banana due to superior text handling, frame structure,

Anthropic: Claude Mythos Preview Finds Thousands of Critical Code Vulnerabilities
Anthropic claims that Claude Mythos Preview has discovered thousands of dangerous vulnerabilities in software and browsers, but alongside it

Large Companies Are Creating a CAIO Position: Why Business Needs an AI Director by 2030
Big business is preparing to establish AI as a separate area of responsibility: by 2030, a CAIO role responsible for strategy, risks, and bu

METR Explains How AI Approaches Autonomous Execution of Complex Tasks for Nearly 12 Hours
On Bloomberg Tech, METR representatives explained how AI autonomy is measured and why the nearly 12-hour metric for Claude Opus 4.6 matters

Microsoft and OpenAI end exclusivity: OpenAI can now sell AI through AWS and other clouds
Microsoft and OpenAI rewrote key partnership terms: Azure remains the primary cloud, but OpenAI can now sell its models and services through

Qualcomm and OpenAI may jointly develop an AI-powered smartphone
Qualcomm's stock rose following an analyst's assessment of a potential joint smartphone development with OpenAI — the market saw an opportun

Sequoia and Nvidia value ex-DeepMind researcher's startup at $5.1 billion
A new AI startup by a former Google DeepMind researcher has raised $1.1 billion at a $5.1 billion valuation, with Sequoia and Nvidia among t

Microsoft Waives Exclusive License to OpenAI Technologies But Retains Stake
Microsoft and OpenAI renegotiated partnership terms: the exclusive license is gone, but Microsoft retained its stake, cloud status, and acce

Axios: Artificial intelligence already costs more than staff at some companies
Companies increasingly discover that implementing artificial intelligence costs no less than—and sometimes more than—payroll: AI models, clo

Taylor Swift Files Trademark Applications for Voice and Image Due to AI Risks
Taylor Swift's company filed three trademark applications, including vocal phrases and image protection, to strengthen legal defense against