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Trump scraps AI executive order as White House factions clash over pre-release model access
Susie Wiles and Scott Bessent want it resurrected; David Sacks killed it hours before the May 21 signing.
Small businesses turn to Notion AI and Rain to absorb back-office work
A London tutor uses Notion AI for invoicing and lesson notes; a Yuma quilt shop cuts listing time 60-80% with Rain.
Nvidia pushes transaction foundation models as banks consolidate AI stacks
Revolut, Mastercard, Adyen and Stripe are training single transformer models on proprietary payment data instead of running dozens of task-specific systems.
Nvidia ships JetPack 7.2 and NemoClaw, pushing agentic AI to the edge
Jetson AGX Orin 32GB gets a 20% compute bump to 241 TOPS as Nvidia lands its agent framework on production robotics hardware.
GitHub Copilot's new usage-based pricing burns through monthly credits in a day
Subscribers report consuming their entire monthly AI allotment in hours under the new credit model that took effect June 1.
Alphabet to raise $80B in stock sale, with $10B from Berkshire, to fund AI buildout
Google's parent is selling $80B in equity, including a $10B Berkshire Hathaway stake, to keep pace with a capex plan running up to $190B this year.
Nvidia targets $200B CPU market with RTX Spark PCs from Microsoft, Dell, HP
Eight PC makers will ship RTX Spark Windows laptops this fall, with Microsoft branding its version the Surface Laptop Ultra.
Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops chase Apple's M1 moment at $2,500-plus
The 20-core, 128GB Arm chip lands in fall Surface, Dell, Asus, and Lenovo laptops — aimed at MacBook Pro, priced like it too.
Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT-linked violence
The first state-led suit against OpenAI ties ChatGPT to multiple murders and seeks damages under Florida's unfair trade laws.
GM cuts vehicle simulation from 15 hours to one minute with AI
Chief product officer Sterling Anderson says probabilistic methods now compress finite element analysis runs by three orders of magnitude.
Strava puts its API behind an $11.99 paywall, blaming zero-code AI apps
Developer applications jumped 448% year-to-date as scrapers and AI app builders strained the platform, the company said.
Grammys CEO says AI is now 'omnipresent' in music as 50,000 AI songs hit streaming daily
Recording Academy chief Harvey Mason Jr. says every recent session has involved AI, even as Grammy rules still bar AI music from top honors.
Microsoft to unveil MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model and Copilot super app at Build
Build 2026 lands in San Francisco June 2 with new in-house models, a Windows 11 developer mode, and an RTX Spark push.
DuckDuckGo ships browser extensions to default users into its no-AI search
Traffic to the AI-free search page tripled on May 28, with U.S. iOS installs up 69.9% week-over-week after Google's AI Overviews push.
Windborne's WeatherMesh 6 out-forecasts ECMWF with 400 balloons feeding the model
The Stanford-founded startup says its sixth model is as accurate five days out as a traditional forecast is the day before.
Intel's Crescent Island AI chip ships this year, undercutting Nvidia on cost and cooling
The air-cooled inference GPU uses LPDDR5 memory instead of HBM, betting that cheaper silicon wins the inference market Nvidia hasn't locked down.
US AI economy is growing 2,000% a year, hidden inside GDP statistics
A new paper from Anthropic, UVA, and the Bank of Canada pegs nominal AI GDP at $250B in 2025 — and says conventional measures miss most of it.
OpenAI model disproves Erdős unit distance conjecture after 80 years
An internal OpenAI system produced the first proof resolving a major open conjecture in discrete geometry, drawing praise from Fields Medalist Tim Gowers.
Taiwan's manufacturers fold Nvidia AI into their own fabs as Vera Rubin ramps
TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Pegatron and Inventec apply Nvidia software to the lines building 1 million MGX rack components.
Nvidia's FOX blueprint turns factory floors into agent-orchestrated systems
Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and Advantech are first to deploy the Factory Operations Blueprint, with Foxconn projecting an 80% cut in root cause analysis time.
Nvidia's AI Cloud ecosystem reaches six continents as Exemplar tier hits six partners
CoreWeave, Firmus, Nebius and others expand AI factory capacity; DSX MaxLPS squeezes 40% more GPUs into the same power budget.
Nvidia unveils RTX Spark, a Windows PC class built for local AI agents
RTX Spark packs 1 petaflop of AI compute and 128GB of unified memory, with shipping set for this fall alongside an OpenShell runtime for Windows.
Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, a foundation model for physical AI reasoning
Nvidia Research positions Cosmos 3 as the bridge from scripted robotics demos to embodied autonomy in open-world environments.
Erin Brockovich launches data center map after 4,000 community complaints
The environmental activist says transparency — not water or noise — is the top concern in submissions about US data center buildouts.
Box's Aaron Levie says CEOs are 'uniquely prone to AI psychosis'
DuckDuckGo installs jumped 30% after Google's AI search push, and one CEO is calling out his peers for losing touch with the work.
SoftBank commits up to €75B to build 5GW of AI data centers in France
The Japanese investor will spend an initial €45B to deliver 3.1GW of capacity to Hauts-de-France by 2031 — its largest European AI bet.
First Windows PC powered by Nvidia chips set to debut next week
Nvidia's entry into Windows-on-Arm-style territory puts it head-to-head with Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD in the AI PC fight.
GitHub Copilot's token-based billing draws developer backlash ahead of June 1 switch
Some users say flat-rate subscriptions of $29–$50 a month will jump to $750 or $3,000 under usage-based pricing.
Google's Gemini Spark agent handles errands, but stumbles on Keep and prices
Hands-on testing of Google's 24/7 cloud-based assistant shows it can plan trips and summarize inboxes, but trips over basic integrations.
Meta is building an AI pendant, with testing planned for next year
The device builds on Meta's late-2025 acquisition of Limitless, as Reality Labs hunts for a hardware win after a $4B Q1 loss.
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