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Reid Hoffman says doctors not using AI for second opinions border on malpractice
The LinkedIn cofounder, speaking at WIRED Health in London, argues frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic should sit beside every clinician.
SoftBank lines up Roze AI, a robot-built data center venture, for a $100B IPO
The Japanese conglomerate wants to take Roze AI public as soon as the second half of 2026, with autonomous robots assembling US server farms.
Musk admits he froze OpenAI funding and poached Karpathy during 2017 power fight
Day three of Musk v. Altman surfaced emails showing Musk halted $5M quarterly payments and recruited from OpenAI while still on its board.
Anthropic weighs $50B round at up to $900B, more than double February's mark
Preemptive bids land at $850B–$900B as run-rate revenue jumps from $9B to $30B in four months. A board decision is expected in May.
AWS grows 28% to $37.6B as Amazon's free cash flow craters 95%
Andy Jassy says the AI revenue run rate at AWS now sits above $15B, but capex spending is gutting near-term free cash flow.
GPT-5.5 Catches SEO Issues Claude Missed in Hands-On Site Audit Test
A live test of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on a real website surfaced fresh SEO recommendations that five prior Claude audits had missed.
OpenAI Strikes Back With GPT-5.5 as Anthropic Hits $1tn Secondary Valuation
OpenAI's new model targets agentic coding work as Anthropic pulls ahead in enterprise and trades at a higher private-market valuation.
Google Cloud clears $20B in Q1 but says it can't keep up with demand
Revenue rose 63% year-over-year and the backlog doubled to $462B, but Sundar Pichai told analysts the business is compute-constrained.
Microsoft says Copilot has crossed 20M paid seats with engagement matching Outlook
Satya Nadella told investors Copilot queries per user rose nearly 20% quarter over quarter, and Accenture just signed for 740,000 seats.
Nadella says Microsoft will 'exploit' royalty-free OpenAI access through 2032
Microsoft's AI run rate hit $37B, up 123% year-over-year, as the CEO shrugs off concerns about OpenAI's new Amazon deal.
Meta loses another $4B on Reality Labs as AI capex balloons past $125B
Reality Labs has now bled $83.5B since 2021, even as Meta projects up to $145B in 2026 infrastructure spending.
Musk admits under oath Tesla isn't pursuing AGI, contradicting his own X post
On day two of his OpenAI trial, Elon Musk's tweets keep undercutting his testimony — including a $100M investment claim that was actually $38M.
Taylor Swift files likeness trademarks as TikTok deepfake ads spread
Copyleaks found scam ads using AI-generated Swift, Rihanna, and Kardashian to phish TikTok users for personal data through a fake rewards program.
First responders tell NHTSA Waymo robotaxis are getting worse, not better
San Francisco and Austin officials say Waymos freeze on hand signals, block fire stations, and stranded a 911 operator on hold for 53 minutes.
Google adds 25M paid subscriptions in Q1, hits 350M total
YouTube Premium and Google One drive subscription growth as YouTube ad revenue misses Wall Street's $9.99B target by $110M.
OpenAI's Codex system prompt tells GPT-5.5 to never mention goblins
A 3,500-word base instruction set leaked on GitHub bans talk of goblins, gremlins, and raccoons unless the user asks first.
Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after Series A
Parag Agrawal's agent-tooling startup raised a $100M Series B led by Sequoia, nearly tripling its valuation since November.
Runway CEO says world models are the next act after AI video
The New York startup has raised close to $860M at a $5.3B valuation and is now chasing gaming, robotics, and real-time generation.
SenseTime open-sources SenseNova U1, an image model tuned for Chinese chips
Ten Chinese chip designers including Cambricon and Biren backed the model on day one as the sanctioned firm bets on open source to catch up.
Pure DC pauses Middle East data center buildout after Iranian drone strike
Iranian missile and drone attacks have damaged AWS, Oracle, and Pure DC sites, freezing a trillion-dollar Gulf AI data center plan.
Google brings Nano Banana and Veo to Google TV through a new Gemini tab
A Create button inside the Gemini tab lets viewers generate images and video clips by voice, starting on TCL sets in the US.
Google Photos turns your camera roll into a Clueless-style digital closet
A new AI feature catalogs clothes from your library, builds outfits, and offers virtual try-on, landing on Android later this summer.
Shapes raises $8M to put AI characters inside human group chats
The Lightspeed-led seed funds an app with 400,000 monthly users where AI 'Shapes' chat alongside friends instead of one-on-one.
Firestorm Labs raises $82M to print drones inside shipping containers
The San Diego startup's xCell unit prints drone systems in under 24 hours and is already deployed with the Air Force in New York and Florida.
OpenAI faces seven California lawsuits over Tumbler Ridge school shooting
Families allege OpenAI's safety team flagged the shooter's ChatGPT account 8 months before the attack, but leadership declined to alert police.
Scout AI raises $100M to train a vision-language-action model for the battlefield
Coby Adcock and Collin Otis's defense lab is building an AI called Fury to drive ATVs and command drones, with $11M in DoD contracts already booked.
Ara Darzi says AI diagnostics now hit 99% accuracy on antibiotic-resistant infections
At WIRED Health in London, the Imperial College surgeon laid out the case that AI is the only credible answer to a crisis projected to kill 40 million by 2050.
Eka's robots screw in light bulbs and sort chicken nuggets, claiming a path to superhuman dexterity
MIT's Pulkit Agrawal and ex-DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja say simulation, not human demos, will crack the dexterity problem.
EU Delays AI Act Enforcement by Up to Two Years After Industry Lobbying
Brussels pushes high-risk AI compliance deadlines from August 2026 to as late as August 2028, handing European AI firms a reprieve.
600 Google Staff Urge Pichai to Drop Pentagon AI Deal Anthropic Walked Away From
More than 600 employees, including senior DeepMind researchers, are pressing Google to refuse a classified Pentagon contract.
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