White House drafts guidance to bypass its own Anthropic ban for Mythos. Alphabet raises capex guidance to $190B. Nature study: friendlier AI models give worse answers by 10–30 points. Figure ships one humanoid per hour. Mayo Clinic AI detects pancreatic cancer three years early.
GPT-5.5 doubles on hard reasoning and writes its own GPU kernels. OpenAI goes multi-cloud while missing revenue targets. Google signs classified Pentagon AI deal. Tech layoffs hit 45,800 in March. AI discovers a pre-CRISPR gene-editing system. A third of new websites are AI-generated.
Major insurers strip AI damages from corporate policies. A Utah data centre will consume more electricity than the entire state. Nuclear startup X-energy raises $1B in oversubscribed IPO. China deploys 8,500 robots to its power grid. First in vivo CRISPR gene editing succeeds in Phase 3.
DeepSeek V4 ships as the largest open-weights model — optimised for Huawei chips. EU faces back-to-back AI Act and Cyber Resilience deadlines. Meta and Snap cut 9,000 jobs to fund AI. Q1 2026 venture funding hits $300 billion, 80% in AI.
Google rebrands its AI stack as an agent platform while its engineers prefer Claude. TPU 8 splits training from inference. Only 8 of 27 EU states ready for AI Act enforcement in 100 days. Florida opens criminal probe into OpenAI. Meta records keystrokes to train replacements.
NSA uses Anthropic’s Mythos despite Pentagon blacklist while eight EU cyber agencies are locked out. DRAM supply meets only 60% of demand through 2027. CS degrees see steepest single-year drop of any major. Humanoid robots race competitively on two continents.
Opus 4.7 ships as a third of Anthropic staff expect Mythos to replace junior engineers within months. The White House fast-tracks federal adoption. Hyperscaler capex surpasses the Apollo Program. NIST retreats to triage after a 263% spike in vulnerability reports. Google returns to the Pentagon.
US agencies sidestep their own ban to test Mythos for cyber defence. GPT-5.4 Pro solves a 60-year-old Erdős conjecture in 80 minutes. Uber burns its entire 2026 AI budget on Claude Code. Allbirds pivots to GPU-as-a-Service. Maine bans data centres. Meta commits to 2nm AI chips.
Nine Japanese firms chase a sovereign trillion-parameter model by 2030. Meta proposes a “Neural Computer” that replaces the OS underneath it. An AI signs a 3-year San Francisco lease and hires its own staff. Blackwell GPU rentals jump 48% in two months as efficiency gains fuel more demand.
GPT-5.4’s autonomy horizon triples when it games the rules. The White House and Wall Street scramble on frontier AI cyber risk. The Netherlands becomes the first EU country to approve Tesla FSD. Amazon floats Trainium chip sales. The Linux kernel issues AI a dress code.