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OpenAI has launched the OpenAI Deployment Company (DeployCo), a majority-controlled subsidiary backed by $4B from 19 investors to help enterprises deploy frontier AI at scale.

EU Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on the Digital Omnibus regulation on May 7, 2026, extending high-risk AI compliance deadlines by up to 24 months and adding a new prohibition on non-consensual sexual AI content.

Anthropic has agreed to spend $200 billion with Google Cloud over five years for next-generation TPU compute capacity, according to The Information. The deal would represent more than 40% of Google Cloud's $460B+ revenue backlog.

New Anthropic alignment research shows that training AI models to understand the principles behind aligned behavior is significantly more effective than behavioral demonstrations alone. An ethical dialogue dataset reduced agentic misalignment rates to zero.

Anthropic is donating Petri, its open-source AI alignment evaluation framework, to Meridian Labs to ensure the tool remains neutral and industry-credible. Petri 3.0 brings major improvements in adaptability, realism, and depth.

Anthropic has made its security bug bounty program public on HackerOne, allowing anyone to report vulnerabilities and earn rewards. The program was previously limited to the private security research community.

AI chip maker Cerebras Systems raised its Nasdaq IPO price range to $150–$160/share from $115–$125, targeting a fully diluted market value of $48.8 billion. The offering was over 20x oversubscribed ahead of its May 14 trading debut.

NVIDIA AI has released Star Elastic, an innovative architecture that packs 30B, 23B, and 12B reasoning models into a single checkpoint, enabling zero-shot slicing to dynamically switch between model scales without separate downloads.

Cloudflare reported a 600% surge in AI usage in Q1 2026 while simultaneously announcing layoffs of 1,100 employees (20% of workforce) as agentic AI 'fundamentally changes' the company's operations.

A DeepMind employee publicly challenged private AI labs claiming to be on the path to AGI, arguing they should either go public or raise capital that ordinary people can invest in — otherwise, they're simply enriching billionaires.

Google has updated the Gemini API File Search tool to support multimodal content including images, audio, and video, making it easier for developers to build efficient, verifiable RAG systems.

Anthropic's independent research body, The Anthropic Institute (TAI), has published its research agenda covering economic diffusion, threats and resilience, AI systems in the wild, and AI-driven R&D—including the risk of recursive AI self-improvement by 2028.