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OpenAI and Microsoft Drop the AGI Clause, Restructure Their Partnership
For years, a single clause defined the outer limits of the OpenAI-Microsoft relationship: if OpenAI ever achieved AGI - artificial general intelligence, loosely defined as a system capable of performing any intellectual task a human can - Microsoft's access to OpenAI's models would be cut off. That clause is now gone.
Musk vs. Altman Goes to Trial: OpenAI's For-Profit Status at Stake
A trial beginning this week in Northern California could determine whether OpenAI is allowed to exist as a for-profit company - and potentially remove its leadership in the process.
Canonical Plans to Add AI Features to Ubuntu Linux Over the Next Year
Ubuntu, which powers millions of developer machines and cloud servers worldwide, is getting a formal AI roadmap. Jon Seager, VP of engineering at Canonical (the company that builds and maintains Ubuntu), published a blog post Monday outlining plans to add AI features to the Linux distribution over the next year.
Musk Amplifies Altman Exposé on X as OpenAI Lawsuit Trial Opens in Oakland
The trial for Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI opened in federal court in Oakland this week. On the same day, Musk used X - the social platform he owns - to amplify a New Yorker exposé profiling Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO.
600 Google Employees, Including Senior Leaders, Demand Pentagon AI Block
600. That's how many Google employees - including more than 20 principals, directors, and vice presidents - signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding the company refuse classified military use of its AI models.
Microsoft Clears OpenAI to Sell on AWS in Exchange for Revenue Share
$50 billion. That's what Amazon committed to OpenAI last year in one of the largest cloud infrastructure deals in the industry's history. The problem: Microsoft had contractual grounds to object, creating a legal risk that hung over the entire arrangement.
David Silver's New Lab Raises $1.1B to Train AI Without Human Data
$1.1 billion. That's what Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded just a few months ago, has raised at a $5.1 billion valuation before shipping a single product.
Musk vs. Altman: What the OpenAI Trial Starting This Week Is Actually About
Elon Musk donated millions to OpenAI at its founding in 2015. On April 27th, 2026, jury selection began in his lawsuit against the company he helped create.
Canva Apologizes After Magic Layers AI Feature Replaces 'Palestine' in Designs
Canva's Magic Layers feature automatically replaced the word "Palestine" in user designs - and Canva has since issued an apology.
DeepSeek-V4: Open Models, Huawei Chips, and a Shrinking U.S. Tech Lead
Last year, DeepSeek-R1 forced every major AI lab to rethink their pricing strategies. Now the Chinese research outfit is back with DeepSeek-V4 - and this release carries a detail that goes well beyond benchmark scores: the models run on Huawei's Ascend AI chips for inference (the compute work that happens when a model answers your question).
OpenAI Achieves FedRAMP Moderate Clearance for ChatGPT Enterprise and API
OpenAI's products are now cleared for official U.S. government use. The company received FedRAMP Moderate authorization for ChatGPT Enterprise and its API on April 27, clearing the main compliance hurdle that had kept federal agencies from formally adopting OpenAI products.
Microsoft Plans to Stop Sharing Revenue With OpenAI
Three years after Microsoft committed roughly $13 billion to OpenAI - establishing itself as OpenAI's exclusive cloud partner and gaining rights to resell OpenAI models through Azure - that arrangement is changing. According to Bloomberg, Microsoft plans to stop sharing revenue with OpenAI.
China Blocks Meta's $2B Manus Acquisition After Months-Long Probe
China has ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, the Chinese AI agent startup that drew widespread attention earlier this year for demos showing an AI completing complex, multi-step tasks with minimal human direction, according to TechCrunch's report.
Google Reportedly Weighing $40 Billion Investment in Anthropic
$40 billion. That's the reported size of a new investment Google is considering in Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude. If it closes, it would rank among the largest single investments in any private AI company in history.
OpenAI Is Reportedly Building a Smartphone Where AI Agents Replace Apps
OpenAI is reportedly developing a smartphone where AI agents take the place of traditional apps, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a strong track record on Apple supply chain predictions.
4TB of Voice Recordings Stolen From 40,000 AI Contractors at Mercor
4TB. That's how much voice data was stolen from Mercor, a hiring platform used by AI labs to recruit contractors for model training work. Roughly 40,000 people who recorded their voices as part of paid AI jobs had that audio taken in the breach.
OpenAI and Microsoft Amend $13B Partnership to Loosen Cloud Exclusivity
Three years after Microsoft committed $13 billion to OpenAI, the two companies have amended their partnership agreement - simplifying a relationship that grew complicated as OpenAI built commercial deals with Microsoft's cloud competitors.
Meta's SAM 3.1 Adds Multiplexing and Global Reasoning for Faster Video Tracking
Meta's Segment Anything Model just got a meaningful upgrade. SAM 3.1, detailed in a Meta AI blog post, adds two specific technical improvements - multiplexing and global reasoning - that together address the main complaints developers had about using SAM 2 in production video pipelines.