A new Gallup poll finds 71 percent of Americans oppose AI data centers in their local communities, a higher opposition rate than nuclear power plants, citing water use, energy consumption, and rising utility costs.
Anthropic and the Gates Foundation announced a $200 million four-year partnership to deploy AI tools for health, education, and agriculture in low-income countries, starting with diseases like polio, HPV, and eclampsia.
OpenAI is reportedly developing an AI-first smartphone built around agents instead of apps, partnering with MediaTek and Qualcomm on chips and targeting mass production in 2027.
Google I/O 2026 kicks off Tuesday, May 19, with the company expected to unveil Gemini 4.0, Android XR smart glasses, Android 17 with deep AI integration, and a new line of AI-first Googlebook laptops.
Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI in paying corporate customers for the first time, with 34.4 percent of U.S. businesses now using Claude versus OpenAI’s 32.3 percent, timed to a $30 billion fundraise pegging its valuation at $900 billion.
The Trump administration is sharply divided over a proposal to give U.S. intelligence agencies authority to evaluate advanced AI models before public release. Commerce officials and White House tech advisors are resisting, fearing it will slow development. The fight reveals how much the AI safety conversation has shifted since Anthropic’s Mythos.
AI video startup Runway added $40 million in ARR in Q2 2026 and is now valued at $5.3 billion. The company is not just competing in video generation anymore. It is pursuing world models, putting it in direct competition with Google DeepMind and OpenAI on far bigger turf.
Weeks after closing a record $122 billion fundraising round, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company may need to raise even more capital as the compute crunch deepens. She pointed to public markets as a significantly larger pool of financing, the clearest IPO signal yet from senior OpenAI leadership.
House Homeland Security Committee received a live demonstration of Anthropic’s Mythos model, which has found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. The NSA is already using it. Congress is only beginning to understand what that means.
Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire Stainless for at least $300 million. Stainless builds the official SDKs that OpenAI, Google, and Meta ship to developers worldwide. If the deal closes, Anthropic will own the toolchain its competitors depend on.