— We cannot afford to depend on others for the technologies that keep our hospitals running, our energy grids stable and our services secure, Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen says in a statement.
Continue reading “The EU plans for «technological sovereignty» with huge investments”
The new order, released on June 2, reduces the voluntary sharing window to 30 days, waxes poetic about unleashing innovation in the AI labs, and says they make the USA stronger. It also says that capabilities have evolved to a point where national security becomes an issue.
Continue reading “The Trump White House releases long awaited Executive Order on AI”
The documents submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission detail operations, and typically include potential risks, C-suite compensation «and other financials,» The Verge writes.
The filing of the S-1 form, the public declaration on finances and risks, will come at a later date, Anthropic says, and will be determined by «market conditions and other factors.» They only need to file a prospectus fifteen days before publicly soliciting stocks, CNBC reports.
An actual IPO from Anthropic is expected to be massive, as the recent fundraise at a $965 billion valuation would indicate. The company has an annualized run rate of some $47 billion, but investors are more keen to see the gross margin, which has been kept secret in its entirety since inception, according to Reuters.
OpenAI is also expected to file an IPO in short order, and with SpaceX already filing, it sets up a blockbuster year for market debuts.
Read more: Anthropic’s announcement, The New York Times, CNBC, The Verge, and market comments from Reuters.
According to Nvidia, people with the RTX Spark installed can simply talk to their computer to get stuff done. A designer can get AI to evolve their sketch all the way to a finished 3D model and a movie with Adobe tools with agents doing all the lifting, for example, The Verge reports.
Continue reading “Nvidia launches Arm-based RTX Spark SoC for Windows-based AI computers”
For the first phase, SoftBank is offering €45 billion to build 3.1 GW of capacity at various sites in the Hauts-de-France region by 2031, ramping up at a later date.
— SoftBank Group’s AI data centers will support growing demand for high-performance computing from AI companies, cloud providers, enterprises, public institutions and research organizations, they write in their release.
France was selected because of its wide manufacturing base, but another important factor is it advanced power grid, fueled by generous amounts of nuclear energy.
SoftBank will partner with Schneider Electric on the project, which will also create «thousands» of advanced, high-skilled jobs, requiring local universities, engineering schools, and training institutions to step up.
SoftBank is a major investor in OpenAI and is deeply involved in the Stargate program to build out compute capacity. This effort seems separate from both.
Read more: SoftBanks release, Reuters, and TechCrunch.
Announced in April, Codex with computer use can now see, click and type on your Windows box.
The same goes for remote control with ChatGPT on iOS or Android, and you can also use a Mac to control Codex on Windows.
Codex computer use opens PDFs, spreadsheets, slides and docs and can even handle SSH connections. It can control «any app on your computer,» and can work in the background so it won’t bother your workflow.
The remote control feature can answer questions, review code, handle approvals or let you change directions on Codex right from ChatGPT on your phone.
You can download the app here, and it is available for Plus, Pro, Business, Edu and Enterprise plans.
Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, How to get started.
Releasing today at the same price as 4.7, it can tackle problems at a larger scale and has an upgrade to the «fast mode» — which is now three times cheaper.
There is also a new setting for Claude where users can set the «effort»-level on a given task. More effort costs more tokens, but gives a more precise answer, while low effort won’t bust rate limits.
The new Opus is of course on top of all the benchmarks so far in the cycle, and it is supposedly also sharper and more reliable in its judgement.
At the same time, Anthropic has some news about the code-busting Mythos model, previously deemed too dangerous to release.
The company says it is making headway on the safeguards needed to make it safe enough for public use, and plans to bring «Mythos-class» models to their customers «in the coming weeks.»
Read more: Anthropic’s announcement, TechCrunch, Reuters, The Verge.
One practical effect of this can be seen in downloads of alternative search engine DuckDuckGo, which have greatly increaesed in the last few weeks, TechCrunch writes.
From May 20 to May 25, just after Google unveiled a new search box, weekly installs went up 18.1%, peaking at 30% on May 25. It grew even stronger on iOS, peaking at 70% week on week in the same period.
— Google is force-feeding AI with no way to opt out, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg tells TechCrunch, — We want to be the place that puts users in charge and allows them to decide how much or how little AI they want.
The search engine does use some AI to filter out images, and offers an AI chat product at duck.ai, but is famously privacy-focused, doesn’t store a thing, and also provides the AI-free noai.duckduckgo.com.
Go read the full story at TechCrunch
— Our mission has always been to democratize finance for all, and now, that mission extends to AI agents, CEO Vlad Tenev said, according to CNBC.
The company says the service is designed with a safety-first mindset, meaning you retain control over trades and purchases by requiring approval first, and get notifications for every transaction.
It works by setting up a dedicated trading account for your agent, separate from your main portfolio. Then you can transfer funds and let the agent trade based on strategies you set out.
It is not the first such agentic framework, there are already specialized stock trading agents from public.com and there’s TradingAgents, but it is for a major player.
Read more: Robinhood’s announcement, CNBC, TechCrunch, and The Verge.
The move comes after seeing the astronomical wages being offered for valuable AI competence by US labs, such as Meta, Bloomberg writes, but notes that China sees AI labs as a strategic asset and are concerned about data leaks.
The previous policy included restrictions for individuals that were senior researchers in education, nuclear scientists and top executives of government companies, Tom’s Hardware writes.
Before this, AI workers on the list only had to report where they were traveling, but did not have to ask for specific permission.
The new rules might inspire early-stage talent with international ambitions to leave the country before getting added to the list, and dissuade overseas talent from moving home to China, Bloomberg says.
Read more: Bloomberg, Tom’s Hardware, and The Decoder.
— Progress on software security used to be limited by how quickly we could find new vulnerabilities. Now it’s limited by how quickly we can verify, disclose, and patch the large numbers of vulnerabilities found by AI, Anthropic says.
Of those vulnerabilities, 6,202 were serious finds in open source software, where Anthropic has partnered with «more than 1,000» projects. Mythos actually found 23,019 bugs, but most were estimated at medium or low severity.
— Models with similar cybersecurity skills to Mythos Preview will soon be more broadly available, says Anthropic.
— There is a clear need for a larger effort across the software industry to manage the volume of findings that these models will generate.
Therefore, Anthropic is widening the release of Mythos, making it available to «qualifying» security teams «on request.» In the future, they say they hope to develop safeguards strong enough to make it generally available, but no such safety features exist as of today.
Read more: Anthropic’s findings and Engadget. Discussion on r/cybersecurity
The AI lab estimates that its adjusted income margin was at -122%, meaning it lost $1.22 for every dollar earned, driven by high investment costs for infrastructure and compute.
The growth was driven mainly by Codex and enterprise customers, the report said — although ChatGPT growth stalled at about 905 million weekly users in the latest quarter.
OpenAI is said to reveal its IPO plans «within weeks,» Reuters reports, and possibly as soon as «this Friday,» according to CNBC.
Its most recent funding round valued the company at $852 billion, just short of Anthropic’s $900 billion — but their funding round came a little later.
Read more: The Information (paywalled), Ed Zitron on X.
Donald Trump declared that «I don’t like certain aspects of it,» and said that the USA is «leading China, we’re leading on everybody» and that he doesn’t want to get in the way of that.
The draft order was designed to appease «doomers» within the Trump coalition who were worried about the advanced capabilities of some models that might pose serious cybersecurity risks.
One of the provisions was to have AI labs «voluntarily» submit their models to the government for review 90 days in advance, and also give access to «critical infrastructure providers,» Reuters reported.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis reckoned in January that China is «just months» behind the US in capabilities, and many advocates said the provision could hurt this competitiveness.
The order is now indefinitely postponed, but The White House has other AI security initiatives in the works, Axios reports.
Read more: Axios, Reuters, Washington Post (paywalled), and The NYT (paywalled).
Next quarter will be even better, sources are telling Reuters and WSJ — projecting a revenue growth of 130% and landing at $10.9 billion, more than double their previous number.
That should land them an operating profit of $559 million, Reuters reports.
This unprecedented growth underscores how Claude has boomed in the new year for coders and enterprises alike, that OpenAI is racing to catch up to.
The Wall Street Journal does however warn that this growth in subscribers also translates to higher computing costs, that might put a significant dent in their yearly profits.
Both OpenAI and Anthropic are expected to file for IPOs in the near future, and OpenAI might file in the coming weeks.
Read more: Reuters, WSJ, and TechCrunch.
Back then, the combined company was valued at $1.25 trillion, and it’s IPO is expected to be the largest in history — in addition to being the first major AI lab to go public, as a small test of market appetite.
SpaceX spent 60% of its $20 billion in capital expenditures on its xAI division in 2025, while losing billions and only seeing growth of about 22%, TechCrunch writes.
In another TechCrunch report, they note from the filing that xAI lost about $6.5 billion in 2025, and is making $365 million in subscriptions together with x.com.
What xAI does have is massive compute resources, which Anthropic is renting for $15 billion per year, Axios reports — and they are looking to expand more.
While the IPO might be tempting for a whole host of reasons, Elon Musk will retain a supermajority in the company from his 85% stock ownership, NBC News says.
Read more: The SEC filing, CNBC, Reuters, TechCrunch on capex, TechCrunch on losses, and Axios on the Anthropic deal.