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A cyberattack on Canvas, the world’s most widely used learning management system, has exposed data belonging to roughly 275 million students, teachers, and staff across nearly 9,000 educational institutions worldwide. The breach, carried out by the criminal extortion group ShinyHunters, is now considered the largest education-sector security incident ever recorded. The hack affected an estimated 9,000 universities, education ministries, and other institutions worldwide, with particularly significant implications in the United States, where Canvas is used by 41% of higher education institutions as well as some K-12 schools. The disruption hit at the worst possible time, as it occurred during the…

Amazon has agreed to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic, on top of the $8 billion it has already poured into the AI startup, as part of an expanded deal for Anthropic to secure up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of capacity for training and deploying Claude. In exchange, Anthropic committed to spending more than $100 billion on AWS technologies over the next ten years. The numbers are large enough to command attention, and what they reveal about the current state of the AI race is worth understanding. What the Deal Actually Involves Amazon is making an immediate investment of…

The seven-year alliance that gave Microsoft a lock on all of OpenAI’s technology has officially been cracked open. On April 27, 2026, OpenAI and Microsoft announced a revised partnership that ends the exclusivity arrangement that has existed at the core of their relationship since 2019, freeing OpenAI to serve all of its products to customers on any cloud provider, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. Why the Deal Changed The ChatGPT-maker says its growing commercial ambitions had been running into a structural ceiling, according to an internal memo seen by CNBC. As enterprise demand scaled, the Azure-only model…

The U.S. government will now be reviewing the most advanced AI models before they go public. The U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) recently announced formal agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk’s xAI that will allow the U.S. government to evaluate their AI models before they are publicly available.  This move extends a federal oversight framework that already includes OpenAI and Anthropic, whose earlier agreements with CAISI were renegotiated to reflect updated directives from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and America’s AI Action Plan. CAISI, established in 2025 under President Trump administration, sits under the U.S. Department…

Anthropic has signed a deal with SpaceX to use the entire computing capacity of Colossus 1, SpaceX’s flagship AI data center located in Memphis, Tennessee. The agreement gives Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity, backed by over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, all of which will come online within this month. According to CEO Dario Amodei, this deal was built specifically to ease capacity pressure on the company’s most active users. What Changes for Claude Users Anthropic says it will be doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. The company is…

Microsoft has removed the General Manager of its Israeli subsidiary and several other senior staff members after an internal investigation found that the Israeli military violated the company’s terms of service by using Azure cloud infrastructure to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians.  The investigation also found that Microsoft Israel’s leadership had not been fully transparent with the company’s global headquarters about how the Israeli Defense Ministry was using its systems. Alon Haimovich, who had served as general manager of Microsoft Israel for four years, will be leaving the company at the end of May, alongside several other senior staff. In…

Google has signed a classified artificial intelligence (AI) deal with the United States Department of Defense (DoD), giving the Pentagon access to its Gemini AI models for, in the contract’s own words, “any lawful government purpose.” More than 600 employees at Google DeepMind and Cloud responded with an open letter to CEO Sundar Pichai, urging him to reject the terms. He did not. The classified deal is an amendment to a $200 million contract Google had already signed with the Pentagon, under which Gemini was being used on unclassified government systems, including through the Pentagon’s GenAI.mil platform. The new layer…

In defense technology, government contracts are often the foundation that private investment builds on. The government lays the groundwork and then venture capital follows. That pattern just played out with True Anomaly. Four days after the U.S. Space Force named it among 12 companies selected to develop space-based interceptors for the Golden Dome program, the Colorado-based startup announced a $650 million Series D funding round, pushing its valuation to $2.2 billion. What True Anomaly Builds The company builds three things. The first is Jackal, a multirole autonomous orbital vehicle roughly the size of a small refrigerator, designed to be mission-configurable…

SoftBank is creating a new company called Roze, designed to deploy autonomous robots to build artificial intelligence (AI) data centers across the United States. According to reports from the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, SoftBank is already preparing the venture for a public listing, with some executives targeting the second half of 2026 for an IPO on a U.S. exchange. The desired valuation is reported to be around $100 billion. The plan, driven by SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son, reflects a calculated response to one of the most pressing bottlenecks in AI development today. Building the physical…

China’s top economic planning agency has ordered Meta to walk away from its acquisition of Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup, in one of the most direct interventions Beijing has made in a cross-border technology deal to date. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) published a brief statement on April 27, 2026, saying it had decided to prohibit foreign investment in the Manus project and had required all parties to withdraw from the deal. The deal was valued at roughly $2 billion, with Meta announcing the acquisition back in December 2025 alongside plans to fold Manus’ agent technology directly into…