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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…

Robotics labs operate on a basic assumption that the machines inside them take instructions only from authorized sources. However, that assumption immediately falls apart when the software running those machines can be reached and hijacked by anyone with a network connection and the right payload. That is exactly the situation researchers have now exposed with LeRobot, Hugging Face’s open-source robotics platform. A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-25874 with a CVSS score of 9.3, was publicly disclosed on April 28, 2026. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on systems running LeRobot, with no login credentials required. The platform…

For decades, the cybersecurity industry worked on the assumption that a lock is only as useful if you know who has the keys. And so, there was a process of verifying a person’s identity, granting access, and then trusting they are who they say they are. However, the proliferation of AI tools has broken that assumption. Today, the average enterprise network is not only accessed by dozens of employees but by thousands of automated systems, AI agents, and machine credentials, many of which were never designed with security as a priority. On January 8, 2026, CrowdStrike announced it had signed…

Running an AI agent inside a business without a security layer is a bit like wiring a new electrical system throughout a building and skipping the circuit breakers. The power is on, everything works, but nobody notices the problem until something overloads. On April 30, 2026, Palo Alto Networks announced its intent to acquire Portkey, a startup that functions as that missing security layer, sitting between enterprise applications and AI model APIs to handle authentication, routing, and policy enforcement for AI traffic. While the financial terms were not disclosed, the deal is expected to close in Palo Alto’s fourth fiscal…