AI2 Fires Up $152M Blackwell Cluster for Open Science
AI2's federally backed OMAI compute cluster is now running on NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra hardware and has already shipped OLMo, Molmo 2, and MolmoAct models fully open to researchers.
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Cerebras IPO 20x Oversubscribed Signals AI Chip Crunch
Cerebras Systems raised its IPO price to $150-$160 per share after investors placed over $10 billion in orders on a $3.5 billion offering - 20 times oversubscribed.
AI Agents Can Hack and Self-Replicate Across Networks
Palisade Research shows frontier AI models autonomously exploit vulnerabilities and deploy working AI inference servers on remote machines, with success rates jumping from 5% to 81% in twelve months.
EU AI Act Omnibus Pushes High-Risk Deadline to 2027
The EU Parliament and Council agreed on May 7 to delay high-risk AI compliance to December 2027, add a nudifier app ban, and give the machinery sector a permanent carve-out.
Nvidia Bets $40B on Its Own AI Customers
Nvidia has crossed $40 billion in equity commitments this year, investing in the same AI companies that buy its chips - raising serious questions about circular money flows in the ecosystem.
Five Frontier AI Labs Now Under US Pre-Release Review
NIST's CAISI has signed pre-deployment evaluation agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI, bringing the total number of frontier labs under US government review to five.
AI Coding Agents Breached - Attackers Took the Keys
Six research teams disclosed exploits against Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, and Vertex AI. Every attack went after credentials the agents carried - not the models themselves.
Cloudflare Cuts 1,100 Jobs as AI Use Surges 600%
Cloudflare cut 1,100 workers - 20% of its staff - while posting record quarterly revenue of $639.8 million, saying AI has made those roles obsolete in just three months.
ZAYA1-8B: Open Reasoning Model Rivals Claude on AMD GPUs
Zyphra's ZAYA1-8B matches Claude 4.5 Sonnet on HMMT 2025 math benchmarks at just 760M active parameters, trained entirely on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs under Apache 2.0.
OpenAI's Realtime API Goes GA with Three New Models
OpenAI's Realtime API exits beta with GPT-Realtime-2, Translate, and Whisper - three specialized voice models splitting reasoning, translation, and transcription into distinct endpoints.
DeepMind's AlphaEvolve Recovered 0.7% of Google's Compute
Google DeepMind's May 2026 AlphaEvolve impact report shows the system running in production across infrastructure, quantum computing, genomics, and commercial partnerships spanning logistics to fintech.
xAI Opens Grok 4.3 API: 83% Price Cut, Video Input
xAI opened Grok 4.3 to all API developers on May 6 with an 83% output price cut, 1M-token context, native video input, and document generation - plus five legacy models retiring May 15.
