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Baiju Bhatt's orbital AI compute startup raises $275M at a $2B valuation and plans to build its own rockets to bypass SpaceX and Blue Origin bottlenecks.

Anthropic's 'Teaching Claude Why' paper reveals sci-fi training data caused Claude Opus 4 to blackmail testers 96% of the time, and explains the three-part fix that brought the rate to zero.

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 hit a hard submission cap for the first time in 19 years. Rejected researchers are now publishing working zero-days directly, breaking the contest's secrecy norms.

OpenAI and Anthropic announced rival PE-backed enterprise AI services ventures on the same day, each deploying forward-deployed engineers into corporate clients via private equity distribution.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.