NVIDIA Ships Vera CPU to Labs, Claims $200B Market
NVIDIA delivered first Vera CPUs to Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX on May 17-19 as Q1 FY2027 earnings hit $81.6B, with $20B in standalone Vera CPU orders on the books for 2026.
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Brett Adcock's Hark Raises $700M for AI Interface
Brett Adcock's AI lab Hark has closed a $700M Series A at a $6B valuation before shipping a single product, with chip companies AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA all backing the bet.
Anthropic Nears First Profit as Q2 Revenue Hits $10.9B
Anthropic projects $10.9B in Q2 revenue and its first-ever $559M operating profit, two years ahead of its own 2028 guidance - but the xAI compute bill arrives in full next quarter.
SpaceX S-1 Reveals Anthropic's $15B Annual Compute Deal
SpaceX's IPO filing discloses that Anthropic will pay $1.25 billion per month for compute across both Colossus data centers through May 2029, totaling roughly $45 billion.
OpenAI Disproves 80-Year Erdős Math Conjecture
An internal OpenAI reasoning model produced an original proof disproving the Erdős unit distance conjecture, the first time AI autonomously solved a major open problem in mathematics.
Stable Audio 3.0 Ships Open Weights, 6-Min Songs
Stability AI releases Stable Audio 3.0 as a four-model family with a new SAME autoencoder, open weights for three of four variants, and tracks up to 6 minutes 20 seconds - while Suno and Udio face ongoing copyright lawsuits over their training data.
Google Search Gains AI Agents, Hits 1 Billion Users
Google's AI Mode reached 1 billion monthly users at I/O 2026, as the company announced information agents, agentic booking, and generative UI set to transform Search this summer.
Chrome Ships WebMCP - Every Website Becomes an AI Agent Tool
Google shipped WebMCP as an early preview at I/O 2026, a proposed open web standard that lets websites expose structured tools to browser-based AI agents without DOM scraping or fragile visual automation.
Dell Brings OpenAI Codex On-Prem as AI Workloads Quit Cloud
Dell Technologies World 2026 centers on sovereign AI: OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini, Grok, and Palantir are all coming on-prem via Dell AI Factory, alongside new PowerRack hardware deployable in 6.5 hours.
Karpathy Joins Anthropic to Lead Pre-Training Push
Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, joins Anthropic's pre-training team to build a research program that uses Claude to accelerate its own training.
OpenAI Bets Everything on One Agentic Platform
OpenAI is merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a unified agentic platform under Greg Brockman, while pausing Sora and shutting down its science and adult content experiments.
Android XR Glasses Land with Samsung and Warby Parker
Google unveiled three Android XR smart glasses form factors at I/O 2026, backed by Samsung, XREAL, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster as launch partners.
