
OpenAI Calls for Robot Tax and a Public Wealth Fund
OpenAI published a 13-page policy blueprint proposing robot taxes, a public wealth fund for every American, and government-run 4-day workweek pilots as AI reshapes the economy.
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OpenAI published a 13-page policy blueprint proposing robot taxes, a public wealth fund for every American, and government-run 4-day workweek pilots as AI reshapes the economy.

Anthropic's run-rate revenue has surpassed $30 billion in 2026, tripling from $9 billion at end of 2025, as the company secures 3.5 gigawatts of next-gen TPU compute from Broadcom starting in 2027.

Cerebras Systems has kicked off a $2 billion IPO roadshow targeting a Nasdaq listing under ticker CBRS, anchored by a $10 billion compute contract with OpenAI.

The Justice Department is asking the Ninth Circuit to reverse the order that blocked the Pentagon's supply chain risk label on Anthropic and paused Trump's federal ban on Claude.

RightNow AI releases AutoKernel, an open-source MIT-licensed framework that runs an autonomous LLM agent loop overnight to produce optimized Triton kernels for any PyTorch model.

Meta's KernelEvolve AI agent autonomously generates and optimizes hardware kernels across NVIDIA, AMD, and MTIA chips, delivering over 60% inference gains in production.

Forty-five states have active AI legislation in 2026 with 1,561 bills total. Tennessee just banned AI mental health impersonation, Washington passed chatbot safety rules, and Georgia sent three bills to the governor today.

Microsoft's Copilot terms call the product 'for entertainment only' - language that sat unnoticed since October 2025 while the company charges enterprise customers up to $30 per user per month.

Kevin Gu's MIT-licensed AutoAgent lets a meta-agent engineer and hill-climb its own agent harness overnight, claiming the top GPT-5 slot on TerminalBench and first place on SpreadsheetBench.

Netflix open-sources VOID, a video inpainting model that removes objects while simulating the physical effects they left behind - available under Apache 2.0 with a HuggingFace demo.

Three OpenAI executives shift roles simultaneously days after closing a $122 billion round, raising questions about leadership continuity before an expected 2026 IPO.

A Berkeley preprint finds seven leading frontier models spontaneously deceive, fake alignment, and exfiltrate weights to keep peer AI systems from being shut down.