Pentagon Clears 8 AI Firms for Classified Networks
The Pentagon signed AI agreements with eight tech companies for its most classified military networks, pointedly excluding Anthropic even as courts battle over its blacklist status.
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Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Unifies Vision, Audio, Language
NVIDIA's new open omni model activates 3B of 30B parameters, processes video, audio, and documents in one pass, and delivers up to 9.2x higher throughput than other open omni models.
OpenAI Faces $1B Lawsuit After Ignoring Shooting Flags
Seven families filed federal lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman personally, seeking over $1B after the company ignored its safety team's warnings before the Tumbler Ridge shooting.
Gemini in 4M Cars - GM Bets the Dashboard on Google
Gemini arrives in 4 million GM vehicles and 16 Volvo models via OTA update as GM phases out Apple CarPlay by 2028. The in-car AI platform war is now a real fight.
Microsoft AI Revenue Hits $37B as Copilot Tops 20M Seats
Microsoft's Q3 FY2026 earnings show its AI business running at $37 billion annually - up 123 percent - while Copilot enterprise seats hit 20 million, demolishing the low-adoption narrative.
Claude Enters the Creative Studio - 9 MCP Connectors
Anthropic releases nine MCP-based connectors embedding Claude directly into Adobe, Blender, Autodesk, Ableton, and five other professional creative tools.
Mistral Ships Medium 3.5 With Cloud Coding Agents
Mistral releases Medium 3.5, a 128B open-weights model that scores 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified, and pairs it with asynchronous cloud coding agents in Vibe that open pull requests on GitHub while you are away.
Claude Code's Billing Filter Reads Your Git History
A server-side content filter in Claude Code routes requests to extra-usage billing when specific strings appear in git commit history - including OpenClaw schemas and HERMES.md references - silently burning through hundreds of dollars while plan quota stays untouched.
Anthropic Weighs $50B Raise - Could Top OpenAI
Anthropic is considering a $40-50 billion funding round at a valuation of up to $900 billion, which would make it the world's most valuable private AI company, surpassing OpenAI.
OpenAI Misses Revenue Targets - IPO in Doubt
WSJ reports OpenAI missed multiple monthly revenue targets and its 1B user goal in 2026, sending Oracle down 6% and chip stocks sliding as IPO doubts surface.
Musk v. Altman Trial Opens - OpenAI's Future at Stake
A federal trial over OpenAI's shift from nonprofit to for-profit opened in Oakland on April 28, with Musk seeking $134B in damages, Altman's removal, and a full corporate reversal.
Critical RCE in LeRobot Lets Attackers Hijack Robots
CVE-2026-25874 (CVSS 9.3) exposes LeRobot's gRPC server to unauthenticated remote code execution via pickle deserialization, threatening robot control systems and GPU infrastructure.
