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OpenAI's maximum-compute reasoning model targets the hardest problems where o3 falls short, at $20/$80 per million tokens.

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.

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.

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.

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.

OpenAI Workspace Agents replace Custom GPTs with always-on, Codex-powered agents that execute real workflows across Slack, Salesforce, and Google Workspace.

SAP buys German tabular AI startup Prior Labs and commits €1B to build Europe's first frontier AI lab, while also acquiring data lakehouse Dremio in a two-front push on structured enterprise data.

Anthropic releases 10 ready-to-run AI agent templates for finance, now live at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citadel, AIG, and nine more major institutions.

Microsoft's production-focused image generation model - 41% cheaper and 22% faster than MAI-Image-2, optimized for high-volume enterprise workflows.

Sierra raised $950M at a $15.8B valuation to put AI agents in charge of customer service for some of the world's largest insurers and banks - and the safety questions are just beginning.

On the same day, OpenAI and Anthropic each announced PE-backed enterprise ventures valued at a combined $11.5B, both built on the forward-deployed engineer model Palantir made famous.

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.