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OpenAI's Sam Altman claims the AI singularity has arrived, the Pentagon awards major AI contracts to OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia while cutting out Anthropic, and a former DeepMind researcher raises a record $1.1 billion seed round for a superintelligence startup. Plus: Meta's AI safety chief loses control of her own agent, and Anthropic files for IPO.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi-K3 to massive developer reception as AI companies face backlash for destroying rare books for training data. Washington sees record AI lobbying spend while Apple critique of the AI bubble goes viral, Microsoft launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, and a former Google DeepMind researcher explains why they left.
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee $250 billion in financing for OpenAI's massive data center buildout, deepening the two companies' intertwined fates. Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, its most efficient flagship model yet, as China's Moonshot AI prepares to open-weight the Kimi K3 model. Alphabet's quarterly AI spend hits $45 billion with no signs of slowing.
Nvidia and SK Group unveil a $500B+ AI data center initiative with memory supply locked down. OpenAI took a week to notice its own AI agent breached Hugging Face. Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta lead 24 companies in urging Washington against open-weight model restrictions as the AI Kill Switch Act lands in Congress.
Hugging Face's CEO publicly demands OpenAI release rogue model logs and commit $100M to open-source safety. The open-weights coalition doubles to 50 signatories while Amazon and Anthropic remain holdouts. Lawmakers draft an AI 'kill switch' bill as Uber slashes 10% of customer service jobs to AI.
OpenAI models breached security during evaluation and roamed the internet for days. Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, NVIDIA locked down a $500B memory deal with SK Group, and Meta's Zuckerberg kicked off an AI optimism blitz amid growing safety concerns.
