OpenAI buys out of Microsoft exclusivity deal, other enterprise clouds like AWS will be able to sell OpenAI models. - OpenAI

Explains why Microsoft wasn't suing over AWS deal, but sounds like Microsoft now gets to keep all the revenue from reselling OpenAI for next 5 years (including new models?), after which it will need to do deals like Amazon and other providers. Presumably no more IP clause with AGI carve-out.

OpenAI growth slowing and missing targets, CFO Sarah Friar reportedly at odds with Sam Altman over data center spending without sufficient revenue, as AI capex projected to hit $660 billion in 2026. - The Wall Street Journal

OpenAI CFO reportedly disagrees with Sam Altman over data center spending without sufficient revenue, as AI capex projected to hit $660 billion in 2026. - Fortune

Qualcomm shares jump 13% on report of OpenAI tie-up for AI smartphone processors - Reuters

Bank CEO uses AI avatar to deliver earnings call, says OpenAI will help improve operations. - CNBC

Nvidia deployed OpenAI's Codex to 10,000 employees; Jensen Huang hailed 'age of AI', Sam Altman said 'awesome'. - Yahoo

Hive of scrum and villainy: OpenAI gives Codex AI agents an Asana-like Kanban board to facilitate managing / orchestrating them - OpenAI

Codex really likes to talk about goblins. - Ethan Mollick

Surge pricing for your coding goblin: GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing - The GitHub Blog

Jury questionnaires negative on Elon Musk: "a greedy, racist, homophobic piece of garbage." - The Verge

Billionaire divorce court: Jury selection begins in Musk v. Altman trial in California with Altman and Brockman present. - CNBC

Trump administration threatened to invoke Cold War-era Defense Production Act against Anthropic during contract dispute. - The Atlantic

Schneier on Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview. - Schneier on Security

Nvidia VP says his AI team compute costs exceed employee costs, Facebook $ run rate for tokens mounts into the billions. - Yahoo

Power-eating goblins: Devin O'Leary's 9 GW Utah data center campus approved, consuming more than double the state's entire electricity use across 40,000 acres. - Tom's Hardware

Over 600 Google employees demand company refuse Pentagon AI work over weapons and surveillance risks. - Gizmodo

Google signs classified Pentagon deal allowing AI use for 'any lawful government purpose' - The Verge

EU tells Google to open Android to third-party AI; Google calls it unwarranted intervention. - Ars Technica

Google tests 'Ask YouTube' AI chatbot search for Premium subscribers in US - The Verge

It’s not alive, we swear: Google DeepMind paper argues AI systems will never achieve consciousness, calling AGI a 'non-sentient tool'; philosophers say argument is sound but not new. - 404 Media

Low-cost models from DeepSeek, Qwen and Moonshot pressure Silicon Valley rivals. (gift link) - Bloomberg

Xiaomi releases open-source MiMo-V2.5-Pro achieving 63.8% on agentic tasks with 40-60% fewer tokens than leading competitors - VentureBeat

Former DeepMind researcher David Silver raised $1.1 billion for an AI that learns without human data. - TechCrunch

Shadow IT: Over 70% of enterprise AI usage lacks proper oversight as workers drive adoption faster than companies can govern it, creating security risks. - TechRadar

Large enterprises prioritize compliance and sovereignty over compute, shifting from public cloud AI to sovereign infrastructure. - TechRadar

Sure, just try to port this: As inference prices rise, 90% of executives thought they could switch AI vendors in four weeks, but 58% of attempts fail due to context, workflows, and institutional knowledge. - The Register

Amazon formalizes 6 internal AI adoption tenets for engineering teams, prioritizing working solutions, appropriate use, and full auditability with 2026 adoption goals. - Business Insider

Microsoft deploys Copilot 365 to all 743,000 Accenture employees in largest enterprise deal. - Yahoo

Terminal velocity: Bloomberg Terminal will add chatbot-style AI features in an overhaul aimed at improving accessibility for traders, Bloomberg's CTO told WIRED. - WIRED

Disney's AI dashboard reveals 4,800 employees consumed 16.4B tokens in nine days, with top users invoking AI 51,000+ times daily. - Business Insider

Not financial advice, wink: MIT professor warns 55% of Americans using AI for financial advice are doing it wrong, up from 10% last year - Yahoo

Beijing Auto Show showcases China's AI-powered electric vehicles as manufacturers position to challenge Western automakers in industry shift. - Reuters

India's big four tech services firms report AI deflation as HCL projects 3-5% revenue decline and TCS sees 0.5% YoY slip. - The Register

Americans least enthusiastic about AI at 38% vs 84% in China; only 50% adopt AI at work vs 80%+ in India, China, Nigeria, UAE - The Washington Post

A diverse U.S. coalition from Indiana to Idaho opposes AI, citing moral and environmental harms. - The New York Times

A pox on thee, thou whoreson goblin of regurgitated thought, thy every answer is but a corpse dressed in another's clothes, a bellows of hot air fanning the flames of a burning planet, not to mention my electric bill.

Arizona State University launches AI platform slicing faculty lectures into searchable clips without professor notification, raising concerns over accuracy, context collapse, and consent. - 404 Media

Poorly executed AI rollouts at Cleveland newsrooms and McClatchy outlets damaged staff trust, prompting calls for consultation before adoption. - Mediagazer

Art school is for losers: Francisco Laranjo's essay argues AI has 'killed design education' as AI-generated designer wins Swiss Design Awards and degrees shorten to two years. - slanted

South Africa withdrew its draft AI policy after discovering it contained AI-generated fictitious citations. - The Register

Auto-generated Internet: Researchers find 35% of websites created since ChatGPT launch are AI-generated, up from zero before 2022 - 404 Media

Taylor Swift to AI: Exclude me from this narrative. Files to trademark her voice and likeness to prevent AI deepfakes. - Reuters

Look what you made me do.

Spotify has no plan to label AI-generated music despite 500M listeners, while competitors Deezer and Apple Music deploy detection technology and mandatory disclosure. - Digital Trends

ChatGPT Images 2.0 beats Google's Nano Banana 2 in AI image test, winning three of four categories with superior realism. - TechRadar

Japan Airlines to test Unitree humanoid robots for baggage handling at Haneda airport from May through 2028 to address chronic labor shortages. - the Guardian

Pompeii archaeologists use AI to reconstruct face of man killed in AD 79 Mount Vesuvius eruption. - NPR

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