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Anthropic secretly files IPO application with $965 billion valuation surpassing OpenAI; NVIDIA releases Cosmos 3 open-source physical AI multimodal model and Alpamayo 2 autonomous driving model; MiniMax M3 officially launches, reducing million-token context cost to 1/20 of previous generation and outperforming GPT-5.5 on SWE-Bench Pro
GitHub Copilot shifts to token-based billing starting June 1, triggering developer concerns over cost; US closes loophole banning export of Nvidia Rubin and other advanced AI chips to Chinese overseas entities; OpenAI model solves nearly 80-year-old math problem with independently verified proof
SoftBank invests €75 billion to build 5GW AI data centers in France, the largest AI infrastructure investment in Europe; DeepSeek releases 'Thinking with Visual Primitives' paradigm, achieving 66.9% accuracy in maze navigation, surpassing GPT-5.4; Kuaishou open-sources Keye-VL-2.0, pioneering DSA sparse attention in multimodal applications, outperforming 235B-parameter models with only 30B parameters
OpenAI's release of GPT-5.3-Codex and xAI's launch of grok-build intensify three-way competition in AI programming tools; SpaceX cuts IPO valuation to $1.8 trillion with listing set for June 12, AI division loses $6.36 billion annually; Gartner predicts global AI spending will reach $2.59 trillion in 2026, up 47%, as enterprises increasingly restrict AI use to control costs
Anthropic completes $65 billion funding, valuation reaches $965 billion surpassing OpenAI; Claude Opus 4.8 launches dynamic workflows capable of coordinating hundreds of sub-Agents in parallel; DeepSeek V3.2 open source model matches GPT-5 performance with 'thinking while using tools' capability
Cognition secures $1 billion in funding, valuation reaches $26 billion, ARR hits $492 million; Google warns hackers used AI to discover zero-day vulnerabilities undetectable by traditional scanners; ByteDance purchases millions of Qualcomm AI chips, 2026 AI capex may reach $70 billion
MiniMax launches ForgeTrain, the world's first AI-autonomously written production-grade pretraining framework, achieving 10% faster training than Megatron; PNAS study shows GPT-4.5 passes Turing test with 73% misidentification rate; Anthropic reaches $900 billion valuation surpassing OpenAI, preparing commercial release of Claude Mythos
Huawei unveils Tao Law replacing geometric scaling with time scaling, targeting equivalent 1.4nm by 2031; DeepSeek V4-Flash tops global LLM leaderboard with 3.43 trillion weekly token calls; Microsoft revokes engineers' Claude Code access due to token costs exceeding salaries, shifts to Copilot
Anthropic's three unreleased models Mythos-1/Opus 4.8/Sonnet 4.8 exposed on the same day, with Mythos-1 demonstrating far superior vulnerability detection capabilities; multiple internal test variants of GPT-5.6 discovered, suggesting a June release; NextEra acquires Dominion Energy for $67 billion, forming the largest power merger in U.S. history to meet AI data center energy demands