AI News Archive: May 29, 2026 — Part 1
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- Anthropic Raises at $965 Billion Valuation, Eclipsing OpenAI
Anthropic PBC raised $65 billion in a funding round that valued the artificial intelligence company at $965 billion including the new investment, eclipsing rival OpenAI’s value for the first time. The funding, announced Thursday, was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital. Each of the lead investors put in more than $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Sequoia declined to comment. The other three firms did not respond to a request for comment. For more, we speak with Mandeep Singh, Global Head of Tech Research for Bloomberg Intelligence. (Source: Bloomberg)
Score: 88💰 MoneyMay 29, 2026https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-05-29/anthropic-raises-at-965b-valuation-eclipsing-openai-video - Boston Children’s uses AI to unlock new diagnoses
Boston Children’s Hospital uses OpenAI technology to improve patient care, reduce operational burden, and help diagnose more than 40 rare disease cases.
- Anthropic upgrades Claude AI with Opus 4.8: What's new in flagship model
Claude Opus 4.8 arrives with benchmark improvements, enhanced AI agent capabilities, and new features designed for developers, enterprises, and everyday users
- Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay the cost to power AI
Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay the cost to power AI AP News
Score: 80🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-data-centers-taxes-tech-ohio-4d56561a14f9b0d00553001e8c2757a3 - UK and France launch landmark biomedical and AI health alliance to accelerate research into major diseases
UK and France launch landmark biomedical and AI health alliance to accelerate research into major diseases University of Oxford
- Dell shares soar 30% as AI server demand, price hikes power stellar quarter
Dell shares soar 30% as AI server demand, price hikes power stellar quarter Reuters
- CNN is the latest media company to sue Perplexity
CNN is the latest media company hauling Perplexity into court.
Score: 72🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.engadget.com/2183900/cnn-is-the-latest-media-company-to-sue-perplexity/ - Anthropic to Widely Release Mythos-Level AI Models Within Weeks, 7 Weeks After Deeming Them Too Dangerous
Anthropic to release high-level AI models after deeming them too dangerous
- Samsung, SK hynix back Anthropic in $65B round, paving way for chip deal
Anthropic logo is seen in this illustration taken March 1 [REUTERS/YONHAP] Samsung Electronics and SK hynix both participated in Anthropic's latest Series H funding round, which valued the U.S. AI company at $965 billion. Samsung's involvement is expected to lay the groundwork for a chip design or manufacturing deal to produce Anthropic's AI chips. Anthropic announced Thursday that it has formed partnerships with the world's three largest memory suppliers — Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and Micron — as the company's computing and memory demands continue to grow. The round raised $65 billion in total, with $15 billion coming from cloud giants and hyperscalers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Broadcom. "[Their] technologies play a critical role in the world's supply of memory, storage and logic chips," Anthropic said in a statement. "As demand for Claude continues to grow, these relationships will help us scale our compute reliably at the pace our customers need." Of the three memory suppliers, Samsung is the only one that also designs and manufactures logic chips — processors such as CPUs and GPUs. The company has already secured Tesla and Nvidia as foundry clients, and is expected to begin producing Tesla's AI5 and AI6 chips at its Taylor, Texas, plant beginning next year, following a $16.5 billion deal signed in July 2025. Samsung is also manufacturing Groq's latest inference chip, the Nvidia Groq 3 LPU, which is expected to begin shipping in the second half of this year. With the latest round, Anthropic is now the most valuable private AI company, surpassing rival OpenAI, whose most recent pre-money valuation stood at $730 billion. The round was co-led by Capital Group, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, GIC, Iconiq and XN, with significant participation from AMP PBC, Baillie Gifford, Blackstone, Brookfield, and others. To feed its rapidly growing compute needs, Anthropic has locked in 5 gigawatts of capacity from AWS, an additional 5 gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity from Google and Broadcom, and is also renting GPU capacity from SpaceX's Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 — xAI's GPU supercluster. BY LEE JAE-LIM [lee.jaelim@joongang.co.kr]
- AI-generated child abuse material surges in Europe, data shows
Online child exploitation is increasing across Europe, alongside AI-generated abuse content. Which countries are emerging as hotspots for abuse material?
Score: 69🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026http://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/29/ai-generated-child-abuse-material-surges-in-europe-data-shows - AI Has Made Memory Chips More Valuable Than Oil
Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix are cheap despite their $1 trillion valuations if long-term contracts stabilize the sector.
Score: 69🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai-has-made-memory-chips-more-valuable-than-oil-3b6976d8?mod=rss_Technology - A Stanford Study Exposes Massive Racial Bias in AI Hiring Tools Used by 90 Percent of Businesses
Researchers warn that a growing ‘algorithmic monoculture’ is locking qualified minority candidates out of the job market.
- Samsung begins supplying world's first 12-layer HBM4E samples
Samsung Electronics said Friday it has begun supplying samples of the world's first 12-layer HBM4E chip to major customers, marking its latest push to gain ground in the AI memory market. The launch comes just three months after Samsung began mass shipments of HBM4, as memory makers accelerate development of next-generation chips to serve growing demand from AI models and hyperscale data centers. Samsung said the 12-layer HBM4E supports per-pin speeds of 14 to 16 gigabits per second, more than 2
- Taiwan raises 2026 GDP growth outlook to 16-year high on AI boom
Taiwan raises 2026 GDP growth outlook to 16-year high on AI boom Nikkei Asia
Score: 68🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/taiwan-raises-2026-gdp-growth-outlook-to-16-year-high-on-ai-boom - EU seeks to 'intensify' talks with U.S. on advanced cyber AI models, official tells CNBC, amid Mythos concerns
Anthropic's Mythos model, which has advanced cyber abilities, has prompted a wave of concern from governments and businesses.
- One company spent half a billion dollars on Claude in a single month: Report comes as AI costs climb
More and more companies are realizing that AI might not be worth its sky-high price tag—at least, not without limits. One company reportedly learned that the hard way, after its employees blew through $500 million in spending on artificial intelligence in just one month. An AI consultant told Axios that one of their clients recently spent half a billion dollars in a month on Claude licenses from Anthropic. How did the company rack up such an insanely high bill? Its employees apparently had no limit on how many licenses they could use, leaving them free to splurge on as much Claude as possible. That means expensive AI tools could be deployed for uses that humans could easily and quickly accomplish themselves, like checking the weather, as one CTO told Axios their employees were doing. The cautionary tale quickly went viral on social media, with users marveling at how spending half a billion dollars on AI could even be possible. “5 private jets. 2 superyachts. One whole island. Gone. Vaporized into tokens,” one user reflected . “Rest in peace to whoever had to send that invoice.” “I wish I could be in the meeting with the guy who spent half a BILLION dollars in Claude credits in a month,” wrote another . “Like, what do you do? Do you fire them?” An AI-spending reckoning Though the example from Axios is extreme, it reflects a trend across industries when it comes to AI usage. Companies that were previously all-in on AI are cutting back on their Claude spending, saying that the high costs aren’t equating to high profits or productivity . That includes Microsoft, which is ditching its Claude Code licenses in favor of GitHub’s Copilot CLI, and Uber, which blew through its 2026 budget for Claude Code by April. That led Uber’s operations chief, Andrew Macdonald, to say “the link is not there” between increased AI usage and proportional product for customers. Companies that had previously encouraged and even incentivized AI usage are changing their tune, too: Amazon is shutting down an employee-made leaderboard that tracked AI token usage. Though Amazon previously told Fast Company it never set targets for employees’ AI usage , anonymous workers told the Financial Times that “there is just so much pressure to use these tools.” Now, however, Amazon is formally shutting down so-called “tokenmaxxing” culture within the company. Earlier this week, Amazon senior vice president Dave Treadwell asked staff not to “use AI just for the sake of using AI.” “Use AI to help you solve customer problems, to help you solve business problems, to innovate,” he added.
- China AI Developer Zhipu Hits Record $112 Billion Valuation
China AI Developer Zhipu Hits Record $112 Billion Valuation Caixin Global
- Nvidia is investing billions into this emerging technology that could change the AI industry
Photonics is considered to be a more efficient alternative to the current process of transferring data using electricity, which could be crucial to the AI boom.
- Airbus, BMW Partner with Mistral AI as Europe Pushes for AI Independence
The partnerships highlight Europe’s push to build trusted AI US alternatives for aerospace, defence and automotive industries.
Score: 66🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news/airbus-bmw-partner-with-mistral-ai-as-europe-pushes-for-ai-independence - X-Square Robot Unveils WALL-WM, the World's First Event-Level Prediction Embodied AI World Model
X-Square Robot has released WALL-WM, the world's first event-level prediction embodied AI world model that shifts from frame-by-frame prediction to semantic event understanding, enabling robots to grasp task objectives rather than memorizing pixel sequences.
Score: 66🤖 ModelsMay 29, 2026https://pandaily.com/x-square-robot-wall-wm-event-level-world-model-may2026 - TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs — company looks to ease China's dependence on US chipmakers
TikTok owner Bytedance reportedly developing its own custom CPUs in a bid to reduce costs and dependence from US chipmakers
- SEA’s AI infrastructure sector draws US$1.2B as deal activity reaches record high
Equity funding into Southeast Asia’s AI infrastructure sector has reached approximately US$1.2 billion, with deal volumes hitting an all-time high in 2025, according to a new report from market intelligence platform Tracxn published this month. The report, which tracks disclosed funding across Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand between 2015 and 2026, found that meaningful capital […] The post SEA’s AI infrastructure sector draws US$1.2B as deal activity reaches record high appeared first on e27 .
- Booming AI Revenues Boost Inference Startups to Decacorn Status
Plus, Anthropic tops OpenAI in valuation & a new book by our editor at large discusses the rise & fall of tech's San Francisco values
- OpenAI is giving away its life sciences AI model to help governments prepare for the next pandemic
OpenAI is offering its life sciences model GPT-Rosalind for free through the new Rosalind Biodefense program, aimed at pandemic preparedness and biodefense. Early partners include Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Johns Hopkins, and vaccine initiative CEPI. Applications are open worldwide. The article OpenAI is giving away its life sciences AI model to help governments prepare for the next pandemic appeared first on The Decoder .
- The £500m plan to stop Britain becoming America’s ‘AI vassal state’
The £500m plan to stop Britain becoming America’s ‘AI vassal state’ The Telegraph
Score: 65🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/05/29/500m-stop-britain-being-americas-ai-vassal-state/ - Microsoft wants Copilot to answer all your health-related questions and store your medical records
Microsoft's Copilot Health lets US Microsoft 365 subscribers connect Apple Health, medical records from over 50,000 providers, and get personalized health insights.
- Omniscient Secures USD 27.2M Series D to Accelerate Commercialization of AI-Enabled Brain Technology
Omniscient Secures USD 27.2M Series D to Accelerate Commercialization of AI-Enabled Brain Technology markets.businessinsider.com
- The Morning After: Apple's dramatic Siri overhaul is coming and it might look like this
The biggest news stories of the week: An early look at the new version of Siri, reviews of Google's new wearable, GoPro's newest action cam and more!
- AI companies want power fast. The electric grid's gatekeeper wants them to learn the rules.
The tech industry has shown a Trump-era command of Washington politics. But it's had a steeper learning curve mastering the rules that govern the U.S. electric grid.
Score: 62🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/29/how-big-tech-learned-to-speak-ferc-00939329 - Meta Memo Outlines Ambitious Hardware Plans, Including New AI Pendant
Meta Memo Outlines Ambitious Hardware Plans, Including New AI Pendant The Information
Score: 62🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-memo-outlines-ambitious-hardware-plans-including-new-ai-pendant - Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets
Executives are scrambling to track returns on AI investments as the bill for massive computing needs comes due.
- Strategic Implications of Deploying Artificial Intelligence in Defence
Examines strategic implications of AI in defence, analyzing how AI could shift the offence-defence balance, accelerate proliferation, empower non-state actors, and intensify great power competition.
- China’s ByteDance Developing New AI Chips Like Those from Nvidia Partner Groq
China’s ByteDance Developing New AI Chips Like Those from Nvidia Partner Groq The Information
Score: 61🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chinas-bytedance-developing-new-ai-chips-like-nvidia-partner-groq - New Colorado law limits AI chatbot interactions with kids after Gov. Jared Polis signs bill
New Colorado law limits AI chatbot interactions with kids after Gov. Jared Polis signs bill The Denver Post
Score: 60🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.denverpost.com/2026/05/29/colorado-chatbot-regulations-ai-new-law/ - Samsung's shares surge as much as 6% after company ships next-generation AI memory chip samples
Shares of Samsung Electronics surged after the company began shipping HBM4E chip samples to its customers globally.
Score: 60🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/29/samsung-hbm4e-chip-samples-ai-memory.html - Samsung Highlights Vision for AI-Powered Connected Care at VivaTech 2026
Samsung Electronics will showcase its vision for AI-powered connected care at VivaTech 2026, running June 17 to 20 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. Under the theme “Open Invitation to a Healthier Tomorrow,” the company will demonstrate how intelligent, connected experiences can support more proactive and preventive approaches to wellness. Celebrating its 10th edition this […]
Score: 60🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-highlights-its-vision-for-ai-powered-connected-care-at-vivatech-2026 - National Growth Fund to invest $535mn in AI startup FuriosaAI
National Growth Fund to invest $535mn in AI startup FuriosaAI pulse.mk.co.kr
- Modernizing Public Health with Enterprise AI
Blog post on modernizing public health using Enterprise AI
- Dublin’s AI TaxTech startup Fonoa raises €94.4 million Series C and buys PwC’s tax platform
Fonoa, a Dublin-based AI tax operating system for global businesses, has raised €94.4 million ($110 million) in Series C funding and acquired Indirect Tax Edge (Edge) from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The funding round was led by Headline and included participation from new investors Eurazeo and Forestay Capital, alongside existing investors Index Ventures, OMERS, Coatue, and Dawn […] The post Dublin’s AI TaxTech startup Fonoa raises €94.4 million Series C and buys PwC’s tax platform appeared first on EU-Startups .
- 'Our ability to achieve orbital AI at scale depends on our ability to access a sufficient number of AI chips, significantly more than are currently available to us': SpaceX admits that getting data centers in space may fall short due to a lack of chips
SpaceX admitted its orbital AI ambitions depend heavily upon scarce GPUs and uncertain semiconductor partnerships surrounding the TeraFab project.
- OpenAI Has Discussed Adding Citigroup, JPMorgan to Bank Lineup for IPO
OpenAI has spoken with banks including Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. about working on its upcoming initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.
- AI’s next pharma challenge: tackling costly and risky clinical trials
AI has transformed the search for new medicines. Now drug companies are betting it can fix the slow, expensive process of testing them in humans. Ask a pharmaceutical company about the current approach to clinical trials and you’re likely to hear a chorus of complaints about a broken and dysfunctional system. It takes on average at least a decade and roughly $1-2 billion (CHF790 million-1.6 billion) to develop a new drug. Around 60-70% of that time is spent in the three phases of human testing. The longer a clinical trial takes, the longer it takes for that medicine to reach patients. To make matters worse, companies often waste time and money on trials for drugs that aren’t ultimately approved by regulators. For every 100 drugs that begin human trials, about 90 aren’t given the green light because the tests fail to prove the medicines are safe or effective. “The industry has just accepted that risk and failure are a part of drug development because there has been no other option,” ...
- Tesla is starting production of its Cybercab robotaxi
CEO Elon Musk confirmed the launch on Tesla's Q1 2026 earnings call, though he warned initial output will be slow before ramping late in the year
- Exclusive: Microsoft is building a super app that combines coding, chat, and other Copilot AI tools
Exclusive: Microsoft is building a super app that combines coding, chat, and other Copilot AI tools Fortune
- Xynova Raises Hundreds of Millions in Series A for Dexterous Robot Hand Flex2
Xynova, the Chinese full-stack dexterous manipulation technology company, has completed a Series A funding round worth hundreds of millions of RMB. The round wa...
- Apple may rely on Google Cloud, Nvidia compute to power some AI features
Apple may reportedly combine on-device AI with Google Cloud and Nvidia compute technology to power future Apple Intelligence features and advanced Siri requests
- After Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M
Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios.
Score: 58💰 MoneyMay 29, 2026https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/29/after-nvidias-20b-not-acqui-hire-ai-chip-startup-groq-reportedly-raising-650m/ - Tesla Robotaxi fleet in Texas less than one-tenth size of Waymo's, filings reveal
Tesla has registered 42 automated vehicles in its driverless Robotaxi service in Texas, putting it far behind Waymo in the state.
Score: 58🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/tesla-robotaxi-fleet-texas-one-tenth-size-of-waymos-filings-reveal.html - Waymo dominates autonomous vehicle registrations as Tesla trails behind
A new law and AV tracker tool gives the clearest accounting yet of how many robotaxis and self-driving trucks are in Texas.
Score: 58🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/waymo-dominates-texas-autonomous-vehicle-registrations-as-tesla-trails-behind/ - All-New Waymo Robotaxi Finally Debuts
The new self-driving vehicle took four years from concept to execution.
Score: 58🌐 MovesMay 29, 2026https://aibusiness.com/generative-ai/all-new-waymo-robotaxi-finally-debuts