AI News Archive: May 31, 2026 — Part 1
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- SoftBank plans 75 billion euros of AI investments in France, as Europe struggles to catch up with U.S. and China
The Japanese tech giant plans to develop and operate 5 GW of AI data center capacity in France, with an initial 3.1 GW of facilities in the country's north.
Score: 85💰 MoneyMay 31, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/31/softbank-to-build-up-ai-data-centers-in-france-with-major-investment.html - US takes step to halt Nvidia AI chip shipments to Chinese firms outside China
US takes step to halt Nvidia AI chip shipments to Chinese firms outside China Reuters
- As the Pentagon pushes for battlefield AI, some military leaders urge caution
As the Pentagon pushes for battlefield AI, some military leaders urge caution AP News
Score: 82🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-military-hegseth-anthropic-d5fbaee17ee0bdb9738dbb808ea2d047 - Anthropic becomes world’s most valuable AI startup after $65bn funding boost
Anthropic becomes world’s most valuable AI startup after $65bn funding boost Arabian Business
- SpaceX, OpenAI Windfall Fuels Bets on Next-Wave Asian AI Winners
The hunt is on for companies that could benefit from the tailwinds of an unprecedented wave of stock offerings in the US, and investors are increasingly honing in on the Asian supply chain.
- How Iran’s military harnesses ChatGPT
Western AI models are turbocharging Tehran’s cyber operations, helping it develop malware and launch attacks
- AI crosses catalyst boundaries to uncover new route for green hydrogen
Discovering new catalysts is one of the central challenges in developing clean-energy technologies such as green hydrogen production. Yet catalyst discovery has traditionally remained confined within individual material families, limiting researchers' ability to transfer knowledge across chemically distinct systems.
- After the AI binge, companies balk at soaring bills
After the AI binge, companies balk at soaring bills The Japan Times
Score: 65🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/05/31/companies/ai-binge-companies-bills/ - RIL commits ₹10 lakh crore to AI-ready data centres
RIL Chairman had initially made the announcement about the major investment in AI infrastructure in his remarks at the AI Impact Summit.
- Opinion | We Should Starve Adversaries of AI Compute
China has already leveraged American chips for military training—all with an eye on defeating America on the battlefield.
Score: 64🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://www.wsj.com/opinion/we-should-starve-adversaries-of-ai-compute-88fc3bea?mod=rss_Technology - Special ops commander says we must be sure AI 'is going to deliver violence only where we intend it'
Special ops commander says we must be sure AI 'is going to deliver violence only where we intend it' Fortune
Score: 63🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://fortune.com/2026/05/31/special-operations-commander-frank-bradley-ai-targets-pete-hegseth-anthropic/ - Photon-driven synapse advances low-power neuromorphic systems
Modern artificial intelligence systems rely on moving large amounts of data between memory and processors, a design that limits speed and increases energy use. The human brain works differently: it combines memory and computation within synapses, allowing fast, efficient learning and perception. Replicating this approach in hardware is a central goal of neuromorphic computing, especially for tasks like vision, where most real-world information is gathered and processed.
Score: 62🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-photon-driven-synapse-advances-power.html - Zelenskyy makes a pitch to Silicon Valley's defense startups: Bring your AI, we'll bring the battle experience
Zelenskyy makes a pitch to Silicon Valley's defense startups: Bring your AI, we'll bring the battle experience Business Insider
Score: 61🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-zelenskyy-drones-ai-russia-war-silicon-valley-defense-tech-2026-5 - Brussels to Big Tech: Embrace sustainable AI or go away
Energy-hungry data centers must support the EU’s shift to carbon-free power, says Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen.
- Data centers could determine who wins the next war, and a compute shortage would be 'catastrophic'
Data centers could determine who wins the next war, and a compute shortage would be 'catastrophic' Fortune
Score: 60🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://fortune.com/2026/05/31/data-centers-ai-compute-future-warfare-national-security/ - This Trump-linked startup plans to put humanoid robots in the military
With ties to the Trump family, Foundation Robotics Labs is aiming to deploy humanoid robots in the military in the next 12 to 18 months.
Score: 59🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/30/humanoid-robots-ukraine-war-foundation-military-ai.html - Major gaps in online info for patients about AI and cancer
Major gaps in online info for patients about AI and cancer EurekAlert!
- OpenAI Codex Now Controls Windows PCs Autonomously for Testing and Bug Hunting
OpenAI Codex autonomously controls Windows PCs for testing
Score: 58🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://opentools.ai/news/openai-codex-windows-11-computer-use-autonomous-2026 - My guide to the IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic — including the one I really want to buy
These three expected deals will define 2026 and maybe even 2027. Here's my advice on how to play them.
- China's AI startup MiniMax explores Shanghai STAR Market listing
China's AI startup MiniMax explores Shanghai STAR Market listing Reuters
- In standing up for human dignity over AI, Pope Leo sets the example for other world leaders | Editorial
In standing up for human dignity over AI, Pope Leo sets the example for other world leaders | Editorial Inquirer.com
- Leo Shows He’s the Planet’s Pope by Taking on AI
The leader of the Catholic Church called artificial intelligence a threat to humanity in his first encyclical
Score: 57🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/pope-leo-xiv-encyclical-ai-planet-1235569872/ - The High-Stakes Hunt for the Next Amazon in the AI Haystack
With artificial intelligence winners and losers changing places so quickly, it isn’t just about where to invest, but also when.
- The $500 Million AI Mistake Every Company Is Rushing to Avoid
AI sticker shock is rattling enterprise tech. The new bottom line: Cap your tokens—or your model will devour your cash flow.
Score: 57🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://www.inc.com/kevin-haynes/the-500-million-ai-mistake-every-company-is-rushing-to-avoid/91353205 - Claude Opus 4.8 Tops GPT-5.5 With Dynamic Workflows and 4x Better Honesty
Claude Opus 4.8 outperforms GPT-5.5 with dynamic workflows
Score: 56🤖 ModelsMay 31, 2026https://opentools.ai/news/claude-opus-4-8-dynamic-workflows-benchmarks-2026 - Major Teachers Union Pleads With Elementary Schools to Stop Giving Young Kids AI
"If we don't find a way to call this out from an education perspective, I fear that we will lose a generation of kids." The post Major Teachers Union Pleads With Elementary Schools to Stop Giving Young Kids AI appeared first on Futurism .
Score: 56🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teachers-union-schools-kids-ai - Venture Capital Turns to Hardware Bets as AI Threatens Software Companies
Investors are betting big on infrastructure and “physical AI,” enticed by the prospect of new revenue opportunities.
- The Sequence Radar #869: Last Week in AI: The Token Becomes the Unit of Account — Opus 4.8, OpenRouter, Cognition, Snowflake, and a papal warning
Opus 4.8 and remarkable fundraising events.
- OpenAI brings trading to ChatGPT
OpenAI integrates trading into ChatGPT.
- AI is turning energy into the hottest business in America
The AI boom is pushing companies across the economy — from tech giants to automakers — deep into the energy business. Why it matters : The scramble for electricity has become the gold rush beneath the AI boom, creating enormous financial value and enormous risk if demand falls short. Driving the news : Electricity — long treated as a cheap, abundant commodity — is suddenly emerging as one of the most valuable strategic assets in business. "Everyone to some extent is either dependent on energy as a core input or they see energy as a huge opportunity," said Brian Janous, who was Microsoft's first energy hire 15 years ago and is now co-founder of data center developer Cloverleaf Infrastructure. The latest : Ford unveiled earlier this month its expansion into energy storage for data centers and other large power users. It launched a new subsidiary called Ford Energy in response to what it calls "the massive demand for domestic energy storage." Follow the money : Investors are increasingly rewarding companies pivoting to — or doubling down on — the power behind the AI boom. A few recent highlights: Ford's stock price rose to its highest level in three years after its rollout of the $2 billion energy business. Bloom Energy , long seen as a niche energy player whose tech can deliver on-site power fast , saw its stock price skyrocket more than 1,200% over the past year. Fervo Energy , a geothermal startup once viewed as speculative climate tech, surged after going public earlier this month as Wall Street hunts for new electricity sources to feed data centers. GE Vernova booked $2.4 billion in electric equipment orders for data centers in the first quarter alone, more than it made all of last year in equivalent sales. Its stock has gone up about 60% this year. "The energy behind the [artificial] intelligence is invisible to most people, but it's enormous," said Andy Power, president and CEO of Digital Realty, one of the world's largest and most established data center companies. "But this isn't new for those of us who've been building digital infrastructure for more than 20 years," Power said in a statement to Axios. "What's new is the pace. Utilities are inundated with applications for power and doing triage on who's real." Reality check : Beneath the surging stock prices, trouble is mounting. Opposition to data centers is intensifying rapidly, and some of the biggest projects may never come to fruition. "A lot of people are going to lose a lot of money in this space," Janous said — not because of a lack of demand, but because so many mega projects are chasing that demand. He pointed to a troubled project in Texas that bills itself as the largest data center proposal in the world and another proposal in Utah by celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary. Friction point : The number of data centers canceled after pushback reached a record high in the first quarter of this year, according to data by Heatmap Pro . The canceled projects accounted for more than $40 billion in investment, the analysis found. "It's getting a lot worse," Janous said about the opposition, sounding far more negative than he did in an Axios interview from February. He cited community concerns about water use, air pollution and noise as top worries. Between the lines : Every gold rush creates problems — and new businesses. The AI power boom is now spawning a generation of startups building products for data centers, some of which could help address community concerns. How it works : Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta are teaming up with nonprofit investor Elemental Impact to accelerate new technologies using data centers as test cases. Those technologies include advanced cooling, energy storage and low-carbon building materials. What we're watching : If these startups scale, some could help address concerns surrounding data centers, particularly around water use and air pollution. The bottom line : For decades, energy was an input. In the AI era, it's becoming the product.
Score: 54🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://www.axios.com/2026/05/31/ai-energy-business-companies-storage-supplies - Elon’s A.I. Pivot & Anthropic’s Halo Effect
Elon’s A.I. Pivot & Anthropic’s Halo Effect Puck
Score: 54🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://puck.news/newsletter_content/elons-ai-pivot-anthropics-halo-effect/ - China just told its tech giants to stop fighting on price and start investing in AI
A top-level Communist Party publication has signaled a shift in how Beijing intends to govern its largest internet platforms. A draft commentary set to appear in the Qiushi journal on Monday says the focus will be on balancing support for growth with enhanced regulatory oversight. The message is directed at companies including Alibaba, Meituan, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Score: 54🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://thenextweb.com/news/china-platform-regulation-ai-investment-qiushi-signal - Apple AI glasses launch pushed back to late 2027, Vision Air to arrive by 2029: report
Apple has been working on AI smart glasses for a little while, both to compete against Meta Ray-Bans and to provide a hardware platform for Siri and its Visual Intelligence features. While they were originally set to be announced at the end of this year and debut early next year, that’s now been delayed, with a launch now set to take place by the end of 2027, per Bloomberg . On the flip side of things, a cheaper and lighter version of Apple Vision Pro, dubbed Vision Air, may arrive as soon as 2028, potentially 2029. more…
Score: 53🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/31/apple-glasses-launching-late-2027-with-vision-air-to-follow-by-2029/ - Your creative work, supercharged: Adobe and NVIDIA partner to deliver powerful experiences with RTX Spark
Your creative work, supercharged: Adobe and NVIDIA partner to deliver powerful experiences with RTX Spark Adobe
- The British doctor taking on soaring IVF prices with robots
The British doctor taking on soaring IVF prices with robots The Telegraph
Score: 53🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/31/ivf-pricing-scandal-fertility-robotics/ - California State University Made a Huge Deal With OpenAI and It’s Been a Disaster
Students may use it, but many of them don't like it. The post California State University Made a Huge Deal With OpenAI and It’s Been a Disaster appeared first on Futurism .
Score: 52🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/california-state-university-openai-deal-disaster - Gautam Adani says Adani Group has moved past US legal challenges, now focusing on AI-driven infra
In his annual letter to shareholders, Adani emphasized that the group remains deeply committed to rapid expansion despite facing intense scrutiny over the past year
- Chinese EV makers shift focus from price wars to AI capability: Morgan Stanley
The focus of competition for Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) is shifting from prices to artificial intelligence capability, as carmakers try to manage weakening demand amid tightened regulations, according to Morgan Stanley. The push in AI would likely bring models with conditionally autonomous driving capability, or Level 3 (L3), to market, said Tim Hsiao, head of the Greater China auto and shared mobility research team at Morgan Stanley, in a recent interview with the South China Morning Post....
- Nvidia-powered Windows PCs to make debut at Computex 2026: Report
Nvidia-powered Windows PCs to make debut at Computex 2026: Report
- Rivian thinks Apple CarPlay is already obsolete and AI is the reason why
Rivian says AI-powered vehicle assistants could eventually replace Apple CarPlay by offering deeper integration and more natural interaction inside future cars.
Score: 51🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/rivian-thinks-apple-carplay-is-already-obsolete-and-ai-is-the-reason-why/ - Korea should join frontier AI race dominated by US, China: ICT minister
South Korea should now try to build frontier artificial intelligence models on par with those of the US and China, Deputy Prime Minister and ICT Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said Friday, calling for a broader AI strategy that goes beyond industrial applications. “We have reached a point where Korea, too, should take on the challenge of building frontier AI models at a level comparable to those of the US and China,” Bae said at a press conference in Seoul marking the government’s first year in office.
- Wix cuts 1,000 employees in latest AI-fueled layoff
Wix cofounder and CEO Avishai Abrahami announced on Thursday that it's laying off 20 percent of its staff.
Score: 50🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://mashable.com/tech/wix-cuts-1000-employees-in-latest-ai-fueled-layoff - Groupon Cuts 400 Jobs, Nearly 25% of Workforce, in AI-Native Restructuring
Groupon lays off 400 jobs in AI-driven restructuring
Score: 50🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://opentools.ai/news/groupon-layoffs-400-jobs-ai-native-project-foundry-2026 - Major Companies Reconsider AI Costs
Chipmakers are by far the hottest stocks in the market, but their recent surge is lending urgency to the debate over whether investors are buying into an artificial-intelligence bubble that could be due to burst. Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership Research Fellow Gautam Mukunda joined David Gura and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)
Score: 50🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-05-31/major-companies-reconsider-ai-costs-video - I was starting my first job in September — then they gave it to AI
A university student's graduate job offer was withdrawn because of the company's push for artificial intelligence. A boutique consultancy which specialises in commercial due diligence offered four graduates analyst roles in December 2025 t ... (report_number: 7330)
Score: 49🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/graduate-jobs-alan-milburn-neets-wmgsjw7df - iOS 27 release date: When will your iPhone actually get Apple's next-gen Siri AI upgrade
Apple's WWDC will unveil iOS 27 during the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2026 conference on 8th June. Here's when the update will arrive on your iPhone
- ‘Goodbye, Copilot’: Microsoft faces backlash as Github Copilot ends flat-rate AI pricing from June 1
Microsoft is changing GitHub Copilot's pricing from flat rate to a usage-based system starting from June 1st.
- NBA will put AI in charge to tackle bad ref calls and fan fury
Bad referee calls have become one of the NBA’s most frustrating recurring storylines, especially during the playoffs when every possession gets dissected online within seconds. Now, the league appears ready to lean much harder into artificial intelligence in an attempt to reduce controversial officiating decisions and calm growing fan anger around inconsistent calls. According to […]
Score: 49🌐 MovesMay 31, 2026https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/nba-will-put-ai-in-charge-to-tackle-bad-ref-calls-and-fan-fury/ - Meta is building a new AI pendant designed to record and transcribe your daily conversations: Report
Meta plans to launch an AI pendant to recover losses in its Reality Labs division. The device is said to use the technology from Limitless, the AI startup that the company bought last year.
- Alibaba Group signs 6-year AI deal with Uefa, will bring 360 replay tech to major events
Alibaba Group and Uefa are bringing the Chinese giant’s 360-degree replay technology to football, after signing an exclusive six-year deal covering several major tournaments in Europe. The partnership, which has been widely reported in state media, will see the sport’s regional governing body join the International Olympic Committee and NBA China, among others, in working with Qwen, Alibaba’s artificial intelligence model. With European football accelerating its digital transformation and fan...