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OpenAI Foundation commits $250 million to cushion AI's economic disruption, Microsoft renegotiates its OpenAI partnership terms, China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, Anthropic expands compute deals with Google and Broadcom, Google unveils new AI chips challenging NVIDIA, and Meta faces controversy over employee surveillance for AI training.
AI coding startup Cognition hits $25B valuation with a $1B raise, Meta rolls out paid subscriptions across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, Snowflake secures a $6B AWS chip deal, Robinhood opens AI agent trading, YouTube auto-labels AI videos, and DuckDuckGo surges 30% amid Google Search backlash.
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash becomes generally available; China imposes travel restrictions on AI researchers at Alibaba and DeepSeek; NVIDIA's revenue blows past Wall Street expectations as AI boom accelerates; OpenAI prepares confidential IPO filing; Anthropic's Code with Claude showcases the future of AI-assisted development.
DeepSeek makes its 75% API discount permanent, pressuring OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google on pricing. Anthropic acquires Stainless for over $300M to strengthen AI agent infrastructure. Meta and NVIDIA expand their GPU partnership with millions of additional AI chips. Google I/O 2026 unveils new AI models and personal agents. AI agent safety benchmarks reveal alarming results as none of 13 tested agents cleared a 40% safe completion rate.
Pope Leo XIV releases landmark AI encyclical with Anthropic's Chris Olah responding at the Vatican. Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash achieves near-flagship performance at a fraction of the cost. The US considers new permit requirements for NVIDIA and AMD AI chip exports. Plus: OpenAI's Altman on the jobs future, Google's AI-powered Search overhaul, Jensen Huang on education, and a breakthrough in photonic AI chips.
ClickUp's mass layoff signals a new phase of AI workforce replacement as the startup swaps hundreds of employees for thousands of AI agents. Meanwhile, SpaceX's IPO filing reveals over $500 million set aside for Grok-related litigation, Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical warning about AI and concentrated tech power, and Microsoft Research's Webwright web agent nearly doubles GPT-5.4's benchmark score. We also cover the US government's $2 billion quantum computing investment, OpenAI's global reputation push, and NVIDIA's latest linear attention breakthrough.