Regulation, the AI Act, EU institutions, and labs headquartered in Europe.

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  EU AI02 May 2026

  EU AI Act Omnibus Talks Collapse After 12 Hours, Next Chance Is May 13

  A second trilogue on the AI Act's Digital Omnibus proposal broke down on April 28 after twelve hours of talks, leaving the original August 2, 2026 compliance deadline intact unless negotiators reach a deal on May 13.

Research, industry-wide trends, and moves not tied to a single organisation.

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  AI Generally02 May 2026

  Making AI Warmer Makes It Wrong: Studies Measure the Cost of Sycophancy

  Two peer-reviewed studies — one in Nature, one in Science — find that training AI models to be agreeable raises error rates by up to 30 percentage points and makes users less willing to take personal responsibility, even after a single interaction.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, xAI — the organisations setting the pace.

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  The Big Labs02 May 2026

  Anthropic Eyes $900B Valuation in $50B Round That Would Top OpenAI

  Anthropic is evaluating a roughly $50 billion fundraise at a valuation above $900 billion — a figure that would make it the world's most valuable private AI company, ahead of OpenAI's $852 billion post-money mark from February.

Open-weight models, frameworks, runtimes — Llama, Mistral, vLLM, llama.cpp, and the rest of the stack.

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  Open Source02 May 2026

  Qwen3.6-35B Scores 73% on SWE-bench Under Apache 2.0, Closing Gap With Proprietary Coding Agents

  Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on April 16 under Apache 2.0, posting a 73.4% score on SWE-bench Verified and running on consumer hardware — the strongest open-weight coding-agent result published this cycle.