Malta has signed the world's first national ChatGPT Plus deal, offering every citizen and resident aged 14 and over a free one-year subscription after completing a two-hour AI literacy course — a model the EU is watching closely.
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Malta has signed the world's first national ChatGPT Plus deal, offering every citizen and resident aged 14 and over a free one-year subscription after completing a two-hour AI literacy course — a model the EU is watching closely.
Mistral is in talks with European banks for a cybersecurity AI after Anthropic Mythos stayed blocked by US export controls, deepening EU sovereignty concerns.
EU AI Act Omnibus bans nudifier apps from December 2026 and grants pre-August AI systems a four-month watermarking and labelling grace period under Article 50.
Research, industry-wide trends, and moves not tied to a single organisation.
arXiv announced a one-year ban for researchers who submit papers containing incontrovertible evidence of unreviewed AI-generated content, targeting hallucinated citations, leftover chatbot prompts, and unfilled placeholder data rather than AI use itself.
Nine jurors deliberate in Musk v. Altman on charitable trust claims that could unwind OpenAI for-profit conversion and claw back investor equity if Musk wins.
Cerebras closed its Nasdaq debut up 68% at a $66 billion cap — the biggest US tech IPO since Uber 2019 — validating appetite for Nvidia rivals in AI chips.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, xAI — the organisations setting the pace.
OpenAI launched a personal finance preview for ChatGPT Pro users in the US, enabling connections to more than 12,000 financial institutions via Plaid and powered by GPT-5.5, putting the company in direct competition with Intuit and dedicated fintech apps.
OpenAI retained counsel for breach-of-contract claims after Siri-ChatGPT underperformed while Apple pays Google $1B a year to power Siri with Gemini instead.
OpenAI Codex coding agent previews on iOS and Android, letting developers review threads, approve commands, and redirect long-running agents from their phones.
Open-weight models, frameworks, runtimes — Llama, Mistral, vLLM, llama.cpp, and the rest of the stack.
Oppo's Multi-X team published X-OmniClaw on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 licence — an edge-native Android AI agent integrating camera, screen recognition, and voice that processes data on-device and calls cloud LLMs only for high-level reasoning, marking the first fully open-source multimodal mobile agent from a major Android OEM.
OpenAI gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b under Apache 2.0 hit 12 million downloads and set the open-weight benchmark other 2026 model releases compete against.
Mini Shai-Hulud worm hit TanStack, Mistral AI, and 170+ packages via GitHub Actions cache poisoning, touching 518 million cumulative npm and PyPI downloads.
Mistral is in talks with European banks for a cybersecurity AI after Anthropic Mythos stayed blocked by US export controls, deepening EU sovereignty concerns.
Mini Shai-Hulud worm hit TanStack, Mistral AI, and 170+ packages via GitHub Actions cache poisoning, touching 518 million cumulative npm and PyPI downloads.
EU AI Act Omnibus bans nudifier apps from December 2026 and grants pre-August AI systems a four-month watermarking and labelling grace period under Article 50.
EU Commission Article 50 draft covers chatbot disclosure, deepfake labelling, and watermarking, with a June 3 consultation and August 2 compliance deadline.
Benchmarks of GLM-5.1, Kimi K2.6, and MiniMax M2.7 show three distinct winners: GLM for front-end work, Kimi for agentic sessions, MiniMax for cost efficiency.
Cerebras closed its Nasdaq debut up 68% at a $66 billion cap — the biggest US tech IPO since Uber 2019 — validating appetite for Nvidia rivals in AI chips.
$660–690B in 2026 AI infrastructure capex from four hyperscalers has analysts warning free cash flow could collapse before the spending converts to revenue.
Anthropic and the Gates Foundation committed $200 million over four years to deploy Claude in global health, education, and agriculture in low-income countries.