📰 News China's ShengShu Raises $290M for 'General World Model' — Alibaba Backs a New Path to AGI
ShengShu's $290M raise signals China is investing aggressively in world models as an alternative route to AGI — one that could leapfrog text-only AI.
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📰 News AI Agents Hijacked via Prompt Injection — Bug Bounties Paid, No CVEs
Security researchers are getting paid bounties for prompt-injection flaws in commercial AI agents. The vendors are patching silently — no CVEs, no public disclosure.
📰 News The AI Build-Out Is Killing Cheap Smartphones — A DRAM Memory Crisis
Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are redirecting wafers from consumer electronics to HBM for AI accelerators. Cheap smartphones are about to get more expensive.
📰 News Anthropic Says Claude Now Writes Over 90% of Its Code and Wants the World to Have an AI Pause Button
Anthropic reports Claude writes over 90% of its own code, and is calling for a global AI pause mechanism. The proposal is short on details, long on ambition.
📰 News Anthropic Opposes AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Supports — Industry Split on Legal Accountability
OpenAI wants liability shields. Anthropic doesn't. The battle over Illinois SB 3444 could define AI accountability for a generation.
📰 News Google DeepMind Hires a Philosopher — His Job Title Is Literally 'Philosopher'
DeepMind's new hire has 'Philosopher' on his business card. Henry Shevlin will tackle machine consciousness and AGI readiness — because the question of whether AI can be aware just left the seminar room.
📰 News EU Delays AI Act: Regulation vs. Competitiveness
The EU has pushed back key AI Act compliance deadlines. Member states couldn't agree on enforcement — and US/China pressure is mounting.
📰 News EU Forces Meta to Open WhatsApp for AI Chatbot Interoperability
The EU has ordered Meta to open WhatsApp's AI chatbot interfaces to third-party AI assistants. Meta called it 'regulatory overreach' and is appealing.
📰 News Florida Sues OpenAI: AI's Big Tobacco Moment
Florida has filed suit against OpenAI over ChatGPT harms to minors, echoing tobacco-industry litigation from the 1990s. The case could define AI liability for a generation.
📰 News Gartner: 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by 2027
The agentic AI revolution is running into a very old problem: building a demo is easy. Running a production system is hard. Gartner says nearly half these projects won't survive to 2028.
📰 News Millions of AI Agents Imperiled by Critical Vulnerability
A supply-chain vulnerability in a popular agent framework has put millions of deployed AI agents at risk of remote takeover. Patches are rolling out.
📰 News NZ Ministry for Regulation Issues AI Guidance — May 2026
The NZ Ministry for Regulation has released its May 2026 AI guidance document. It's non-binding, but signals the direction of formal regulation to come.