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Google commits up to $40B + 5GW of compute to Anthropic; the EU AI Act Digital Omnibus trilogue collapses on April 28 with 95 days to the August 2 deadline; Cerebras files for a May Nasdaq listing at $22-25B with a $20B OpenAI MRA for 750MW. Capital, regulation, and infrastructure pass through inflection in the same week.
Google→Anthropic up to $40B + 5GW. EU AI Act trilogue collapses 95 days from August 2. Cerebras CBRS IPO at $22-25B with a $20B OpenAI MRA. Three inflections in one week.
Cleveland-Cliffs signs 3-year enterprise AI deal with Palantir. Anthropic overtakes OpenAI at $30B ARR. Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 deploys at scale on Boston Dynamics Spot fleet. Deployment track records replace model benchmarks as the primary competitive axis.
Google absorbs Vertex AI with A2A v1.0 default and 200-model gateway. OpenAI replaces Custom GPTs with 60+ apps, MCP servers, free until May 6. AWS Registry + AgentCore CLI in 14 regions. Pricing pivots from per-token to per-seat / per-agent.
SK hynix 72% operating margin overtakes TSMC, HBM cumulative demand exceeds 3-year capacity. April 29 MSFT/GOOG/META $440B+ capex test. Samsung 4nm offsets TSMC CoWoS chokehold.
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 quantitatively neutralized Anthropic's Mythos non-deployment, locking in a bifurcated stack across model, compute, and governance. Meta and Microsoft cut 20,000+ in a single week. MATCH Act revision and GAIN AI Act in NDAA permanently layered congressional control above executive discretion.
MIT names mechanistic interpretability a 2026 breakthrough technology. Goldman Sachs: AI erases 16,000 US jobs/month. EU AI Act enforcement arrives August 2026.
Bezos' Project Prometheus nears a $10B close at $38B · Cursor's $2B round at $50B oversubscribed · MATCH Act April 16 revision + GAIN AI Act folded into NDAA.
Cursor crosses $2B ARR at $50B pre-money. Figure AI deploys at BMW Leipzig — first European physical-AI factory deployme
MCP RCE vulnerability exposes 150M downloads and 200K servers. A2A hits 150+ organizations with AP2 payments protocol. M
Anthropic Pentagon blacklist and White House emergency talks. TSMC Q1 profit surges 58% to $18B. BofA raises 2026 chip f
Anthropic landed an $800B offer, shipped AAR at 97% PGR, and released Opus 4.7 in the same week. Microsoft launched A2A
Anthropic ships Opus 4.7 with self-verification at unchanged pricing. Stanford AI Index confirms US-China model gap at 2
Goldman Sachs quantifies AI net job loss at 16K/month while 55% of companies regret AI layoffs. Anthropic's automated al
Anthropic draws VC offers up to $800B — capital consolidates toward three AI super-entities (OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX–x
Perplexity $500M ARR (+335%), Salesforce Agentforce $800M. Tesla Cybercab mass production begins; Figure AI deploys 90-minute humanoid assembly cycle at BMW.
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