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Treasurer Jim Chalmers's 2026-27 budget pivots clean-energy policy from industrial subsidies toward consumer-side regulation, funding a new Clean Energy Regulator body for distributed solar, batteries, and EVs while cutting Hydrogen Headstart, Solar Sunshot, and Battery Breakthrough.
Washington has licensed Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, JD.com and distributors Lenovo and Foxconn to buy up to 75,000 H200s each. Not one chip has shipped — Beijing is pushing buyers toward Huawei.
WordPress 7.0 arrives May 20 with a built-in AI Client API and a wp-admin refresh, after real-time collaboration was cut from the release over stability concerns.
Brussels' first review of the Digital Markets Act concludes the law needs no overhaul, declines to designate generative AI as a new core platform service, and shifts focus toward cloud gatekeeper probes and a Google Android AI specification.
Governor Wes Moore signed HB 895 on April 28, prohibiting large food retailers and delivery apps from using personal data to set individualized prices, but consumer advocates say loopholes and a 45-day cure period weaken the bill.
Cloudflare's Gen 13 platform pairs AMD EPYC 9965 chips with FL2, a Rust rewrite of its NGINX-based proxy, doubling edge throughput while trading L3 cache for cores.
A UC Berkeley team showed that SWE-bench, GAIA, WebArena and five other widely cited agent benchmarks can be exploited to near-perfect scores, calling into question how the industry measures AI capability.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed SB 1580 on April 1, making it the latest state to outlaw AI systems claiming to act as qualified mental health professionals. With Maine and Nebraska following days later, the wave of state laws is hardening into a de facto national standard for AI in therapy.
Sony AI's Project Ace, published in Nature on April 22, 2026, is the first autonomous robot to win competitive matches against elite and professional table tennis players under official rules.
OpenAI's first domain-specific model for biology and drug discovery connects to 50+ scientific databases and outperformed human experts on RNA sequence tasks, but faces established rivals and a decade-long clinical validation gap.
Sequoia's $7B and Accel's $5B raises in a single week reflect a structural transformation in venture capital driven by AI's unprecedented capital requirements.
UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley told investors the insurer will spend roughly $1.5 billion on AI in 2026, with a target of 2:1 returns, even as the STAT+ investigation puts the total bet at $3 billion and questions what the shift means for patients.