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Trump Lands in Beijing With Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Elon Musk — AI Chips and Export Controls Top the Agenda
President Trump arrived in Beijing for a three-day summit with Xi Jinping, accompanied by 17 tech executives including Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Apple's Tim Cook, and Tesla's Elon Musk. Nvidia's ability to sell AI chips in China and the trajectory of the US-China tech cold war are the central issues.
Microsoft May 2026 Patch Tuesday: 120 CVEs Fixed, Word Preview-Pane RCE Added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
Microsoft patched 120 vulnerabilities in its May 2026 update cycle, including CVE-2026-40364, a critical Word RCE that fires without the victim opening a file. CISA added it to the KEV catalog today, giving federal agencies three weeks to patch.
OpenAI Launches Daybreak — GPT-5.5-Cyber Platform Brings AI to Vulnerability Detection and Patch Validation
OpenAI's Daybreak platform deploys GPT-5.5-Cyber and Codex Security to let security teams scan codebases, model threat paths, and auto-generate patches in minutes. It directly competes with Anthropic's Project Glasswing initiative.
Intel Goes All-In on 18A at COMPUTEX 2026: Panther Lake, Nova Lake (52 Cores), and 288-Core Clearwater Forest Xeon
Intel is previewing its entire next-era chip lineup at COMPUTEX 2026, with CEO Lip-Bu Tan headlining a full slate of 18A-node products: Panther Lake for AI handhelds, Nova Lake for desktops, and Clearwater Forest for servers. NVIDIA is also at the show with its N1 SoC for Windows-on-Arm.
MiniMax Quietly Bans Commercial Use of Its M2.7 Agent Model — Developers Call It 'Faux Open Source'
MiniMax changed the license on its M2.7 agentic coding model from MIT to a restrictive 'Modified-MIT' that requires written authorization for commercial use. The reversal blindsided developers who built on earlier MIT-licensed versions and has renewed debate about what 'open source' actually means for AI models.
Google Reveals Android 17, Aluminium OS, and XR Glasses at 'The Android Show' — One Week Before I/O
Google used a dedicated pre-I/O event to announce Android 17 with deep Gemini agentic integration, Aluminium OS as a full Windows/macOS competitor, and Android XR glasses from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. Samsung is building Galaxy Books on Aluminium OS.
Google Confirms First AI-Written Exploit: Criminal Group Used LLM to Find and Weaponize 2FA Zero-Day
Google's Threat Intelligence Group caught a criminal gang using an AI model to independently discover and exploit a zero-day authentication vulnerability—the first confirmed case of AI authoring a working exploit. The attack was disrupted before mass exploitation.
EU Amends the AI Act: High-Risk Deadlines Pushed to 2027–2028, New CSAM Prohibition Added
EU Council and Parliament negotiators reached a deal on May 7 to slim down the AI Act — extending compliance deadlines for high-risk AI systems, expanding SME exemptions to mid-caps, and adding an outright ban on AI-generated CSAM.
Anthropic Rents the Entire Colossus 1 Data Center — 300+ MW and 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs From SpaceX
After reporting 80x year-over-year usage growth, Anthropic signed a deal to lease all of SpaceX's Colossus 1 facility in Memphis — over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs across 300+ MW — and is immediately lifting rate caps for most paid subscribers.
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