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Illinois passed SB 315 in May 2026 — the first US state law requiring annual independent third-party safety audits for frontier AI models. With a 110-0 House vote and Governor Pritzker set to sign, it takes effect January 2027. OpenAI and Anthropic both supported it, despite being in scope.
Groq sold its LPU chip technology to Nvidia in a $20 billion deal last December. Now, with key engineers gone and its hardware IP absorbed, the company is raising $650 million to pivot to an AI inference cloud — competing in a market it once dominated on hardware merits alone.
United Launch Alliance's Atlas V successfully placed 29 Amazon Project Kuiper satellites into orbit on May 29 — the same night Blue Origin's rocket destroyed its own launch pad a few miles away. Amazon's constellation is growing, but its Blue Origin partnership is now a serious question mark.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test at Cape Canaveral on May 28, destroying the first-stage booster and the launch pad's gantry structure. No one was hurt, but Amazon's Project Kuiper satellite deployment is now facing a significant schedule hit.
Announced ahead of Computex 2026, the Snapdragon C platform targets budget Windows 11 machines starting around $300 — a price tier long dominated by Chromebooks and cheap x86 hardware.
Senate Bill 315 sailed through the Illinois legislature with near-unanimous support and is headed to Governor Pritzker's desk — it would require large AI developers to undergo annual independent safety audits and report critical incidents within 72 hours.
Carnival Corporation confirmed this week that attackers used social engineering to steal personal data on nearly 6 million people in April 2026. The ShinyHunters extortion group published the data after Carnival refused to pay.
BYD unveiled the Xuanji A3, China's first self-developed 4nm smart driving chip, at its Intelligent Strategy Launch event on May 28. A single chip delivers 700 TOPS; a three-chip cluster exceeds 2,100 TOPS. BYD says the chip has already entered mass production.
Samsung has begun shipping samples of its 12-layer HBM4E memory to major AI customers — the first time the next-generation standard has reached this stacking depth. The chips deliver up to 3.6 TB/s bandwidth and 48 GB capacity, a 30% jump over HBM4.
Anthropic confirmed it will release Claude Mythos-class models to all customers within weeks. The AI can autonomously discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities, but new safety guardrails make a broad rollout viable.
Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round led by Altimeter Capital and Sequoia, pushing its post-money valuation to $965 billion — surpassing OpenAI's $852 billion mark as Claude's annualized revenue hits $47 billion.
Anthropic confirmed it will release Claude Mythos-class models to all customers within weeks. The AI can autonomously discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities, but new safety guardrails make a broad rollout viable.