An amended agreement announced April 27 makes Microsoft’s AI license non-exclusive through 2032, lets OpenAI sell through any cloud provider, and ends the revenue share Microsoft paid — a structural shift driven by OpenAI’s $50 billion Amazon deal.
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Big AI uses Big Tobacco tactics to capture regulation, new study finds
A peer-reviewed study by Edinburgh, TU Delft, CMU and Trinity College catalogues 249 cases of AI firms using Big Tobacco-style tactics to shape regulation.
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Google I/O 2026 opens with Gemini Omni, Android XR glasses and an AI laptop
Google opened I/O 2026 on May 19 with Gemini Omni, the agentic Gemini Spark layer for Android 17, and the first public preview of Android XR smart glasses.
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Nvidia H200 sales cleared by Washington, blocked by Beijing
The U.S. approved H200 chip sales to ten Chinese firms including Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance — up to 75,000 chips each — but not a single unit has shipped as Beijing steers buyers away from American hardware.
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EU Parliament delays AI Act high-risk rules to December 2027
EU Parliament voted to delay AI Act high-risk system rules until December 2027, while backing a ban on nudifier AI systems in a broader simplification package.
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Google fights emergency court order to share its search index with rivals
A federal court ordered Google to open its search index to competitors and end exclusive distribution deals; Google filed an emergency stay motion the same week, leaving the remedy in legal limbo.
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Jensen Huang joins Trump’s China trip in bid to end the H200 chip stalemate
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined Trump’s Beijing delegation at the last minute to push for H200 AI chip sales to China, which remain blocked despite US authorization granted months ago.
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Paul Tudor Jones says the US is dangerously late to regulate AI
The hedge fund founder told CNBC on May 7 that Washington’s failure to establish governance frameworks while AI deployment accelerates is a ‘governance gap’ that could produce risks society is not prepared for — framing AI oversight as a financial stability concern, not just a civil liberties one.
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EU opens sweeping antitrust inquiry into Big Tech’s AI operations
The European Commission’s competition directorate confirmed in March 2026 that it has opened a wide-ranging inquiry into how large technology companies are using AI to entrench market power, targeting practices at Nvidia, Meta, Google, and Microsoft simultaneously.
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Trump’s January chip order rewrites the rules on AI hardware exports
A January 2026 presidential proclamation imposing a 25 percent tariff on imported AI chips, combined with a BIS rule shifting export review of advanced chips from presumption of denial to case-by-case, has restructured who can buy the most powerful AI hardware and on what terms.