📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

A startup flipped on a microreactor live on stage and ran an Nvidia Blackwell PC off it. The company is now building a 30MW closed-loop AI factory with Nvidia that uses no local water.Valar Atomics activated its Ward 250 nuclear microreactor on stage during a live event, where it announced its partnership with Nvidia to power an AI factory.

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Sued by Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. for enabling character infringement, the AI image lab now wants the studios to reveal their own behind-the-scenes AI use. Its defense is that everyone’s already doing it.

EFF and 14 allies want the FTC to keep auditing X, warning a rebrand doesn’t erase its privacy duties. On May 15, X Corp. filed a petition before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to set aside or modify an order issued in 2022 requiring the company to report regularly to the FTC for its violations of user data.

Beijing's Z.ai startup delivers capabilities rivaling Anthropic and OpenAI at one-sixth the cost; now ranks above Anthropic models on developer platform OpenRouter.

Vinton Cerf will step down from his role as Google’s chief internet evangelist next week, marking the conclusion of one of the most influential careers in technology history. While speaking via video feed at the Open Frontier conference hosted by the Laude Institute, Cerf was recognized by Dave Patterson, the UC Berkeley professor best known for co-developing RISC processor architecture.

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🏛️ Washington May Own Part of OpenAI

🧮 Claude Cracks a Physics Stalemate

💰 Walmart, Uber, Microsoft cap AI usage as ROI scrutiny intensifies

📈 Robinhood CEO says AI agents will match human trader capabilities

🧐AI bug-hunting models have triggered a record surge

🤖Meta Says Watermelon Has Caught Up With GPT 5.5 Benchmarks

🧠 “AI Has Hacked Human Civilization”

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