Huawei Says It Has a New Law of Physics
He Tingbo, chairwoman of Huawei's semiconductor business, proposed a replacement for Moore's Law. Huawei is also calling it Her's Law. The new law's first claim is that Huawei plans to be three years behind TSMC in 2031, instead of five years behind today, which is being reported as a narrowing of the chip gap and which is, technically, a narrowing of the chip gap.
A Battery Company Is Investing in DeepSeek
CATL, the largest EV battery maker in the world, wants a piece of DeepSeek's funding round, which now reportedly values the AI lab between $45 billion and $50 billion. A battery company buying into a chatbot company sounds like a mistake, and is instead the most rational check in the round.
Starlink Is Paying for the Data Centers in Space
SpaceX filed to go public, and the S-1 reveals the orbital AI compute moonshot now has a date, a scale, and a visible funding source: Starlink subscriptions and an AI segment that is losing billions.
Europe Makes a Compute Correction
Three months after an investor called Macron a 'clown' over a €30 million AI grant, a French-led consortium is bidding €10 billion for EU gigafactory funds. The AION project would deploy 288,000 GPUs at up to a gigawatt, with EDF's nuclear fleet as the differentiator. It is still dwarfed by US capex, but the checks are real now.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Costs Three Times as Much as Gemini Flash
Google led I/O 2026 with a cheap, fast model that is no longer cheap. On the same day, Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic's pre-training team. The two facts describe which layer of the AI market is consolidating and which one is still a fight.
OpenAI and Anthropic Have Different Policy Proposals for the AI Arms Race
Within roughly 24 hours, OpenAI proposed a US-led global AI governance body that would include China, and Anthropic published a policy paper urging tighter chip controls and export restrictions against China. Both releases were timed around the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing. Each company's proposal aligns neatly with its commercial topology.
Mythos Got Better Without a New Release
The UK AI Security Institute tested a newer Mythos Preview checkpoint and found it solved one cyber range in 6 of 10 attempts (up from 3) and a previously unsolved second range in 3 of 10. AISI's own framing flags the obvious problem: model capabilities can jump materially between checkpoints, which complicates every pre-deployment evaluation regime currently being drafted.
Google Is Going to Space Too
The Wall Street Journal reported that Google is in talks with SpaceX to build data centers in orbit. Google has been researching space-based compute since November of last year under a project called Suncatcher. Neither company is confirming anything, but the underlying physics argument is genuine, the SpaceX IPO context is interesting, and nobody has answered the jurisdiction question yet.
Arm Has $20 Billion in Chip Orders and $1 Billion in Chips
Arm shipped its first-ever chip in March and accumulated $20 billion in customer demand in six weeks. Manufacturing capacity is secured for $1 billion of it. The story of a company that made the right architectural bet for the agentic era and then ran headlong into the TSMC queue.
A New Know Your Agent Challenger Wants to Read Your Palm
VeryAI, a Miami startup with $10 million in Polychain-led seed funding and a co-founder fresh out of Web3 identity, launched a Know Your Agent platform this week that uses palm biometrics to bind AI agents to verified humans and re-prompts a palm scan every time the agent tries to do something a human ought to be paying attention to.
Claude Is Going to Space
Anthropic announced a deal for the entirety of compute capacity at SpaceX-owned xAI’s Colossus 1 supercomputer in Memphis, plus a footnote about jointly developing multiple gigawatts of compute capacity in orbit. The deal lands in the middle of week two of Elon Musk’s federal trial against Sam Altman.
After Mythos, a Pre-Market Regime for Frontier AI
NIST signed pre-deployment evaluation agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI, joining existing deals with OpenAI and Anthropic. The Trump administration is reportedly drafting an executive order to formalize what is currently a voluntary regime. The structural question, which current coverage has mostly stepped past, is whether a pre-market gate that only covers closed-weight labs can hold.