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French consortium bids $10bn for EU AI gigafactory as Europe races to close gap with US and China

A French consortium led by Scaleway has submitted a $10 billion bid to build one of the EU's planned AI gigafactories, proposing a 200-megawatt facility with GPU clusters equivalent to over 288,000 Nvidia H100s. The AION consortium brings together major French tech players including Iliad, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands under the EU's €20 billion InvestAI Facility.

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DataDome launches Priority Protect virtual waiting room to manage AI shopping agents and bots

DataDome has unveiled Priority Protect, a virtual waiting room designed to classify human shoppers, authorized AI shopping agents and malicious bots in real time during high-demand sales events. The system uses intent-aware analysis to ensure fair access, addressing the challenge retailers face as agentic AI systems execute purchases at machine speed.

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Intuit cuts 3,000 jobs while CEO insists workforce reduction had nothing to do with AI

Financial software company Intuit is laying off 17% of its workforce—roughly 3,000 employees—as it seeks to streamline operations and invest in AI capabilities. But CEO Sasan Goodarzi firmly denies the cuts are driven by automation, instead blaming organizational complexity and excess management layers. The move comes as Intuit's stock has fallen 41% this year amid concerns traditional software firms can't compete in the AI era.

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Bristol-Myers Squibb deploys Anthropic's Claude AI across 30,000 employees to speed drug discovery

Bristol-Myers Squibb is partnering with Anthropic to deploy Claude Enterprise as its shared intelligence platform across global operations. The pharmaceutical giant will integrate the AI model across research, clinical development, manufacturing, and commercial functions, targeting faster drug discovery in oncology and neuroscience. McKinsey projects agentic AI could increase clinical development productivity by 35% to 45% over the next five years.

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AMD launches Ryzen AI Max 400 chips with 192GB memory and $3,999 AI workstation

AMD announced its Ryzen AI Max 400 series processors featuring up to 192GB of unified memory and opened pre-orders for the Ryzen AI Halo workstation starting at $3,999. The compact AI workstation powered by Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5 architectures directly competes with Nvidia's DGX Spark while offering both Windows and Linux support for AI developers.

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OpenAI preparing to file for blockbuster IPO that could happen by September

Sam Altman's OpenAI is working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to file confidentially for an initial public offering within days or weeks, possibly as early as Friday. The ChatGPT maker, last valued at $852 billion, aims to go public by September. This move comes just two days after OpenAI defeated Elon Musk's lawsuit and sets up a race against SpaceX and Anthropic for Wall Street capital.

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Klarna launches ChatGPT shopping app with live prices across 100 million products

Klarna unveiled its Shopping Search app in ChatGPT on May 20, enabling consumers to search for products, compare prices, and check availability across more than 100 million products from 400 million merchant listings. The integration comes as AI platform traffic to retail sites surged 700% during the 2025 holiday season, signaling a shift in how consumers discover and purchase products.

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Sam Altman offers $2 million in OpenAI tokens to every Y Combinator startup for equity

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a deal to invest $2 million worth of API tokens in every startup in Y Combinator's current batch, exchanging AI infrastructure credits for equity through an uncapped SAFE agreement. The offer covers approximately 169 startups and aims to reduce AI costs while building OpenAI's early-stage portfolio.

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Acceldata launches autonomous platform as AI breaks cloud centralization model

Acceldata has launched its Autonomous Data & AI Platform, marking what CEO Rohit Choudhary calls the end of the data lakehouse era. Built on xLake architecture, the platform addresses a critical shift: AI agents need to operate on distributed data across multiple environments, not wait for centralized migration. Research shows 80% of Fortune 1000 enterprises already operate hybrid data architectures, with 75% managing four or more data platforms in production.

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AI foundation models show promise for universal eye care but face real-world deployment barriers

A systematic review published in Advances in Ophthalmology Practice and Research examines how AI foundation models are shifting ophthalmology from single-purpose algorithms to flexible systems that connect images, clinical language, and patient data. Models like RETFound and VisionFM demonstrate strong diagnostic performance across multiple eye diseases, but challenges including algorithmic bias, limited interpretability, and insufficient clinical validation must be addressed before widespread adoption.

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China bans Nvidia RTX 5090D V2 while Jensen Huang visits Beijing with Trump delegation

Beijing added Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2 to its banned imports list on May 15 while CEO Jensen Huang was visiting China alongside President Trump. The gaming chip, designed to comply with US export controls, had become a workaround for Chinese AI developers cut off from advanced processors. The move signals China's determination to support domestic chipmakers like Huawei as the US-China AI race intensifies.

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Google smart glasses powered by Gemini AI challenge Meta and Apple with hands-free capabilities

Google showcased AI glasses at I/O 2026 with Gemini AI integration, partnering with Warby Parker, Gentle Monster, and Samsung. The wearable tech features real-time translation, cross-device compatibility, and ambient accessibility that positions it ahead of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. Three models launch this fall, including audio-only versions and display-equipped prototypes.

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Google's Android XR smart glasses will support iOS, expanding reach beyond Android users

Google announced Android XR intelligent eyewear at I/O 2026, featuring Gemini AI and partnerships with Samsung, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster. The smart glasses will launch this fall with a notable feature: they'll work with both Android and iOS devices, potentially expanding their user base to iPhone owners despite possible limitations in Gemini AI functionality on Apple's platform.

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Primer secures $100M Series C to expand AI payments infrastructure and scale US operations

London-based payments startup Primer has raised $100 million in Series C funding to accelerate its AI-powered payment platform and expand US operations. Led by Sofina and Peak XV Partners, the investment will fuel development of autonomous AI agents that optimize payment decisions across fragmented systems, while supporting plans to grow US revenue to over a third of total business by 2028.

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Canva and Adobe integrate with Google Gemini, making AI design tools ubiquitous across platforms

Canva and Adobe have launched integrations with Google Gemini, completing Canva's sweep across all four major AI assistants. Users can now generate editable, on-brand designs directly from Gemini conversations using text prompts. Adobe's connector brings over 50 creative tools to the platform, while Canva's Magic Layers transforms AI-generated images into layered, editable files.

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