SoftBank's Masayoshi Son says AI is already designing OpenAI's next model Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 5 June 2026 at 15:50 The SoftBank CEO told CNBC that superintelligence is arriving within two years, sooner than his earlier public forecast
Robotics startup Generalist AI is raising $400 million at a $2 billion valuation Quartz By: Colleen Cabili 5 June 2026 at 15:20 Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia and Bezos Expeditions among the returning backers
U.S. tech companies announced the most job cuts in nearly 2 years as AI spending surged Quartz By: Colleen Cabili 5 June 2026 at 15:00 AI was cited as the top reason for layoffs for the third straight month, accounting for 40% of all May cuts
Pfizer is licensing an AI startup's drug discovery software to speed up antibody design Quartz By: Colleen Cabili 5 June 2026 at 14:50 Pfizer will gain early access to Chai-3, a previously undisclosed model that doubles the antibody design success rate of its predecessor
OpenAI says it will comply with Trump's order to let the government review AI models before release Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 5 June 2026 at 13:56 An executive said the ChatGPT maker takes its responsibilities "very seriously" and proactively suggests ways governments can track AI safety
Anthropic is urging leading AI labs to build a shared brake pedal for AI development Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 5 June 2026 at 14:00 The Claude maker said AI is already accelerating its own development, and that a meaningful slowdown would require multiple frontier labs to act together
2028’s AI moment is already here Quartz By: Joseph Zeballos-Roig 5 June 2026 at 19:20 Potential Democratic and Republican candidates are beginning to stake out positions on A.I. ahead of the 2028 election