China’s NDRC said humanoid robot race teams increased from more than 20 to over 100, with finishers rising from 6 to more than 40, and it will build embodied AI training infrastructure and pilot application bases for factories, malls, and homes.

404 Media reports that five girls at Radnor Township High School were targeted with AI-generated CSAM, and a freshman allegedly spent $250 on a Movely subscription from Apple’s App Store; the visible article does not disclose the police outcome.

Latent Space summarized AI News for May 20-21, 2026, confirming TurboPuffer reached $100 million ARR and profitability, Exa raised a $250 million Series C at a $2.2 billion valuation, and Modal raised a $355 million Series C at a $4.7 billion valuation.

DeepSeek is pursuing RMB 70 billion in funding at an estimated valuation of about $45 billion, with Tencent and IDG Capital close to participating and founder Liang Wenfeng potentially investing RMB 20 billion personally.

The title says DeepSeek’s founder declared an AGI goal and that a $10 billion funding round is advancing; the post does not disclose the founder’s statement, financing terms, investors, or timeline.

Trump canceled a planned AI executive order on May 22 that would have given the U.S. government authority to evaluate AI models before public release; the post says David Sacks, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk opposed the draft and lobbied against it.

Trump approved Nvidia H200 sales to China six months ago, but Beijing has not allowed any company to buy even one chip and is steering firms toward domestic alternatives from Huawei and Cambricon.

Cursor reached a $3 billion annualized revenue run rate in late April, up from more than $2 billion in February; the post says Cursor has over 3,000 customers paying at least $100,000 each.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order requiring state departments to study protections such as severance, unemployment insurance, and employee ownership, and to build a labor data dashboard that tracks AI’s gradual substitution of job tasks across industries.

Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated covers and remixes; the RSS snippet says participating artists receive a revenue share, but the post does not disclose the percentage or launch terms.

Trump refused to approve an AI executive order hours before its planned signing, citing fears that US innovators would lose ground to China; the RSS snippet does not disclose the order’s provisions, timeline, or the White House factions involved.

Waymo temporarily halted robotaxi service in five cities because its vehicles may attempt to drive on flooded roads; the RSS snippet says the same issue recently triggered a recall of thousands of vehicles, but the post does not disclose the city list or restart timing.

Trump delayed signing an AI security executive order that would have required government security reviews before model release; the post does not disclose review criteria, model scope, or a new signing timeline.

Bloomberg says SpaceX filed for a Nasdaq IPO and pitched a $28.5 trillion opportunity spanning AI to Mars; the snippet also says OpenAI is preparing an IPO filing that could arrive as soon as Friday.

The Wall Street Journal says Anthropic is nearing its first profitable quarter, with expected second-quarter revenue of $10.9 billion and operating profit of $559 million.

The jury found Elon Musk’s lawsuit was filed after the statute of limitations had expired, while the case centered on OpenAI’s shift from nonprofit to for-profit status and whether Musk lost money; the post does not disclose damages awarded or next legal steps.

Hark raised a $700 million Series A and plans to release its first multimodal models this summer; the post does not disclose investors, valuation, model specifications, or a hardware launch schedule.

SpaceX said in its S-1 filing that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.25 billion per month through May 2029 for access to Colossus I and II AI training centers in Memphis, totaling $15 billion annually.

Meta has notified thousands of employees of layoffs, and a management email said the cuts are meant to run the company more efficiently and offset other investments; the RSS snippet cites earlier reports of up to 20% headcount cuts but does not disclose the final percentage.

Samsung reached a last-minute agreement to avert a work stoppage tied to AI-related gains; the RSS snippet says the strike threatened Korea’s economy and the global AI boom, but the post does not disclose deal terms, amounts, or worker counts.

The title says OpenAI will confidentially file for an IPO as soon as Friday; the RSS body only includes the CNBC URL, Hacker News with 41 points and 2 comments, and does not disclose valuation, offering size, or listing timetable.

Intuit will lay off more than 3,000 employees and refocus on AI, but the RSS-only post does not disclose the affected teams, workforce percentage, severance terms, or implementation timeline.

Anthropic told investors that second-quarter revenue will more than double to about $10.9 billion; the title says the company is approaching its first profitable quarter, but the post does not disclose margin or cost structure.

OpenAI expects to file a draft IPO prospectus as soon as Friday, with Sam Altman setting a September 2026 listing target and the company carrying a private valuation above $850 billion.

SpaceX said it expanded its collaboration with Anthropic to provide large-scale AI compute services and is discussing similar deals with other companies; the post does not disclose the timeline, capacity, or deployment plan for orbital data centers.

SpaceX’s IPO filing disclosed that xAI lost $6.4 billion in 2025 and plans a large Grok expansion; the post does not disclose the expansion scale, capital spending, or financing terms.

Nvidia announced another record quarterly revenue figure after Wednesday’s market close and disclosed $43 billion in startup holdings; the post does not disclose the exact revenue number or the next-quarter growth forecast.

xAI said it will buy $2.8 billion of natural gas turbines over the next three years, according to SpaceX’s IPO filing; the title says xAI is being sued over data center generators, but the post does not disclose the plaintiff, claims, court, or turbine supplier.

Anthropic agreed to pay Elon Musk’s SpaceX nearly $45 billion over the next three years for computing resources to support its Claude AI software, according to a securities filing.

Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute; the post discloses the deal value but does not disclose compute scale, contract length, or deployment conditions.

Anthropic is on pace for its first profitable quarter as demand for its AI software drives revenue growth; the post does not disclose revenue size, profit range, or the specific quarter.

Meta plans to cut about 8,000 jobs and move about 7,000 employees into AI-related roles, concentrating resources on AI infrastructure, foundation model development, and commercialization from model training to product work and profit generation.

OpenAI resumed IPO preparations one day after Elon Musk lost a lawsuit targeting its structure, leadership, and finances; the headline says the IPO may happen in September, but the post does not disclose valuation, underwriters, or filing timeline.

OpenAI is preparing an IPO filing for a listing as soon as September with a target valuation of $1 trillion; the post names Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Cooley but does not disclose filing terms or exchange details.

The title says OpenAI is preparing to file for an IPO soon; the RSS body only discloses 25 Hacker News points and 5 comments, and the post does not disclose valuation, fundraising size, filing date, or listing timeline.

Box Elder County commissioners approved the Stratos Project, a 40,000-acre data center in Utah’s Hansel Valley projected to consume 9GW of power, while the post cites expert warnings, public backlash, environmental risks, and added strain on already taxed water supplies.

SoftBank has committed more than $60 billion to OpenAI and holds over 10% without a board seat, while some executives question the risk of concentrating that much capital in one company.

China banned Nvidia’s gaming chip during Jensen Huang’s visit, and the RSS snippet says Beijing aims to support domestic players including Huawei and Cambricon as they catch up to US rivals, but the post does not disclose the chip model or the scope of the ban.

The European Commission published draft guidelines on May 19 for classifying high-risk AI systems under Article 6 of the EU AI Act, using intended purpose as the main test and allowing exemptions for auxiliary tasks; the snippet gives the consultation deadline as “206月23日,” so the exact date is not disclosed cleanly.

The chat group daily says Karpathy joined Anthropic's pretraining team, and cites Stainless shutting down hosted services after acquisition plus Google I/O announcing Gemini 3.5 Flash and a $100 subscription tier.