AI News for April 28, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Microsoft and OpenAI gut exclusive deal, killing AGI clause and freeing OpenAI to sell on AWS: Microsoft and OpenAI dismantled the exclusivity that defined commercial AI for six years.
[NEWS] China blocks Meta's $2B Manus deal, orders unwind despite closed transaction: China's National Development and Reform Commission ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus, citing national security and prohibiting foreign investment in the company.
[NEWS] David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence raises $1.1B at $5.1B for human-data-free superlearner: Former DeepMind reinforcement learning chief David Silver raised $1.1 billion in seed funding at a $5.1 billion valuation for Ineffable Intelligence, backed by Sequoia and Nvidia.
[NEWS] OpenAI reportedly building custom smartphone chips with MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Luxshare: OpenAI is developing its own smartphone processor with MediaTek and Qualcomm, with Luxshare as exclusive system co-design and manufacturing partner, according to Ming-Chi Kuo.
[NEWS] EU specification proceeding formally orders Google to open Android to rival AI assistants: The European Commission's specification proceeding concluded with a binding technical mandate: Google must open Android to third-party AI services, giving rivals equal footing on Google-powered phones.
[NEWS] 600 Google employees urge Pichai to refuse classified Pentagon AI workloads: Around 600 Google employees, including more than 20 principals, directors, and VPs largely from DeepMind and Cloud, signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding Google reject classified Pentagon AI work.
[NEWS] Meta signs space-based solar deal with Overview Energy for 1GW of always-on AI power: Meta signed an agreement with startup Overview Energy for up to 1 gigawatt of solar power collected by satellites and beamed back to Earth as near-infrared light to power existing solar farms at night.
[TOOLS] Xiaomi releases open-source MiMo-V2.5 and V2.5-Pro, leading open-model agentic benchmarks: Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the permissive MIT License, with the Pro variant scoring 63.8% on Xiaomi's ClawEval benchmark for agentic tasks while consuming only ~70K tokens per task.
[NEWS] OpenAI misses user growth and sales targets, fueling spending concerns: OpenAI recently fell short of internal goals for new user acquisition and sales, the Wall Street Journal reported, raising fears the company can't sustain its astronomical infrastructure spending.
[NEWS] Lapsus$ posts Mercor: 4TB of voice biometrics and ID scans for 40,000 AI contractors: Extortion group Lapsus$ posted Mercor's full data haul on its leak site, bundling 4TB of voice recordings paired with government ID scans for 40,000+ contractors who labeled data and recorded reading passages for AI training.

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