AI News for April 30, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic weighs $50B round at $900B valuation, leapfrogging OpenAI: Anthropic is considering preemptive offers to raise $40-50 billion at a valuation between $850B and $900B, sources told TechCrunch and Bloomberg.
[NEWS] Microsoft hikes 2026 AI capex to $190B, Meta to $145B, only Google rewarded: Microsoft surprised Wall Street with $190B in 2026 capex guidance, far above the $147B analyst estimate and approaching Amazon's $200B plan.
[RESEARCH] Mistral releases Medium 3.5, a 128B dense open-weights flagship: Mistral released Medium 3.5 in public preview as a 128B-parameter dense model with a 256k context window, distributed under a modified MIT license.
[NEWS] Google Cloud Q1 hits $20B with 63% growth, AI products up 800% YoY: Google Cloud crossed $20B in quarterly revenue for the first time, growing 63% year-over-year.
[NEWS] SoftBank plans Roze AI robotics spinoff, eyes $100B IPO: SoftBank is creating a new robotics company called Roze AI focused on automating data center construction with autonomous robots.
[NEWS] Tumbler Ridge families sue OpenAI and Altman over school-shooting ChatGPT use: Seven families of victims from the Tumbler Ridge school shooting filed lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company failed to alert police despite its safety team flagging suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar's ChatGPT activity more than eight months before the attack.
[NEWS] Amazon eyes selling Trainium AI chips as physical product, has $225B in commitments: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on the Q1 earnings call there is 'a good chance' AWS will sell physical racks of Trainium AI chips to external customers within two years — the first concrete timeline the company has provided.
[NEWS] White House moves to restore federal access to Anthropic's Mythos: The White House is drafting guidance to let federal agencies work with Anthropic again, including access to its Mythos model, sidestepping the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation.
[TOOLS] Apple adds Siri Camera Mode to iOS 27 with visual AI for nutrition and contacts: Apple is building a dedicated Siri mode inside iOS 27's camera app, sitting alongside standard photo and video options, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported.
[RESEARCH] Nvidia releases Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, open multimodal model trained on rivals' outputs: Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open 30B-parameter multimodal model that processes text, images, video, and audio in a single Mamba-Transformer hybrid with Mixture-of-Experts, activating roughly 3B parameters per query.

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