AI News for May 23, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic to close $30B+ round at $900B valuation, surpassing OpenAI: Anthropic will close its latest funding round as soon as next week, raising over $30B at a valuation above $900B.
[NEWS] Trump pulls AI safety executive order after Musk, Zuckerberg, Sacks lobbying blitz: President Trump abruptly canceled Thursday's signing ceremony for an AI safety executive order after last-minute phone calls from Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and former AI czar David Sacks.
[NEWS] Microsoft cancels most Claude Code licenses, pushes engineers to Copilot CLI: Microsoft is winding down Claude Code access for thousands of developers and steering them to GitHub Copilot CLI by June 30, the last day of its fiscal year.
[NEWS] OpenAI burned $1.22 per dollar earned in Q1 even after stripping stock comp: OpenAI's adjusted operating margin hit minus 122% in Q1 2026, meaning it lost $1.22 for every dollar of revenue even after excluding stock-based compensation.
[NEWS] California's Newsom signs first US executive order shielding workers from AI job loss: California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the first US executive order from a governor aimed at protecting workers from AI-driven job displacement.
[NEWS] NPM supply-chain attack ships 633 malicious packages with valid Sigstore badges: The Mini Shai-Hulud campaign hit npm on May 19 with 633 malicious package versions that passed Sigstore provenance verification because attackers held valid signing certificates from a compromised maintainer account.
[NEWS] Internet sleuths recreate dead pilots' voices from NTSB spectrograms, agency yanks docket: The US National Transportation Safety Board pulled public access to its accident docket system after internet users reconstructed cockpit voice recordings from sound-spectrum imagery published in the UPS Flight 2976 crash investigation.
[NEWS] Samsung averts chip strike with $340K average bonuses, still trails SK Hynix: Samsung reached a tentative deal averting a threatened 18-day strike.
[NEWS] Microsoft dismantles senior leadership team as Nadella reorganizes for AI: Satya Nadella retired Microsoft's decades-old senior leadership team structure, replacing the SLT with smaller, flatter teams closer to product work.
[NEWS] CalPERS, NY, CA officials slam SpaceX IPO governance as worst ever for a mega-listing: CalPERS and the New York and California state controllers sent Elon Musk and SpaceX's top executives a letter charging that the upcoming IPO would 'constitute the most management-favorable governance structure ever brought to the US markets at this scale.' Public-fund managers overseeing $1T+ in assets cite Musk's outsized voting control, board entrenchment, and shareholder limitations.

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