The A.I. Canonical https://theaicanonical.com/ A broadsheet of record for artificial intelligence. en-us Wed, 27 May 2026 07:51:30 GMT Nvidia Reports a Record $81.6 Billion in Quarterly Sales as Data Centers Drive AI Buildout https://theaicanonical.com/articles/nvidia-record-quarter-81b/ https://theaicanonical.com/articles/nvidia-record-quarter-81b/ Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Data-center revenue nearly doubled from a year earlier, reaching $75.2 billion. Chief executive Jensen Huang called the buildout 'the largest infrastructure expansion in human history.' Business Naomi Stresser At Google I/O, an Omni Model and an Agent Named Spark Reframe the Competition https://theaicanonical.com/articles/google-io-gemini-omni-spark/ https://theaicanonical.com/articles/google-io-gemini-omni-spark/ Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sundar Pichai used the May 19 keynote to position Gemini 3.5 Flash, the new Omni multimodal model, and the Spark general-purpose agent as Google's coordinated answer to a year of frontier-lab competition. Bay Area Chioma Okonkwo Meta Plans the Largest Capital Expenditure in Its History — and the Layoffs to Match https://theaicanonical.com/articles/meta-capex-and-layoffs-2026/ https://theaicanonical.com/articles/meta-capex-and-layoffs-2026/ Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The company has raised its 2026 spending guidance to between $125 billion and $145 billion, the largest such commitment in its history, while planning to cut roughly 8,000 jobs. Features Stefan Reinholt Europe Agrees to Simplify Its A.I. Act, Pushing Some Deadlines and Tightening Others https://theaicanonical.com/articles/eu-ai-act-omnibus-simplification/ https://theaicanonical.com/articles/eu-ai-act-omnibus-simplification/ Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Council and Parliament reached political agreement on May 7 on amendments to the bloc's flagship A.I. legislation, in a package the institutions have branded an 'omnibus' on simplification. International Declan Pendergast Anthropic, Going Wider on Wall Street, Names J.P. Morgan, Goldman and Citi as Claude Users https://theaicanonical.com/articles/anthropic-wall-street-claude-deployment/ https://theaicanonical.com/articles/anthropic-wall-street-claude-deployment/ Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT At an invite-only briefing in New York on May 5, the company disclosed production deployments at five of the largest financial institutions and debuted Claude Opus 4.7, a model tuned for financial work. National Edmund Halverson