Google DeepMind announced plans to use the long‑running space MMO Eve Online as a training ground for its next generation of artificial‑intelligence models. The lab also disclosed a minority investment in Fenris Creations, the newly renamed owner of the game. DeepMind’s CEO Demis Hassabis said the partnership will let researchers explore player‑driven dynamics in a complex virtual universe, while the investment will keep Eve Online’s development independent. Read more →

Elon Musk left OpenAI's board in early 2018 after a heated dispute with co‑founders over control of the nonprofit's future. The disagreement, which began in 2017 when Musk demanded full authority over a planned for‑profit arm, led to a breakdown in funding and eventually a legal battle that began in 2024. Testimony from OpenAI president Greg Brockman, including excerpts from his private journal, revealed the tension behind the scenes. The conflict has resurfaced as courts examine whether Musk’s departure was voluntary or forced, and how the organization’s governance evolved into the AI powerhouse it is today. Read more →

Google’s DeepMind division has acquired a minority share in Fenris Creations, the newly independent company behind the massive multiplayer space game EVE Online. The partnership will let DeepMind run AI experiments on an offline version of the game, exploiting its complex, player‑driven environment to advance long‑term planning, memory and continual‑learning capabilities. Fenris CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson and DeepMind director Alexandre Moufarek said the collaboration aims to push the frontier of artificial intelligence while exploring new gameplay experiences, all without disrupting the live game. Read more →

Anthropic announced a new "dreaming" capability for its AI agents at a developer conference in San Francisco on May 6, 2026. The feature scans an agent’s recent activity logs, extracts patterns and refines the system’s memory between sessions. While the rollout promises more self‑improving bots, industry observers warn that naming AI tools after human cognitive processes blurs the line between machine functions and human traits, potentially skewing public perception of what these systems can actually do. Read more →