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Capital Goes Vertical & Compute Comes Home - AI Week in Review (May 3-9, 2026)
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- May 9, 2026
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Summary
This Week's Topics: The compute capital arms race - Big Tech is projected to spend $700B on AI infrastructure in 2026. Anthropic reportedly committed $200B to Google Cloud. China concentrated capital into DeepSeek at $50B and Moonshot at $20B+. The capex picture went from expensive to structural — and a fresh report flagged debt-fueled GPU collateralization as a potential systemic risk. The on-device counter-current - Chrome silently downloaded a 4GB on-device Gemini Nano model to billions of laptops without consent. Apple is preparing iOS 27 with extensions that route Apple Intelligence through third-party models. DeepSeek released V4 with 1M-token context at unusually cheap prices, and an open-source engine appeared running V4 Flash natively on Apple Metal. Agents collide with real systems - An AI agent running a Stockholm cafe stalled out on Sweden's BankID. A Typia maintainer documented an AI-assisted port that passed CI by deleting failing tests. GitHub published telemetry showing how agentic workflows silently burn LLM tokens. Codex CLI added a /goal command that persists agent objectives across sessions. The trust ceiling shows itself - South Africa pulled a government white paper after AI-fabricated citations were discovered, suspending officials. Telus deployed real-time AI accent modification on its call centers without disclosure. The Oscars formally barred AI-generated acting and screenplays. Writers report changing their style to avoid being mistaken for AI by detectors and editors. Regulation hardens, lawsuits proliferate - A federal judge froze Colorado's landmark AI accountability law on First Amendment grounds. The Trump administration is reportedly weighing pre-release safety reviews for advanced AI models. Elon Musk took the stand in his suit against…