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Trump pulled the AI executive order at the last minute after Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and David Sacks all called him between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, with the White House citing the US race against China as the deciding factor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/22/last-minute-lobbying-by-tech-industry-officials-led-trump-cancel-ai-order/

Business Insider details how Satya Nadella is restructuring Microsoft's senior leadership around a startup-style operating model for the AI race, with weekly Copilot stand-ups, an AI Accelerator Meeting, and Nadella himself in the engineering trenches.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/inside-microsoft-high-stakes-push-win-back-ai-lead/

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng told investors in the lab's first-ever outside funding round, a 70 billion yuan raise targeting roughly a $10 billion valuation, that the goal is AGI and that DeepSeek will keep releasing open-source models over chasing commercialization.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-22/deepseek-founder-declares-agi-goal-as-10-billion-round-advances

The Information reports OpenAI generated about $5.7 billion in Q1 revenue, roughly $1 billion more than Anthropic, but with a negative 122% adjusted operating income margin and stalled ChatGPT user growth as both companies head toward expected IPOs.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-1-billion-revenue-lead-anthropic-first-quarter