Who Controls AI as Stakes Explode?
4th May 2026 | Superintelligence Newsletter
Hey Superintelligence Fam 👋
This week marked a clear shift. Google stepping in after Anthropic’s refusal to support Pentagon AI signals how quickly big tech is aligning with state-level deployment, despite internal pushback.
At the same time, momentum is accelerating. A potential $60B Cursor move, trillion-parameter models, and self-evolving agents show scale and speed rising together. The question is whether this is sustainable progress or early signs of overheating.
Let’s dive into what’s new this week..
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Google Opens Pentagon Access to Its AI : Google gives the Pentagon classified-network AI access after Anthropic refused similar terms, despite 950 employees urging stronger guardrails on surveillance and weapons.
SpaceX’s $60B Cursor Bet : SpaceX reportedly secures an option to buy Cursor for $60B, or pay $10B for partnership, pushing Musk deeper into AI coding infrastructure.
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 : Xiaomi’s omnimodal MiMo-V2.5 packs 310B total, 15B active parameters, 1M context, 48T-token training, and text, image, video, audio understanding.
Musk vs OpenAI Trial : In Oakland, Musk accused OpenAI of “stealing a charity,” while OpenAI argued his lawsuit reflects rivalry after losing control of the AI giant.
Mistral Workflows : Enterprise AI orchestration for real business processes: durable execution, human approvals, OpenTelemetry traces, Python workflows, and Le Chat publishing from production in days.
OpenAI Workspace Agents : Codex-powered shared agents for ChatGPT teams, handling reports, code, Slack tasks, CRM updates, approvals, memory, and scheduled cloud workflows.
DeepSeek V4 Preview : DeepSeek’s open-source 1M-context models: V4-Pro with 1.6T/49B active parameters and V4-Flash with 284B/13B active for cheaper agentic work.
Browser Harness : An open-source, CDP-based self-healing browser harness where agents edit their own helpers, run locally, stealthily, or 24/7 on Browser Use Box.
DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context : A 1M-token open model family with 1.6T/49B-active Pro and 284B/13B-active Flash, making long-context agents cheaper, faster, and more practical.
Autogenesis: A Self-Evolving Agent Protocol : Turns agents into upgradeable systems: prompts, tools, memory, and environments evolve through auditable loops, version control, rollback, and benchmark-tested self-improvement.
Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation : Apple shows Transformers can become attention-free Mamba models, preserving quality with 14.11 perplexity versus Pythia-1B’s 13.86 after 10B-token distillation.
Reports revealed Google expanding Pentagon AI access after Anthropic’s refusal, sparking internal dissent through a Google employee protest letter. Simultaneously, Alphabet investors demanding safeguards highlighted governance risks, while South Africa withdrawing an AI policy over hallucinated citations exposed reliability concerns. On the global stage, Bernie Sanders calling for international AI cooperation reinforced the urgency of coordinated ethical frameworks.
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