Major Players

Google's Jeff Dean announced his departure to found Discovery Loop, a new company aiming to automate the AI research process.

• •Former Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean co-founded the new company with Sanjeev Grewal and others.
• •The company aims to automate the entire research process, including experiments and validation, using frontier AI models.
• •Google serves as an initial investor and cloud partner, supporting the new company's activities.

Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency issued a corrective order to the operator of the photo editing app "SNOW" for requesting X posts that were not disclosed as advertisements, violating the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums.

• •The company requested paid posts on X but failed to clearly indicate that they were advertisements.
• •Corrective orders were issued to both the Korean parent company and the Japanese subsidiary for violating the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums.
• •The agency demanded corrections as a specific example of administrative guidance against stealth marketing.

Japan's Geospatial Information Agency analyzed satellite radar data to identify a "displacement boundary" where the ground shifted over approximately 35 km during the Kumamoto earthquake, confirming a 2-meter right-lateral offset via aerial photos.

• •Analysis was conducted using radar data from the ALOS-2 and ALOS-4 Earth observation satellites.
• •It was determined that the boundary of ground displacement caused by the Reiwa 8 Kumamoto earthquake extended approximately 35 km.
• •Analysis of aerial photos revealed a right-lateral offset of approximately 2 meters.

Reports revealed the reality of AI training data collection, including mass purchases of old books by Chinese AI firms and Anthropic discarding scanned books.

• •A Dutch antiquarian bookstore received an order for 3,000 books from a Chinese AI company, suspected to be for training data.
• •Anthropic has also discarded millions of books after scanning them, raising questions about its data collection methods.
• •The reports revealed how physical books are handled behind the scenes to secure training data for AI models.

NASA announced that the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket collided with the lunar surface; while unplanned, the agency stated it poses no danger to Earth or lunar equipment.

• •NASA officially announced that the used upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket collided with the Moon.
• •SpaceX explained that standard controlled deorbiting can be difficult for high-energy missions.
• •The collision is considered to pose no danger to Earth or existing equipment on the lunar surface.

Anthropic introduced an access control model based on agent identity and operational best practices to address security challenges when sharing AI within teams.

• •The focus is on security risks during team sharing rather than individual AI usage.
• •Access management via agent identity in Claude Tag is recommended.
• •Specific best practices for workspace configuration were published.

In Docomo's first-quarter consolidated results, mobile communications revenue continued to decline, but the Smart Life business, including finance and video streaming, performed well, achieving increased profit.

• •The mobile communications business continues to show a trend of declining revenue.
• •The Smart Life business, which bundles finance and video streaming services, has grown rapidly.
• •The strong performance of the Smart Life business drove overall company revenue and profit growth.

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek announced on its official API pricing page that it expects a significant price increase soon, suggesting a move toward price normalization and demand adjustment.

• •DeepSeek previewed a major API fee increase on its official page.
• •The hike may aim to exit low-price competition or suppress demand.
• •Developers and enterprises need to plan for increased costs and consider alternatives.

Gmail has decided to discontinue the feature allowing users to set third-party email addresses as senders, citing the need to reduce the burden of maintaining resources.

• •Gmail announced the end of support for the feature that allows setting third-party email addresses as senders.
• •The primary reason for the discontinuation is that the resources required to maintain the feature are excessive.
• •Users will no longer be able to configure sender addresses other than their own Gmail address.

NVIDIA began offering its Alpamayo autonomous driving AI model family under a commercial open license, announcing that the new model achieved top performance on reasoning benchmarks.

• •NVIDIA's Alpamayo autonomous driving model was released under a commercial open license.
• •The new Alpamayo 2 Super model achieved top performance on reasoning benchmarks.
• •Automakers and related companies can use this high-performance model for autonomous driving development.