New research from the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute (AIDE) evaluates how S&P 500 companies are adopting AI across four pillars and assigns scores up to 100. Nvidia, Amazon, Meta and SLB (formerly Schlumberger) earned top overall results, while Walmart, AES and NextEra Energy followed with scores in the mid-90s. The open-source index uses public signals such as earnings-call transcripts, job postings and patent filings to benchmark adoption rather than financial impact.

Intel says it plans to ship its Crescent Island data-center AI GPU in 2026, positioning it against Nvidia and AMD by focusing on lower memory costs and reduced power needs. The design uses up to 480GB of LPDDR5X and is intended for air-cooled racks, with customer sampling slated for the second half of 2026. The company also links the inference-focused chip push to demand from bitcoin miners shifting data centers toward AI compute.

The U.S. SEC says it sued Texas entrepreneur Nathan Fuller after he allegedly raised $12.3 million from roughly 150 investors by marketing an “AI” crypto-arbitrage bot strategy that did not exist. The complaint says the fundraising ran from at least October 2022 through mid-2024, with only about $380,000 used to buy crypto and at least $6.2 million allegedly diverted for personal spending.

On May 31, NVIDIA said it has moved its 88-core Vera CPU into full production, framing it as a data-center processor built specifically for AI agent workloads. The company listed OpenAI, Anthropic, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, ByteDance, SpaceXAI, and CoreWeave as early adopters planning deployments, and claimed Vera can reach up to 1.8x the performance of x86 CPUs on agentic AI tasks.

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has shattered its quiet enterprise narrative, emerging as the focal point of a massive tech rally. Following a breathtaking late-May surge that saw shares jump as much as 12.7% in a single session to touch $301, IBM closed the final week of May at $297.80, posting a cumulative weekly gain of roughly 13%.

On May 26, 2026, Spain’s Council of Ministers approved an organic law on AI governance, positioning Spain as the first EU country to turn the EU AI Act into binding national implementation rules. The measure sets out local supervision and procedures and includes practical guidance aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises, as the EU AI Act rolls out obligations in phases and allows member states to define enforcement details.

Anthropic completed a $65 billion Series H on May 28, 2026, setting a $965 billion post-money valuation and moving ahead of OpenAI's $852 billion mark. The company reported an annualized revenue run rate above $47 billion in May 2026, up from $30 billion in February. The round was co-led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.

Enterprise AI is proving significantly more expensive than many companies expected, pushing CFOs to weigh increased token spend against future hiring plans. CEOs at Glean and Factory AI say Fortune 500 buyers are shifting from indiscriminate usage to tighter model selection, as annual AI budgets are being used up in just one or two months.