# AI News Digest - 2026-05-01

1. OpenAI said it had reached its goal of 10 gigawatts of AI compute capacity in the United States several years ahead of schedule.

2. Alphabet said it planned to invest up to $190 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure through 2026 and said that spending would rise significantly again in 2027.

3. Anthropic was reviewing investor offers that would have valued the company at over $900 billion, and the White House blocked a plan to expand access to its Mythos model to roughly 70 additional companies citing concerns about compute limits.

4. Goodfire released Silico, an off-the-shelf mechanistic interpretability tool that let developers inspect neurons, adjust model parameters during training and debugging, and package frontier interpretability techniques as a fee-based product.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/openai-says-it-hit-its-10-gigawatt-compute-goal-years-ahead-of-schedule/](https://the-decoder.com/openai-says-it-hit-its-10-gigawatt-compute-goal-years-ahead-of-schedule/)

[OpenAI says it hit its 10 gigawatt compute goal years ahead of schedule](https://the-decoder.com/openai-says-it-hit-its-10-gigawatt-compute-goal-years-ahead-of-schedule/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/google-ceo-says-pichai-says-people-love-ai-overviews-and-keep-coming-back-to-search-more/](https://the-decoder.com/google-ceo-says-pichai-says-people-love-ai-overviews-and-keep-coming-back-to-search-more/)

[Google CEO says Pichai says people "love" AI Overviews and keep coming back to search more](https://the-decoder.com/google-ceo-says-pichai-says-people-love-ai-overviews-and-keep-coming-back-to-search-more/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-reviewing-investor-offers-that-would-value-the-company-at-over-900-billion/](https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-reviewing-investor-offers-that-would-value-the-company-at-over-900-billion/)

[Anthropic reviewing investor offers that would value the company at over $900 billion](https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-reviewing-investor-offers-that-would-value-the-company-at-over-900-billion/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/white-house-worried-about-compute-limits-as-it-blocks-wider-access-to-anthropics-mythos/](https://the-decoder.com/white-house-worried-about-compute-limits-as-it-blocks-wider-access-to-anthropics-mythos/)

[White House worried about compute limits as it blocks wider access to Anthropic's Mythos](https://the-decoder.com/white-house-worried-about-compute-limits-as-it-blocks-wider-access-to-anthropics-mythos/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/30/1136721/this-startups-new-mechanistic-interpretability-tool-lets-you-debug-llms/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/30/1136721/this-startups-new-mechanistic-interpretability-tool-lets-you-debug-llms/)

[This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/30/1136721/this-startups-new-mechanistic-interpretability-tool-lets-you-debug-llms/)

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