AI brief — 19 May 2026

EU streamlines the AI Act; Google launches Gemini 3.5 at I/O 2026; US government completes safety pacts with all five frontier AI labs.

• EU agrees to amend its AI Act, extending deadlines and banning nudifier apps
• Google opens I/O 2026 with Gemini 3.5, new pricing tiers, and a global coding agent
• US government completes pre-deployment safety pacts with all five major AI labs
• Cursor ships Composer 2.5: frontier coding performance at a tenth of the price
• Anthropic's Mythos model found thousands of unknown software vulnerabilities
• Anthropic in talks to raise $30 billion at a valuation above $900 billion