Spain's $33.5B AI bet

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        May 18, 2026

Spain's $33.5B AI bet

Spain's $33.5B AI bet · TensorMax

Plus: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, Nvidia targets $1T data-center revenue

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Daily AI Market Intelligence

Monday, May 18, 2026
2:45 PM ET · 2 min read

          By the TensorMax editorial team
           ·  Drawing from sources across the AI industry

Today's top story

research paper

OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex under Greg Brockman

More from today

model release

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT

funding event
$33.5B

Spanish Government invests over €30 billion in digital projects, including chips, semiconductors, supercomputing, and language models

model release

Anthropic releases Mythos, a general-purpose AI model that found thousands of severe security vulnerabilities

model release

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, a model that sparks major cybersecurity concerns worldwide

product launch
$15B

SpaceX has invested $15 billion in the Starship rocket program

product launch

Apple rumored to develop AI pin or pendant for iPhone

Catch up quick

Estimated 10,000 individuals from companies like OpenAI and Nvidia achieve over $20M in wealth amidst AI boom

Google to invest up to $40bn in Anthropic as part of a deal including TPU capacity and chip supply

US announces withdrawal from World Health Organization

SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic projected to create $3.5 trillion in exit value

SpaceX has an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion

BlackRock / Microsoft / Nvidia / MGX / xAI consortium buys Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion

Google buys Wiz for $32 billion

Grok is subject to multiple open investigations in European jurisdictions, including a French criminal investigation

Nvidia targets $1 trillion data-center revenue

Samsung and its union resume talks after a court partially grants an injunction against a looming strike

NextEra Energy to acquire Dominion Energy for $67 billion

Tata invests $11 billion in India's first chip fabrication plant in partnership with ASML

AI SDRs outperform human sales reps in certain tasks

New research presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy reveals a modified audio clip can manipulate AI voice models with 79-96% success rate

Anthropic's Mythos model has the ability to rapidly find and exploit bugs throughout the internet, approaching the abilities of elite human hackers

Also on the desk

Cerebras raises $60B in IPO
Anthropic's revenue and usage grow 80x in the first quarter of 2026
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to be listed on stock markets in what will likely be two of the largest public offerings in history
Parents sue OpenAI after their son's death from a drug overdose allegedly linked to ChatGPT consultation
Quantinuum files to go public on Nasdaq, expecting a valuation above $10 billion

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