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AI Daily Brief — 18 May 2025

The Sunday before three of the biggest AI events of Q2. Jensen Huang took the Computex stage in the evening PT (Monday morning Taipei). Microsoft Build and Google I/O were both ~24-48 hours away. Press embargoes loaded the inbox.

Top stories

  • Jensen Huang takes the Computex 2025 stage. NVIDIA’s pre-Computex keynote at the Taipei Music Center began 8 PM Pacific Sunday May 18 (11 AM Taipei May 19). Pre-announced: NVLink Fusion opening NVLink to third-party CPUs and accelerators (MediaTek, Marvell, Alchip, Astera Labs, Synopsys, Cadence, Fujitsu and Qualcomm); the DGX Spark desktop AI system (1 petaflop, 128 GB LPDDR5X); an RTX Pro Server with RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell; a planned 10,000-Blackwell-GPU AI supercomputer in Taiwan with Foxconn, TSMC and the Taiwanese government. via NVIDIA
  • EU Council presidency moves on AI rule simplification. The Council presidency sent a letter to the European Parliament aiming at a first-reading agreement on streamlining certain rules of the AI Act — an early step in what became the ‘AI omnibus’ simplification track.
  • Microsoft Build 2025 eve. Set to open Monday May 19 in Seattle. Press embargoes loaded what Microsoft would announce as the ‘open agentic web’: seven new in-house AI models, GitHub Copilot agent mode/code review reaching ~15M devs, plus tooling for orchestration across platforms.
  • Google I/O 2025 eve. Set to open Tuesday May 20 at Shoreline Amphitheatre. Sundar Pichai’s ‘deployment season’ framing for Gemini across Search, Workspace, Meet, Chrome, Android and the Gemini app.

Quiet corners

No frontier-model releases or major lab announcements landed on May 18 itself. Notable reasoning arxiv papers (‘AdaptThink’, ‘Thinkless’) were submitted on May 19, not Sunday.

By the numbers

  • 3 events — Computex, Build, I/O — opening over 48 hours
  • 10,000 — Blackwell GPUs in the planned Foxconn/Taiwan supercomputer
  • 1 PFLOPS / 128 GB — DGX Spark desktop specs
  • Most-mentioned company: NVIDIA

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 18 May 2025.