> daily_signal(2026_05_03)
Europe just demanded the AI model the Pentagon already runs.
The Pentagon's Anthropic carve-out crossed the Atlantic. ECB on Mythos. Eurogroup Monday. NVIDIA Asia supply chain 90%. Florida AG criminal probe expands. Anthropic at $900B with a 48-hour window. Berkshire stayed out and warned about it.
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Subscribe on Substack ›1. Europe asked for Mythos. The Pentagon already has it.
The Pentagon's blacklist-with-Mythos-exception that we covered Friday is not just a US procurement story anymore.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/euro-area-finance-chiefs-to-discuss-mythos-as-concerns-mount
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-16/ecb-to-scrutinize-anthropic-s-mythos-on-call-with-executives
https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-finance-ministers-mythos-anthropic-cybersecurity
https://www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/05/01/can-anthropics-mythos-hack-europes-banks/
https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/eu-seek-access-anthropics-mythos-bundesbank/
2. NVIDIA's Asian supply share hit 90% from 65% a year ago.
The "AI sovereignty" question used to be about model access (Mythos).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-03/asian-stocks-soar-as-nvidia-increases-supply-chain-reliance-to-90-in-asia
https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/nvidias-pivot-to-physical-ai-ignites-rally-across-asian-supply-chain-4654804
3. Florida expanded the first state criminal probe of an AI company.
Yesterday's framing was that three jurisdictions fenced the consumer side of AI in seven days.
https://www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrelease/attorney-general-james-uthmeier-launches-criminal-investigation-openai-chatgpt
https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/04/27/uthmeier-expands-criminal-ai-investigation-to-usf-murders/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/26/us/university-south-florida-doctoral-student-killed-suspect
https://www.wusf.org/courts-law/2026-04-29/how-suspect-killing-two-usf-students-used-chatgpt
4. Sakana AI shipped KAME tandem speech-to-speech architecture.
The voice-agent stack has been forced to choose between fast (S2S, dumb) and smart (cascaded, slow).
https://pub.sakana.ai/kame/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02327
https://github.com/SakanaAI/kame
5. Anthropic eyes a $50B raise at a $900B valuation. 48-hour investor window.
The narrative coupling between US government posture and AI lab valuations is looser than the headlines have suggested.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/anthropic-potential-900b-valuation-round-could-happen-within-two-weeks/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/anthropic-considering-funding-offers-at-over-900-billion-value
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/anthropic-weighs-raising-funds-at-900b-valuation-topping-openai.html
∆ The counter-signal. Berkshire's $397.4 billion sat out the AI capex race, then opened the meeting with a deepfake.
Greg Abel
https://fortune.com/2026/05/02/berkshire-hathaway-cash-pile-397-billion-first-quarter-earnings-annual-meeting-attendance-greg-abel/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-02/berkshire-hathaway-s-cash-pile-surges-to-record-397-billion
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/berkshire-hathaways-first-q-without-161703919.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/02/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-annual-meeting-2026-live-updates.html