Anthropic Taps SpaceX's Colossus 1 for Claude
May 06, 2026: Anthropic Taps SpaceX's Colossus 1 for Claude - Anthropic will use SpaceX's Colossus 1 supercomputer, originally built by xAI in 2024, to power its Claude chatbot. The Memphis-based system houses over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs delivering 300 megawatts of compute, serving Claude Pro and Max users while expanding API and Claude Code usage limits. The pa...
Herd Security Raises $3M for AI Training Platform
May 06, 2026: Herd Security Raises $3M for AI Training Platform - Herd Security, a security awareness training startup founded in 2025, has raised $3 million to expand its AI-powered platform. The funding will support new training categories in HR and AI, improved video generation, and a broader partnership ecosystem. The platform uses agentic AI to generate cont...
IBM CEO: Openness, Software Growth Key to AI Win
May 06, 2026: IBM CEO: Openness, Software Growth Key to AI Win - At IBM Think 2026, CEO Arvind Krishna outlined IBM's AI strategy in an analyst AMA session, emphasizing openness, ecosystem integration, and a deliberate shift away from proprietary positioning. He identified software growth as the key metric for AI success and cited IBM's generative AI book of busi...
Hugging Face Launches First-Ever Robot App Store
May 06, 2026: Hugging Face Launches First-Ever Robot App Store - Hugging Face has launched an app store for its Reachy Mini robot, featuring over 200 community-built applications available for free download. The $299 open-source robot has sold around 10,000 units since debuting in July 2025. Unlike smartphone app stores, creators currently have no monetization o...
Apple Pays $250M to Settle Siri AI Lawsuit
May 06, 2026: Apple Pays $250M to Settle Siri AI Lawsuit - Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a false advertising class-action lawsuit over its overhyped Apple Intelligence Siri features. US customers who bought an iPhone 15 or 16 between June 10, 2024 and March 29, 2025 could receive up to $95 per device. The lawsuit alleged Apple deceived con...
Adobe Acrobat Gets AI Productivity Agent for PDFs
May 06, 2026: Adobe Acrobat Gets AI Productivity Agent for PDFs - Adobe has launched a productivity agent embedded in Acrobat that uses AI to transform static PDF content into tailored presentations, podcasts, social posts and more. The tool is available through two new tiers: Acrobat Express and Studio, which includes full AI PDF creation capabilities. The agent...
Google Kills Project Mariner Web Agent
May 06, 2026: Google Kills Project Mariner Web Agent - Google has shut down Project Mariner, its experimental web-browsing AI agent designed to perform tasks across the internet on behalf of users. The project was officially closed on May 4th, 2026, as first reported by Wired. The Project Mariner landing page now displays a farewell message indicating ...
Simulations Plus, Nvidia Team Up for AI Drugs
May 06, 2026: Simulations Plus, Nvidia Team Up for AI Drugs - Simulations Plus has announced a partnership with Nvidia to advance AI-driven drug development. The collaboration aims to leverage Nvidia's computing capabilities alongside Simulations Plus's modeling expertise to accelerate pharmaceutical research and development.
Dell and Intel Build Security Into AI Factory Infrastructure
May 06, 2026: Dell and Intel Build Security Into AI Factory Infrastructure - Dell Technologies and Intel are addressing a critical security gap in AI factories, where systems scale faster than they can be governed. Traditional cybersecurity models are inadequate for environments where data flows continuously across cloud, on-premises and edge systems, and autonomous agents a...
Snap and Perplexity's $400M AI Deal Collapses
May 06, 2026: Snap and Perplexity's $400M AI Deal Collapses - Snap has ended its $400 million partnership with AI search startup Perplexity, the company disclosed during its Q1 earnings report. The deal, announced last November, would have integrated Perplexity's AI search engine into Snapchat's Chat interface, with Perplexity paying Snap in cash and equity ov...
DeepSeek Valuation Doubles to $45B in Weeks
May 06, 2026: DeepSeek Valuation Doubles to $45B in Weeks - Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first venture capital round, with its valuation jumping from $20 billion to $45 billion in just weeks, according to the Financial Times and Bloomberg. The round is reportedly led by a state investment vehicle, with Tencent and Alibaba also in talks to...
Nvidia, Corning Partner to Expand Optical Network Supply
May 06, 2026: Nvidia, Corning Partner to Expand Optical Network Supply - Nvidia and Corning have announced a partnership to boost U.S. optical network component production. Corning will build three new factories in North Carolina and Texas, increasing its optical hardware capacity tenfold and creating 3,000 jobs. Nvidia has also received warrants to purchase up to 18 mil...
Subquadratic Launches With $29M, 12M-Token AI
May 05, 2026: Subquadratic Launches With $29M, 12M-Token AI - Subquadratic has launched with $29 million in seed funding, introducing SubQ, a large language model featuring a 12 million-token context window — roughly 120 books of text. The company claims its sparse attention architecture makes SubQ over 50 times faster and cheaper than leading frontier models ...
OpenAI Gifts 8,000 Developers 10x Codex Access
May 05, 2026: OpenAI Gifts 8,000 Developers 10x Codex Access - OpenAI is rewarding over 8,000 developers who applied for its sold-out GPT-5.5 party with a surprise consolation prize: a tenfold increase in Codex rate limits on personal ChatGPT accounts, valid through June 5. The boost applies to all applicants regardless of whether they were accepted, waitliste...
ServiceNow Launches Unified AI Governance Control Tower
May 05, 2026: ServiceNow Launches Unified AI Governance Control Tower - ServiceNow unveiled a major expansion of its AI platform, centering on its AI Control Tower, a governance hub for monitoring, managing and securing AI models and agentic workflows. The updates address enterprise concerns that AI deployments are proliferating faster than organizations can govern them...
AI to Make Half of Business Decisions by 2030
May 05, 2026: AI to Make Half of Business Decisions by 2030 - A new IBM poll reveals that CEOs expect artificial intelligence to autonomously handle 48% of operational decisions by 2030. The shift is anticipated primarily in areas governed by clear, established rules and procedures. The findings highlight growing executive confidence in AI's role in business ...
iOS 27 Lets Users Choose Their Own AI Model
May 05, 2026: iOS 27 Lets Users Choose Their Own AI Model - Apple plans to let iPhone users select from multiple third-party AI models in iOS 27, according to Bloomberg. The feature, internally called Extensions, will allow AI from installed apps to power Siri, Writing Tools, Image Playground, and more. Google and Anthropic models are already being tested, w...
Google Pushes Gemini AI Into Government Workforces
May 05, 2026: Google Pushes Gemini AI Into Government Workforces - Google Cloud is targeting government agencies with its Gemini for Government platform, positioning AI as both a productivity tool and modernization engine for what it calls an agentic workforce. Field CTO Chris Hein outlined a phased approach starting with augmenting existing workflows, citing press...
DeepMind Workers Unionize Over Military AI Contracts
May 05, 2026: DeepMind Workers Unionize Over Military AI Contracts - Google DeepMind staff at its London headquarters have voted to unionize, with 98 percent of CWU members supporting the move. Employees are demanding the company stop its AI technology from being used by Israel and the US military, with one worker stating the work is "helping make genocide cheaper, f...
Soderbergh Uses Meta AI in Lennon Documentary
May 05, 2026: Soderbergh Uses Meta AI in Lennon Documentary - Steven Soderbergh has revealed that 10 percent of his upcoming documentary John Lennon: The Last Interview features AI-generated video footage, created in collaboration with Meta. The film centers on Lennon's final interview, promoting his Double Fantasy album with Yoko Ono, and uses AI to visualize...
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