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AI Briefing: OpenAI's $50B Bet and the Geopolitical Veto
OpenAI to spend $50B on compute, Anthropic targets Wall Street, and Beijing blocks Meta's $2B Manus AI deal. Read today's AI Wrap.
- Briefing date: 2026-05-06
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Stories covered on 2026-05-06
- Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla
WIRED · 2026-05-06
Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans in 2017 to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.
- Singapore Parliament Pledges No Jobless Growth in AI Era, CNA Reports
Bloomberg · 2026-05-06
Singapore’s lawmakers unanimously passed a motion affirming that the country will not have jobless growth amid the artificial intelligence transition, CNA reported.
- A Groq-Powered Agentic Research Assistant with LangGraph, Tool Calling, Sub-Agents, and Agentic Memory: Lets Built It
MarkTechPost · 2026-05-06
In this tutorial, we build a Groq-powered agentic research workflow that runs directly using Groq’s free OpenAI-compatible inference endpoint The post A Groq-Powered Agentic
- Chatbots Need Guardrails to Prevent Delusions and Psychosis
IEEE Spectrum · 2026-05-06
Millions of people worldwide are turning to chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude, and a proliferating class of specialized AI companionship apps for friendship
- Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX
Ars Technica · 2026-05-06
Deal follows others with Microsoft, Amazon, and more.
- TSMC taps wind power as AI chip demand soars, Taiwan feels energy crunch
Ars Technica · 2026-05-06
TSMC backs renewables during record demand for energy-hungry chip manufacturing.
- Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.
TechCrunch · 2026-05-06
Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
- Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’
TechCrunch · 2026-05-06
The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.
- Is xAI a neocloud now?
TechCrunch · 2026-05-06
xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.
- Musk Weighed Offering Altman Tesla Board Seat, Jury Told
Bloomberg · 2026-05-06
Elon Musk at one point considered recruiting Sam Altman to serve on Tesla Inc.’s board of directors, jurors were told Wednesday at the trial over the feud between the two titans of
- Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good
Ars Technica · 2026-05-06
Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.
- Canadian officials claim OpenAI violated federal and provincial privacy laws
Engadget · 2026-05-06
Regulators took issue with the amount of personal data the company collected and its approach to consent.
- Snap's $400 million deal with Perplexity is dead
Engadget · 2026-05-06
The planned AI search feature for Snapchat never fully rolled out.
- AMD Soars on Blockbuster AI-Fueled Forecast | Bloomberg Tech 5/6/2026
Bloomberg · 2026-05-06
Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses Advanced Micro Devices' strong forecast that sent shares climbing.
- Meta-Backed Scale AI Wins $500 Million Defense Department Deal
Bloomberg · 2026-05-06
The Pentagon awarded a $500 million contract to Meta Platforms Inc.-backed Scale AI to help sift through data and assist in decision-making
- Arm Gains After Push Into AI Data Centers Bolsters Forecast
Bloomberg · 2026-05-06
Arm Holdings Plc jumped in late trading after the company delivered a solid forecast and touted the demand for a new homegrown chip
- Blackstone, KKR Consider Google Deal in Surge of AI Tie-Ups
Bloomberg · 2026-05-06
Bloomberg's Allison McNeely joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Deals." Blackstone and KKR are in talks with Alphabet to give the companies they own access to Google’s artificial
- OpenAI built a networking protocol with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to fix AI supercomputer bottlenecks
The Decoder · 2026-05-06
OpenAI has teamed up with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to develop MRC, an open source network protocol that sends data across hundreds of paths simultaneously
- Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
WIRED · 2026-05-06
In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.
- Anthropic taps SpaceX's Colossus-1 data center for 220,000 GPUs to power Claude
The Decoder · 2026-05-06
Anthropic is taking over the full computing capacity of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, more than 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs
- Apple to Let Users Choose Rival AI Models
Bloomberg · 2026-05-06
Apple will let users choose from a range of outside AI services to power features across its software, according to sources.
- How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman
TechCrunch · 2026-05-06
Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.
- Anthropic is doubling Claude Code rate limits after deal with SpaceX
Engadget · 2026-05-06
The company is also interested in SpaceX's planned orbital data centers.
- Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
WIRED · 2026-05-06
New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.
- Why Chrome may have quietly downloaded a 4GB file to your PC - and how to get rid of it
ZDNet · 2026-05-06
The file, which appears to be related to Google's on-device AI model, is harmless enough. Here's why some users may still be concerned.
- Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn’t trust Sam Altman’s words
The Verge · 2026-05-06
Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model.
- DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round
TechCrunch · 2026-05-06
The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on a fraction of the compute power and at a fraction of the cost of the big
- Google just bought a stake in the maker of Eve Online to train its AI models
Engadget · 2026-05-06
DeepMind will research player behavior in the space-based RPG.
- SpaceX may spend up to $119 billion on ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas
TechCrunch · 2026-05-06
SpaceX, Elon Musk's space company that also houses his AI company, xAI, is considering spending $55 billion, at least initially, to build a semiconductor factory in Texas
- Shivon Zilis, mother of four of Elon Musk’s children, testifies in OpenAI trial
The Guardian AI · 2026-05-06
Zilis, an executive at Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink, served on OpenAI’s board from 2020 to 2023 Shivon Zilis, a Neuralink executive and the mother of four of Elon Musk ’