The 10 most important AI stories of May 6, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
Anthropic PBC has signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bolster computing resources and meet surging demand for its Claude artificial intelligence software.
Nvidia Corp. bought $500 million worth of rights for shares in the fiber-optic cable maker Corning Inc. as part of a broader partnership between the two companies aimed at expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman spoke during the second week of a month-long trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman.
Apple is set to revamp Siri and will let users choose from a range of outside artificial intelligence services to power features across its software, building on a strategy to turn its devices into a comprehensive AI platform. Mark Gurman explains (Source: Bloomberg)
The Pentagon awarded a $500 million contract to Meta Platforms Inc.-backed Scale AI to help sift through data and assist in decision-making, the latest step in the US military’s effort to rely more on artificial intelligence.
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 intelligence models, according to people familiar with the matter. (Source: Bloomberg)
SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it. It is also prohibiting customers' agents use to a select few like Nvidia's NemoClaw.
The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.
Value soars in ongoing fundraising discussions as investors including Tencent seek slice of AI lab
xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.
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