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Google DeepMind Workers Vote To Unionize Over Military AI Deals (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 Google AI

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Xbox “will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console” as part of a strategic shift (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-6 Mobile Xbox

AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $10.25B, Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, as AI chip demand stays strong (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-6 AI AMD

Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a “personalized” Siri in 2024 (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 Apple

Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the “revenue backlog” Google disclosed last week (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-6 Google

Moving To Mainframe Can Be Cheaper Than Sticking With VMware (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 VMware

Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testified about tense negotiations with Musk in 2017, saying “he knows rockets, he knows electric cars” but “does not know AI” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 AI

Musk v. Altman: on his second day of testimony, Greg Brockman said that OpenAI expects to spend $50B on computing in 2026, up from $30M in 2017 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6

Sources: Meta is building agentic tools, including an OpenClaw-like assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model to help users create AI bots (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 AI

Subquadratic launches with a $29M seed and debuts SubQ, an LLM that uses a subquadratic sparse attention architecture to achieve a 12M-token context window (siliconangle.com)
2026-5-6

DAEMON Tools trojanized in supply-chain attack to deploy backdoor (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6

Kids Bypass Age Verification With Fake Moustaches (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6

Blitzy, which says its platform autonomously completes months of software development, raised $200M at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total funding to $232M+ (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-5-6

This $53 lifetime membership deal unlocks 90+ cybersecurity courses (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6

The EOL Blind Spot in Your CVE Feed: What SCA Tools Miss (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6

OpenAI rolls out a beta version of its new Ads Manager tool to advertisers in the US, making it easier for SMBs to buy ChatGPT ads on a cost-per-click basis (www.axios.com)
2026-5-6

US Government Warns of Severe CopyFail Bug Affecting Major Versions of Linux (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 Linux

Sources: Apple plans to let users choose from multiple third-party AI models to perform tasks like generating and editing text and images in iOS 27 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 IOS AI Apple

Student hacked Taiwan high-speed rail to trigger emergency brakes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-6 Taiwan

OpenAI says GPT-5.5 Instant produces 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims “on high-stakes prompts covering areas like medicine, law, and finance” (www.axios.com)
2026-5-6

OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 Instant, which it says is smarter, with more accurate and personalized responses, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant as ChatGPT's default model (openai.com)
2026-5-6

Oscars Bans AI Actors and Writing From Awards (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-5-6 AI

Pennsylvania sues Character.AI, alleging that one of its characters posed as a psychiatrist, as the state seeks to prevent chatbots from impersonating doctors (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-6 AI chatbot

Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel and Apple executives visited a Samsung plant in Texas to explore producing core chips for its devices in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 Intel Samsung Apple Texas

Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the group's leadership, including bringing over executives from Microsoft's CoreAI engineering unit where she worked before (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-6 Microsoft Xbox

VS Code Update Added Copilot As Default Co-Author To Git Commits (slashdot.org)
2026-5-6

Sao Paulo-based Enter, which uses AI to handle litigation for companies like Airbnb, raised $100M led by Founders Fund at a $1.2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 AI Airbnb

Aylo says it will restore Pornhub access in the UK, but only for users who have verified their age via iOS 26.4's device-level age verification system (www.bbc.com)
2026-5-6 IOS

Intel stock jumps 12%+, hitting a new all-time high, on a report that Apple has had early-stage talks with Intel about enlisting Intel's chipmaking services (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-6 Intel Apple

Anthropic unveils 10 new AI agents for the financial sector, including for drafting pitch decks, reviewing financial statements, and escalating compliance cases (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-6 AI

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