AI News — Wednesday, May 6, 2026
32 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
Peter Sarlin’s QuTwo reaches $380M valuation in angel round
Marc Lore says that AI will soon enable anyone open a restaurant
SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw
‘I Actually Thought He Was Going to Hit Me,’ OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Says of Elon Musk
Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences
OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury
Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests
Silicon Valley bets $200M on AI data centers floating in the ocean
Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri
Character.AI sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license
Microsoft gives up on Xbox Copilot AI
Apple could let you pick a favorite AI model in iOS 27
Google Home gets upgraded Gemini voice assistant and new camera controls
The Download: inside the Musk v. Altman trial, and AI for democracy
Do We Really Need Smarter AI to Cure Cancer?
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
A blueprint for using AI to strengthen democracy
Greg Brockman Defends $30B OpenAI Stake: ‘Blood, Sweat, and Tears’
Week one of the Musk v. Altman trial: What it was like in the room
Perfectly Aligning AI’s Values With Humanity’s Is Impossible
Tailoring AI solutions for health care needs
DAIMON Robotics Wants to Give Robot Hands a Sense of Touch
Deepfake Detection Dataset Aims to Keep Up With Generative AI
Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built
DeepInfra on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Long-Context Multimodal Intelligence for Documents, Audio and Video Agents
How to build scalable web apps with OpenAI's Privacy Filter
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI