Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 5 stories

1. 1Google’s Gemma 4 open AI models use “speculative decoding” to get up to 3x faster - Ars Technica78
2. 2Google speeds up Gemma 4 threefold with multi-token prediction
3. 3Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full-stack, demo shows

The AI products people actually use. · 41 stories

1. 1Anthropic is letting Claude agents ‘dream’ so they don’t sleep on the job78
2. 2Atlassian opens Teamwork Graph and pushes Rovo into agentic execution at Team ’26
3. 3ChatGPT ads are now open to small businesses as OpenAI builds a full self-serve ad platform

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 18 stories

1. 1Deepseek nears $45 billion valuation as China's state chip fund leads round85
2. 2Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’
3. 3DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 24 stories

1. 1Anthropic taps SpaceX's Colossus-1 data center for 220,000 GPUs to power Claude92
2. 2OpenAI built a networking protocol with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to fix AI supercomputer bottlenecks
3. 3Elon Musk's Terafab chip factory in Texas could cost up to $119 billion, filing shows

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 50 stories

1. 1Anthropic’s Amodei Says ‘80X’ Revenue, Usage Increase Surprised Company72
2. 2Google Chrome Might Have Installed an AI Model Onto Your Device Without You Knowing - CNET
3. 3Musk tried to recruit Altman for role at Tesla before falling out at OpenAI