Snap and Perplexity Amicably End $400M AI Search Integration Deal Snap and Perplexity have ended their planned partnership, the social media company disclosed in its latest quarterly earnings report. The deal, first announced last November and valued at roughly $400... AI Partnership Perplexity Snap Social Media May 6, 2026 News
Appeals Court Kills FCC Rule That Sought to Ban Broadband Discrimination A federal appeals court today struck down Federal Communications Commission rules that prohibited broadband providers from discriminating in how they deploy internet access. The decision, handed down ... Broadband FCC Internet Net Neutrality Tech Policy May 6, 2026 News
Aurora and McLane Partner to Launch Driverless Truck Routes Across Texas Aurora Innovation has signed a landmark agreement with McLane, one of the largest supply-chain services companies in the United States, to operate driverless truck routes throughout Texas. The deal re... AI Autonomous Vehicles Logistics Texas Transportation May 6, 2026 News
Samsung Joins the Trillion-Dollar Club as AI Chip Demand Soars Samsung Electronics has officially entered the trillion-dollar valuation club. Buoyed by relentless demand for high-bandwidth memory and advanced semiconductors powering generative AI workloads, the K... AI Market Cap Samsung Semiconductors TSMC May 6, 2026 News
SAP Bets $1.16 Billion on German AI Startup Prior Labs and Nvidia’s NemoClaw SAP has unveiled one of the most aggressive AI bets in its fifty-year history. The German software giant plans to spend $1.16 billion to acquire Prior Labs, an artificial-intelligence research outfit ... AI Enterprise Software M&A Nvidia SAP May 6, 2026 News
DeepSeek Eyes $45 Billion Valuation in First-Ever Funding Round DeepSeek, the Chinese AI research lab that sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley in early 2025, is now preparing for its first-ever venture capital round—and the numbers are staggering. In a matter o... AI China DeepSeek Semiconductors Venture Capital May 6, 2026 News
DOJ Exposes Deep Ties Between Karakurt Ransomware Gang and Russian Government The U.S. Justice Department has pulled back the curtain on one of the most troubling relationships in modern cybercrime: the nexus between Russian ransomware gangs and the Kremlin itself. In a sentenc... Cybersecurity DOJ Enterprise Security Ransomware Russia May 6, 2026 News
Braintrust Tells All Customers to Rotate API Keys After AWS Cloud Breach Braintrust, a fast-growing startup that provides an “operating system for engineers building AI software,” has disclosed a security incident that exposed customer API keys stored in one of its Amazon ... AI API Keys Cloud Security Cybersecurity Data Breach May 6, 2026 News
Apple Agrees to $250 Million Settlement Over Siri AI Advertising Claims Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of overstating the artificial intelligence capabilities of Siri. The settlement, filed this week in Californi... AI Apple Consumer Tech Legal Siri May 6, 2026
Silicon Valley Bets $200 Million on Floating AI Data Centers in the Ocean A startup named Panthalassa has raised $200 million to build AI data centers that float in the ocean and draw power from waves. The concept transforms a land-based energy and cooling problem into a da... AI Cloud Data Centers Infrastructure Renewable Energy May 6, 2026
Palo Alto Networks Rushes Patch for Firewall Zero-Day Under Active Attack Palo Alto Networks is preparing an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability in its PAN-OS firewall software that threat actors are already exploiting in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-030... Cybersecurity Enterprise Security Firewall Palo Alto Networks Zero-Day May 6, 2026
One command turns any open-source repo into an AI agent backdoor.... VentureBeat surfaced a fresh development on cybersecurity and operational risk: One command turns any open-source repo into an AI agent backdoor. OpenClaw proved no supply-chain scanner has a detectio... Cybersecurity Enterprise IT Risk Tech News May 5, 2026