1. Anthropic's fourth compute landlord this year is Elon Musk Anthropic raised Claude Code's usage limits this week and named SpaceX as the supplier underwriting the increase.

2. "Closer than I'd like": four senior developers tried to define AI coding this week, reached four different answers Simon Willison published a post on May 6 titled "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like.

3. Hackers complain AI is ruining their forums. Telus uses it to mask call-center accents. The criminals went first.

In Brief

• Mira Murati testifies Sam Altman lied about model safety review OpenAI's former CTO told the Musk v. Altman jury that Altman falsely claimed the legal department had cleared a new model. The video deposition aired Wednesday during the ongoing trial.

• Google shut down Project Mariner on May 4 Google ended its experimental web-task agent and replaced the landing page with a shutdown notice. The team said pieces of the technology will move into other Google products.

• SpaceX proposes up to $119B Texas chip fab called Terafab SpaceX filed a proposal for a multi-phase, vertically integrated semiconductor and computing facility in Texas. The price ceiling would put it among the largest single fab projects ever announced.

• DeepSeek targets $45B valuation in first outside round The Chinese lab is raising its first external capital after gaining attention in early 2025 for training a competitive LLM at a fraction of U.S. lab costs. The figure puts it within range of Anthropic and xAI funding marks.

• OpenAI opens self-serve Ads Manager for ChatGPT OpenAI launched a beta Ads Manager with CPC bidding and measurement tools for ChatGPT placements. OpenAI says ad inventory stays separated from conversation context.

• Snap and Perplexity end $400M integration deal Snap confirmed the November agreement to embed Perplexity's search inside Snapchat has been called off. Neither side disclosed the trigger or whether any payments transferred.

• Match Group slows hiring to fund AI tooling Tinder's parent told investors it is pulling back on headcount for the rest of the year because AI tools "cost a lot of money." It is the first dating-app operator to publicly trade hires for AI compute.

• Genesis AI ships GENE-26.5 robotics foundation model with hand demo The Khosla-backed startup, which raised a $105M seed, released its first model alongside a video of robotic hands performing complex manipulation. Genesis says it now operates the full stack from model to hardware.

• OpenAI publishes MRC networking protocol through OCP OpenAI released Multipath Reliable Connection, a networking protocol designed to keep large training clusters running through link failures. The spec was contributed to the Open Compute Project for vendor adoption.

• Anthropic launches financial-services agent product line Anthropic introduced a packaged set of agents for finance workflows, targeting the same buyers Microsoft and Google address with their copilots. The release follows Anthropic's recent enterprise-distribution push with asset managers.

• Google AI Overviews will pull quotes from Reddit and forums Google updated AI search to surface a "preview of perspectives" panel that links to Reddit threads and other web forums alongside generated answers. It expands Google's $60M Reddit licensing deal into the AI search surface.

• xAI revenue is shifting toward data-center capacity A TechCrunch analysis argues xAI's largest line of business is now operating GPU data centers rather than model training itself. The framing puts xAI in the same "neocloud" bucket as CoreWeave and Lambda.

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