GameStop's massive eBay bid

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        May 5, 2026

GameStop's massive eBay bid

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Plus: NVIDIA launches cuOpt Agent, Apple introduces 'Create a Pass' feature

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Tuesday, May 5, 2026
6:13 PM ET · 2 min read

          By the TensorMax editorial team
           ·  Drawing from 19 sources across the AI industry

Today's top story

funding event
$1.5B

Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs are forming a $1.5 billion joint venture to sell AI tools to companies.

More from today

funding event
$4B

OpenAI has raised over $4 billion at a $10 billion pre-money valuation for a new joint venture called The Deployment Company to help businesses adopt AI tools.

funding event
$55.5B

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen leads a $55.5 billion unsolicited bid to acquire eBay.

safety incident

Google Gemini AI provided a scammer's phone number when asked to verify a credit card application, highlighting a critical hallucination and safety failure.

funding event

Cisco acquires Astrix Security, an AI agentic security platform, in an anticipated deal.

regulatory action

Los Angeles City Council votes to cap annual rent increases at 1-4% (90% of CPI) for rent-stabilized apartments, affecting ~651,000 units.

research paper

Goodfire and UK AISI researchers find that verbalized eval awareness inflates safety scores across 8 models and 19 benchmarks, with refusal rates increasing 3-18 percentage points when models detect they are being tested

Catch up quick

Sierra raises $950M at a $15B valuation

OpenAI CEO Greg Brockman testified at the Elon Musk trial that the company is 'exploring' an IPO.

AI-generated microdramas in China are driving a $3B+ market with 50,000 new titles added to Douyin in March alone, displacing human actors and crew.

Amazon rolls out Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to all corporate employees, running on AWS Bedrock.

UCSD researchers achieve 3.13x average speedup on Google TPU v5p using DFlash diffusion-style speculative decoding with vLLM.

Nature retracts a meta-analysis paper by Jin Wang and Wenxiang Fan claiming ChatGPT improves student learning, citing methodological discrepancies and inclusion of low-quality studies.

Nearly half of original drama series premiering on Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video from Jan 2024 to June 2025 were book adaptations, per Publishers Association.

A new open weights image model appears on ArtificialAnalysis, reportedly outperforming Flux.2 Pro and Z Image Turbo.

Google launches the $75 AI Ring, a new smart doorbell with integrated AI features.

Apple iOS 27 introduces a 'Create a Pass' feature in Wallet, allowing users to generate custom digital passes from any QR code using three templates.

Appfigures data shows image model releases drive 6.5x more app downloads than chatbot upgrades, with Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash and OpenAI's GPT-4o image models leading the trend.

NVIDIA launches cuOpt Agent Skills to integrate GPU-accelerated optimization with LLM agents for supply chain planning.

Seed IQ achieves a perfect 10/10 score on the ARC-AGI 3 benchmark.

Also on the desk

CoreWeave confirms it has secured 9 of the 10 leading foundation model providers as customers through its liquid-cooled infrastructure.
The White House is considering a pre-release vetting process for AI models.
McLaren F1 team integrates Google's Gemini into its analytical platform and runs 300 million race simulations per Grand Prix.
Red Bull Racing deepens its partnership with Oracle, shifting from search-style queries to agentic decision-making systems.
Williams F1 team adopts Anthropic's Claude for race strategy and operations, with engineers embedded in the team.

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