Google to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic as AI Infrastructure Race Intensifies

AirPods Pro 3 | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple's rumored AirPods with cameras are nearing a stage where the company will test early mass production, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Currently, Apple testers are "actively using" prototypes that are in the design validation test stage, which is one step before the production validation test stage. The AirPods' cameras "aren't designed" to snap photos or video but instead can take in "visual information in low resolution" that users can query Siri about, like asking the AI assistant what they should cook with the ingredients they have in front of them, according to Gurman. They may also use the cameras to help with things like turn-b … Read the full story at The Verge.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and CORNING, N.Y., May 7, 2026 — NVIDIA and Corning Incorporated have announced a multiyear commercial and technology partnership to dramatically expand U.S.-based manufacturing of the advanced optical […] The post NVIDIA and Corning Announce Long-Term Partnership to Strengthen US Manufacturing for AI Infrastructure appeared first on AIwire.

Security researchers at Mozilla say Anthropic's Mythos has unearthed a wealth of high-severity bugs in Firefox.

Anthropic says it’ll use all the AI compute capacity from SpaceX’s ‘Colossus 1’ data facility in Memphis.

Meanwhile, the independent generative AI vendor expanded usage limits and reduced subscriber usage restrictions for big customers.

The $100 Fitbit Air is available for preorder today.

The Fitbit Air can be preordered today and will be available starting May 26th. | Image: Google It's a Whoop dupe. That was my first thought when I saw the new $99 Google Fitbit Air. You can hardly blame me. The band is screenless with a metallic fabric clasp. My eyes flickered between the Fitbit Air and my wrist, where I'm wearing a Whoop MG. Was I not seeing double? But as my press briefing went on, my opinion started changing. The Air is sort of like the OG Fitbits that Whoop then duped once Fitbit went all in on smartwatches. Think back to 2012, when the Fitbit One could clip to your pants, be turned into a pendant, or dangle from a keychain. That device was mostly a pedometer, whereas the Air is more of a modern, modular sensor t … Read the full story at The Verge.

Google’s A.I. search technology is far from perfect (don’t count on it for celebrity news), but it excels at tasks like picking out groceries and detecting scams.