DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, May 3, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, May 3, 2026Today's edition opens with the close of week one in the Musk versus Altman federal trial, where Elon Musk took the stand in Oakland to argue Sam Altman duped him into bankrolling OpenAI. The Pentagon signed AI deals with seven major tech companies for use on classified networks while pointedly excluding Anthropic. Microsoft pushed Agent 365 into general availability with cross-cloud reach into Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud. Meta acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence. Replit marked its tenth anniversary by giving every user a free day of Agent access. Protesters shut down a Berkeley Forum event featuring Google's Jeff Dean. Alibaba's Qwen team partnered with Fireworks AI to bring frontier Chinese models into US data centers. Adobe demoed an agentic Firefly that orchestrates Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere from a single prompt. Salesforce went headless with a unified agent API across its customer relationship management platform. ClawBank's autonomous agent Manfred legally incorporated itself in Delaware. Snap announced one thousand AI-driven layoffs. And NIST published its evaluation of DeepSeek V4 Pro, finding the Chinese model trails US frontier models by roughly eight months but is more cost-efficient on most cost-adjusted tasks.DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning.Send us fan mail#AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #Pentagon #Agents #DXToday