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Microsoft’s C.E.O. Intervened When OpenAI Fired Sam Altman, Musk’s Lawyer Claims (Mon, 11 May 2026)
Elon Musk’s lawyer argued that Microsoft’s Satya Nadella played a role in getting Mr. Altman his job back at OpenAI when he was briefly fired in 2023.
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Inside the Elon Musk-OpenAI Trial Courtroom (Mon, 11 May 2026)
The tech leaders, with combined net worths exceeding $670 billion, have brought props to court and traded icy stares as their legal dispute reaches a denouement.
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Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable (Fri, 08 May 2026)
As it adapts to the artificial intelligence era, the company is pushing many of its 78,000 workers to use the technology, and preparing to lay some of them off.
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Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School (Mon, 11 May 2026)
“It seems every other day I am reading a story about a massive insider trading scandal.”
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Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw (Mon, 11 May 2026)
The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert said.
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The Hopelessness of ‘The Audacity’ (Fri, 08 May 2026)
In AMC’s merciless satire, the tech lords are extracting all they can from the business (and us) before everything goes to hell.
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Five Ways A.I. Search Beats an Old-School Google Search (Thu, 07 May 2026)
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.
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Anthropic’s C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year (Wed, 06 May 2026)
The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up’s need for more computing power.
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Elon Musk’s Confidante Shivon Zilis Is Cast as His Inside Source at OpenAI (Wed, 06 May 2026)
Shivon Zilis worked closely with Elon Musk while she was on OpenAI’s board. Her ties to the world’s richest man were detailed in a landmark trial on Wednesday.
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Meditating or Rebooting? A Robot Buddhist Monk Comes to South Korea. (Thu, 07 May 2026)
Gabi, the newest monk at a temple in Seoul that is looking to spread Buddhism, vowed to not overcharge as it seeks enlightenment.
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American Factories Lag in Adopting A.I. This Drugmaker Is an Exception. (Wed, 06 May 2026)
A Bristol Myers Squibb plant that makes cancer drugs was the only manufacturer in the U.S. recognized for innovation by the World Economic Forum this year.
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Elon Musk Wanted OpenAI to Go Commercial, Greg Brockman Testifies (Tue, 05 May 2026)
Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, testified in a trial pitting Mr. Musk against his company that the world’s richest man was eager to change how it operated as a nonprofit.
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Apple Reaches $250 Million Settlement Over Claims It Misled People on A.I. (Tue, 05 May 2026)
Some iPhone owners will be eligible to receive $25 to $95 over claims that the tech giant oversold its artificial intelligence system, Apple Intelligence.
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Coinbase Lays Off 14% of Employees as A.I. Changes Work (Tue, 05 May 2026)
The largest U.S. crypto exchange said it was cutting jobs because of cryptocurrency market volatility and to “optimize” for the artificial intelligence era.
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Ford Says an Affordable Electric Pickup Truck is Still Coming Next Year (Tue, 05 May 2026)
Ford Motor has written off $20 billion in electric vehicle investments but says it is forging ahead with an electric pickup that will sell for $30,000 next year.
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S.E.C. Settles Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Over His Twitter Disclosures (Mon, 04 May 2026)
The agency, which has been pulling back on lawsuits against major companies, ended a case that had accused Mr. Musk of hiding his purchases of Twitter stock. He agreed to pay $1.5 million.
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Elon Musk’s Lawyers Ask OpenAI’s President Why He Is Worth $30 Billion (Mon, 04 May 2026)
The legal team implied in a federal trial that Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, was driven by greed rather than building safe A.I.
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White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released (Mon, 04 May 2026)
The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A.I. models before they are made publicly available.
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Jeeves and Ask.com Shut Down After Almost 30 Years (Wed, 06 May 2026)
The pioneering search engine shut down on May 1, after nearly 30 years in operation.
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Driving Electric in Costa Rica Is Surprisingly Doable (Sun, 03 May 2026)
The charging network is spotty, but it’s a small country.
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