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Musk Lawyer’s Question for Sam Altman on the Stand: Are You Trustworthy? (Tue, 12 May 2026)
Mr. Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, said on Tuesday that he worried Elon Musk wanted control of the A.I. lab.
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Anthropic in Talks to Raise Funding at a $950 Billion Valuation (Tue, 12 May 2026)
The start-up, which recently released a powerful A.I. model called Mythos and is separately battling with the Pentagon, was previously valued at $380 billion.
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A.I. and Humans Battle It Out in a Cybersecurity Showdown (Tue, 12 May 2026)
Experts and college students used A.I. agents to try to break into and defend computer networks in a national competition. The agents did all right on their own, too.
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Is Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Really a Cybersecurity Risk? (Tue, 12 May 2026)
Anthropic said that Claude Mythos was too dangerous to release to the public. That claim has reopened an old debate over cybersecurity.
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Silicon Valley’s A.I. Lobbying Blitz Reaches a Fever Pitch (Wed, 13 May 2026)
OpenAI and Anthropic are opening offices in Washington, hiring lobbyists and spending more than ever to win over federal lawmakers.
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Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I. (Wed, 13 May 2026)
Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.
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Tired of Hacked Passwords? Help Is on the Way. (Wed, 13 May 2026)
Apps from Apple, Google and others can assist in making your online accounts more secure, even as new ways of logging in continue to take off.
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Andreessen Horowitz Is Playing Politics Like No Other (Wed, 13 May 2026)
“If you think there’s a lot of money in politics now,” Marc Andreessen said in 2000, “you haven’t seen anything yet.” His firm is now the biggest known spender on this campaign cycle.
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Anduril Raises $5 Billion in Funding and Is Valued at $61 Billion (Wed, 13 May 2026)
The start-up, which makes A.I.-backed weapons, was valued at $61 billion in the financing round, double what it was a year ago.
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Nvidia C.E.O. Jensen Huang Hitches Ride With Trump to China After Last-Minute Invite (Tue, 12 May 2026)
Jensen Huang boarded Air Force One in Alaska, joining a delegation of more than a dozen business leaders accompanying President Trump on his trip to Beijing.
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Sam Altman has been targeted in a backlash against A.I. (Tue, 12 May 2026)
An incendiary device was thrown at Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco in April.
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This is Sam Altman’s first time testifying in court. (Tue, 12 May 2026)
The chief executive
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Here’s the latest. (Tue, 12 May 2026)
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EBay Rejects GameStop’s $55 Billion Takeover Bid (Tue, 12 May 2026)
The online marketplace called the cash-and-stock proposal “neither credible nor attractive.”
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China Sought Access to Anthropic’s Newest A.I. The Answer Was No. (Tue, 12 May 2026)
The latest artificial intelligence models from Anthropic and OpenAI are extending the United States’ lead over China and intensifying the rivalry between the countries.
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Start-Up Raises $1.3 Billion for an A.I. ‘Grid’ (Tue, 12 May 2026)
As tech giants dominate the hardware needed to build artificial intelligence, Amp hopes to create an alternative.
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Wrongful Death Lawsuits Against OpenAI Test a New Strategy (Tue, 12 May 2026)
The cases seek to use consumer product safety laws to rein in chatbot companies.
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Instructure Strikes Deal for Hackers for Return of Canvas Data (Tue, 12 May 2026)
Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given the hackers in exchange for the stolen data.
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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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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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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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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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