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Musk Lawsuit Dismissed, OpenAI Remains Intact
Elon Musk’s lawsuit that OpenAI had strayed from its founding public‑benefit mission was dismissed after a month‑long trial that featured testimony from Musk, Sam Altman, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and
Neurable to License Mind‑Reading Tech to Wearables
Neurable, a non‑invasive BCI startup, just secured $35 M in Series A funding and is now opening its AI‑powered brain‑sensing platform to consumer wearable makers. By licensing its EEG‑based mind‑readi
Sources and memos: Tencent employees used Claude Code to assist them with evaluating and fine-tuning the company's new Hy3 model to improve its performance (Juro Osawa/The Information)
Tencent’s AI team tapped Anthropic’s Claude Code to evaluate and fine‑tune its new Hy3 model, accelerating improvements that have already earned developer praise. Internal memos reveal the cross‑compa
Anthropic's Claude Mythos fuels AI script‑kiddie surge
AI‑driven bug‑finders have moved from research labs to the hands of hobbyist hackers, as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and DARPA’s AIxCC showcase unprecedented vulnerability detection. The surge in automa
Musk v Altman: Why the tech billionaires and former friends are now facing off in court
Elon Musk has taken his feud with OpenAI’s Sam Altman to a federal courtroom, suing for billions and demanding a reshuffle of the AI lab’s leadership. The trial arrives as OpenAI consolidates talent,
OpenAI free to sell models on AWS, Google Cloud
OpenAI's revised deal with Microsoft dissolves its effective cloud exclusivity, letting it distribute AI models through AWS, Google Cloud, and other providers while reshaping the financial and IP term
OpenAI Misses 1B User Target, Revenue Goals
OpenAI missed its internal goal of 1 billion weekly active ChatGPT users by the end of 2025 and fell short on multiple monthly revenue targets in 2026, the Wall Street Journal reports, rattling AI-lin
VandeHei's 5 Prompting Tricks for AI's Top 10%
Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei published a four-day Finish Line series aimed at helping readers get dramatically better results from AI, starting with five prompting techniques he says can put anyone i
Sources: OpenAI missed an internal goal of reaching 1B weekly active ChatGPT users by 2025's end and missed multiple monthly revenue targets earlier in 2026 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
OpenAI’s growth targets faltered, missing its 1 billion weekly active ChatGPT user goal and early‑2026 revenue marks, prompting a strategic shift of Prism engineers to Codex and board concerns over da
Florida AG expands OpenAI criminal probe over USF murders
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier expanded his criminal investigation into OpenAI on Monday to include the slayings of two University of South Florida doctoral students, after court records show
Google Tests 'Ask YouTube' AI Search for Premium Users
Google is testing 'Ask YouTube,' an AI Mode-like conversational search for US YouTube Premium subscribers aged 18 and older, generating text summaries alongside video and Shorts results in a single pa
Qualcomm Stock Up 7% on OpenAI AI Chip Deal
Qualcomm’s shares jumped 7% after a report that the chipmaker is teaming with OpenAI to embed a custom AI chip in smartphones, but the rally later eased as analysts flagged the next catalyst. At the s
Gemini Preps Proactive Assistance, Retires Legacy Voices
Google is preparing a "Proactive Assistance" feature for Gemini that delivers personalized suggestions based on apps like Gmail and Calendar, on-screen content, and notifications, while retiring its o
Microsoft cuts AGI clause, caps revenue share to 2030
Microsoft and OpenAI have stripped the partnership of its AGI trigger, opened OpenAI to all cloud providers, and capped revenue sharing at 2030, reshaping the long‑standing alliance while Microsoft re
AI Agents Failed Most Real-World Workplace Tasks
AI's gap between building impressive technology and achieving workplace transformation remains a mystery, with recent studies showing AI agents failing most real-world tasks despite bold claims of an
ChatGPT Images 2.0 Beats Nano Banana 97-85
ZDNET tested ChatGPT Images 2.0 against Google Gemini's Nano Banana across nine image-generation prompts, and ChatGPT won decisively — scoring 97% to Nano Banana's 85% and reversing the results from a
Checkmarx Confirms Dark Web Leak of GitHub Repo Data
Checkmarx disclosed that data from its GitHub repository, accessed via the March 23 supply‑chain breach, has been posted on the dark web, prompting the firm to lock down the repo and promise customer
Systalyze Open-Sources Utilyze, Beats nvtop Accuracy
Systalyze is releasing Utilyze as a free, open-source GPU monitoring tool that exposes a flaw in standard utilization metrics from nvidia-smi, nvtop, and major cloud dashboards — they read 100% even w
Qualcomm Shares Jump 13% After OpenAI AI‑Phone Deal
Qualcomm’s stock surged after an analyst disclosed a joint effort with OpenAI and MediaTek to build an AI‑first smartphone processor, a move that could reshape the mobile AI market and intensify compe
Sony Raises PS5 Prices in 7 More Countries
Sony is raising PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal prices across seven Asian markets effective May 1, 2026, blaming 'continued pressures in the global economic landscape'—the latest leg of a worldwi
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