Attorneys delivered closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial on Thursday in a final attempt to convince a judge and jury that their respective clients, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are the most well-intentioned, truth-telling stewards of OpenAI’s founding nonprofit mission. A judgement could be delivered as soon as next week, ending a decade-long battle between two of the technology industry’s most influential entrepreneurs.But regardless of the outcome, there is a wide set of losers in this case. Based on ample amounts of evidence, it appears that the people worst off are the employees, policymakers, and members of the…
There’s nothing new about products designed to be addictive. The food and drink industry spends millions making flavors that keep customers coming back. And smoking and alcohol are huge industries built around addictive products. But what about technology? Designers of software, tools and apps obviously want to create “sticky” products…
Social platforms, brands and streamers are all using the same vertical format, but they are not chasing the same business.The vertical drama format raises questions that miss the bigger business story. The category has already split into at least four models: vertical as a paid product, social programming, marketing and…
Meta is beefing up its age-verification mechanisms with an AI system that analyzes images and videos on Instagram and Facebook for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure, to identify and delete accounts of users under the age of 13. The company announced the move amid a wave of…
Two announcements in a single week pushed enterprise AI agents past a line that boardrooms have not yet drawn. On May 7, AWS previewed Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, a managed capability built with Coinbase and Stripe that lets agents autonomously pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents…
Employees at Google DeepMind in London have voted to unionize as part of a bid to block the AI lab from providing its technology to the US and Israeli militaries.In a letter addressed to Google’s managing director for the UK and Ireland, Debbie Weinstein, the workers asked the company to…
MVP Promotions co-founder Nakisa Bidarian made it clear he’d love to book a rematch between Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm in MMA. Unfortunately for MVP, Rousey has said Saturday’s clash with fellow legend Gina Carano is her last fight.Rousey doubled down on it during the ceremonial weigh-ins for the historic…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is facing protests against its expected initial public offering from some of the same advocacy groups that helped erase $600 billion from Tesla’s market cap early last year.SpaceX’s IPO is poised to be the largest ever, raising tens of billions of dollars for the Musk-founded company and…
In the wake of last night’s display, the northern lights may be visible this Friday night in northern U.S. states and Canada after forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted a G1 geomagnetic storm may strike overnight. With a new moon on Saturday, May 16, the sky will…
If you use Google’s Chrome browser for desktop, there’s probably a Gemini Nano AI model running on your computer right now and taking up about 4 GB of space. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but if you didn’t know about it and don’t want it, there’s a way to…
The ultimate open-world driving title is headed for its sixth release. Forza Horizon 6 is set in Japan and from the looks of the upcoming title, it is set to be the most beautiful version of the title ever released.Here is everything you need to know about the release date,…
Are you even online in 2026 if you haven’t experienced the verbal tics of ChatGPT? It loves goblins, em dashes, and “it’s not A; it’s B” sentence constructions. But what you might not know is that the chatbot also has plenty of strange phrases it loves to say in Chinese,…
Updated on May 13 as Google launches Googlebook to take on Windows.Microsoft is changing Windows on most PCs. Critical Secure Boot certificates will expire for the first time ever in June. First launched in 2011, this Windows change means new certificates must be installed on all devices before the deadline.Microsoft…
A few months before Elon Musk left OpenAI’s board of directors in February 2018, he tried to recruit Sam Altman to join a “world-class AI lab” within Tesla. Musk went as far as offering the OpenAI CEO a Tesla board seat, according to emails and testimony presented in federal court…
Google and Apple have just released matching announcements. iPhone’s new iOS 26.5 is now live, unleashing a long-awaited change to text messaging. But while Apple’s update drives headlines worldwide, Google’s change is more critical.“End-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling out today for Android and iPhone users,” Google confirmed on May…
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