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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
A US judge seated a nine-person jury in Musk v. Altman trial at a federal courthouse in California; Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were in attendance — The nine-person jury was seated on Monday in the high-stakes legal battle between longtime friends turned rivals Elon Musk and Sam Altman at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California.
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| Wired: |
Some jurors selected in the Musk v. Altman trial expressed negative feelings about Elon Musk and AI, but assured the court they would put these concerns aside — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman were spotted in the security line inside the courthouse this morning, but Elon Musk was nowhere to be found.
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| Wired: |
Elon Musk boosts an X post by Ronan Farrow promoting his New Yorker article on Sam Altman's alleged deceptions, as Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI heads to trial — The move comes as the trial for Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI kicks off in federal court in Oakland.| OpenAI: |
Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal to let OpenAI serve all its products across any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI — Amended agreement provides long-term clarity. — The rapid pace of innovation requires us to continue to evolve our partnership to benefit our customers and both companies.
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns — The ban sends a message that China is intent on keeping its AI knowledge within the country — Meta Platforms is preparing …
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
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 — The company's CFO and board have questioned the wisdom of massive data-center spending in the face of slowing growth
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for “any lawful government purpose”; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract — Google and the Department of Defense signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use Google's AI models on classified work …
More: Reuters, Jerusalem Post, Crypto Briefing, and The Japan Times
| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
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| Tim Craig / Washington Post: |
How residents in Archbald, Pennsylvania, home to ~7,000 people, are pushing back against six proposed data center campuses covering ~14% of the town's land — Developers plan to build six sprawling data center campuses in Archbald, Pennsylvania, covering about 14 percent of the town's land.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Xiaomi open sources MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT License, saying both models are among the most efficient available for agentic “claw” tasks — Xiaomi, the Chinese firm best known for its smartphones and electric vehicles, has lately been shipping some incredibly affordable … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple will let developers offer monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment starting in May, except in the US and Singapore — Apple today announced the launch of a new subscription option for App Store developers: monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment.| Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
An analysis of Internet Archive data finds that by mid-2025, ~35% of new websites published since ChatGPT's launch in late 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted — Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.
More: AI on the Internet and Wired
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| Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines: |
Renders based on photos of Samsung's upcoming smart glasses, expected to launch later this year, show a design nearly identical to Ray-Ban Meta glasses — Add Android Headlines as a preferred source on Google — Samsung's next Android XR product is reportedly a pair of smart glasses codenamed …
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| Josh Gerben / Gerben IP: |
Taylor Swift's TAS Rights Management has filed applications to trademark the singer's voice and image, aiming to protect against threats posed by AI — Taylor Swift has filed new trademark applications to protect her voice and image. — The filings, made on April 24 …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Layoffs.fyi: layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employees were announced in March 2026, making it the worst month for reported tech job cuts in at least two years — Layoffs might lift some efficiency measures, but there are other considerations — Tech companies are rushing to trade their people for more chips.| Politico: |
Senate Democrats seek an ethics provision in a landmark crypto bill to crack down on the Trump family's crypto businesses, setting up a clash with Republicans — The debate over the bill is giving Democrats a powerful point of leverage over one of the president's marquee financial policy priorities.| Scott Younker / Tom's Guide: |
FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, including $794M to scams that started on Facebook, more than on any other platform — Love, investments, and shopping scams were the most common — Social media scams caused Americans to lose $2.1 billion in 2025 …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents — Six months ago, while working on an internal productivity tool, our team made a controversial (at the time) decision: we'd build our repo with no human-written code.
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| Giada Zampano / Associated Press: |
Archaeologists and researchers at Pompeii used AI for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius — Archaeologists and researchers at the ancient Roman site of Pompeii have used artificial intelligence for the first time to digitally reconstruct …
More: Sky News, Deseret News, New York Post, The Independent, CBS News, and Reuters
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are “unwarranted intervention” — Google was targeted by European Union watchdogs who unveiled a slate of proposals aimed at prising open its Android ecosystem to rivals' AI services.| Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits — Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits. — TL;DR: Today, we are announcing that all GitHub Copilot plans will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026.| The Economic Times: |
Amazon says it plans to expand its Amazon Now quick commerce service to 100 Indian cities; the service is currently live in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru — Amazon Now is rapidly expanding its quick commerce services to 100 Indian cities, boosting its micro-fulfillment centers to over 1,000.| Jim Hammerand / MassDevice: |
Paris-based SquareMind, whose Swan robot uses AI for full-body dermoscopic skin imaging, raised $18M, including a previously undisclosed pre-Series A — SquareMind has raised $18 million for its Swan robotic skin imaging platform, including an investment from Fred Moll's Sonder Capital.
More: The Robot Report and SquareMind
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-Google DeepMind Principal Scientist David Silver, raised a $1.1B seed at a $5.1B valuation to build AI “superlearners” — David Silver has a new billion-dollar company that aims to build AI “superlearners.” — David Silver gave the world its very first glimpse of superintelligence.
More: CNBC, TechCrunch, UK Sovereign AI Fund, Bloomberg, Telegraph, The Times, CNBC, The Next Web, Pathfounders, and Tech.eu
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