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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did 'huge damage' to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman said Musk required OpenAI president Greg Broc

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has begun his testimony against Elon Musk in a high-profile jury trial in a California federal courtroom. Altman, alongside OpenAI president Greg Brockman, is a primary defendant

After two weeks of hearing from assorted witnesses that he was a lying snake, the jury finally heard from the lying snake himself: Sam Altman. At the end of the testimony, his lawyer William Savitt as

Reuters: Samsung and its South Korean labor union fail to reach a pay deal; the union has said workers will strike for 18 days from May 21 if its demands are not met — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS)

The Information: Source: Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire New York-based Stainless, which helps developers generate SDKs from APIs, for at least 300M — Anthropic is in advanced talks to acqui

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to make the Camera app fully customizable in iOS 27, along with noticeable design changes across Siri, Safari, Weather, and more — Apple Inc. is planning

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Google is in talks with SpaceX and other companies for a rocket launch deal, as Google expands its own efforts to put orbital data centers in space — A deal between the t

Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: Sam Altman recently discussed launching an AI compute company that is majority-owned by OpenAI, similar to Stargate's original data center initiative — Sources say Sam A

Financial Times: Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets — In-house MeshClaw tool

Bloomberg: Sources: Wispr Flow developer Wispr AI is in talks to raise a round that could more than double its valuation to 2B; source: the round is set to total ~260M — Wispr AI Inc., the developer b

Would it shock you to hear that Android 17 is filled with new AI-enabled features, like improved dictation and vibe-coded widgets? Fortunately, that's not all. The platform is getting non-AI updates t

Databricks announced the general availability of Catalog Commits, a feature that integrates open table formats with open catalog systems to enable versioning and tracking of catalog-level changes. Thi

Span, Nvidia, and PulteGroup are testing home-based data center nodes that use unused grid capacity to cut costs, ease community pushback, and support growing AI demand. The Span installation bundles

Databricks explores how lakehouse architecture enables sports organizations to process and analyze player tracking data at scale, converting raw motion capture and sensor information into actionable c

Reuters: The US DOD says it is deploying Mythos to find and patch software vulnerabilities across the US government, even as it works on a transition away from Anthropic — WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters)

Christian Martinez / Reuters: The US FCC approves EchoStar's sale of approximately 65MHz of spectrum to SpaceX and 50MHz to AT&T — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunicati

Thinking Machines Lab Inc., the artificial intelligence research startup founded by former OpenAI Group PBC Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, wants to move beyond the era of “turn-based” AI intera

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Threads is testing a Meta AI integration similar to X's Grok, letting users mention Meta AI in a post or a reply to get more context, in five countries — Threads is testing a

Josh Scott / BetaKit: Vancouver-based quantum computing startup Photonic raised an additional 70M after a 130M raise announced in January, giving it a 2B post-money valuation — Vancouver-based Photoni

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Waymo recalls ~3,800 robotaxis in the US to fix software issues that may cause them to drive onto flooded roads, after some were seen stalled on flooded streets — Waymo is recalli

Data resilience is quickly becoming the line between systems that recover and businesses that stall as artificial intelligence reshapes how data is created, moved and exposed. What’s changing isn’t ju

A California couple is suing OpenAI after their 19-year-old son, Sam Nelson, died from a drug overdose following advice from ChatGPT about combining kratom and Xanax . The lawsuit alleges OpenAI desig

Skyroot Aerospace, founded by former ISRO engineers, is preparing for India's first orbital launch attempt by a private company with its Vikram-1 rocket, designed to carry up to 350 kilograms into low

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default — iOS 26.5 is now available to

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics says Grok paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 —

Audi's new Q9 flagship features a spacious, exclusive interior conceived as a sanctuary, offering up to seven seats with electrically powered doors and a large panoramic sunroof with switchable transp

Luke James / Tom's Hardware: Chinese state media: CAS Cold Atom Technology has built the 200-qubit Hanyuan-2, the world's first dual-core quantum computer, with a core for error correction — Metrics a

Shares of Circle Internet Group Inc. closed 15.9% higher today after it reported earnings, announced a token sale and debuted a new set of developer tools. NYSE-listed Circle issues the popular USDC s

Bruce Einhorn / Bloomberg: Cowboy Space, led by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt to build data centers in orbit, raised a 275M Series B led by Index Ventures at a 2B valuation — A space unicorn starte

Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se: curl founder Daniel Stenberg says Mythos identified five vulnerabilities in curl, but a manual review found three were false positives and one was “just a bug” — yes,

A data center campus in north-central Georgia consumed more than 29 million gallons of water without the local utility company initially realizing it, triggering low-pressure water flow to the host co

Formula 1 leaders agreed to change engine regulations for 2027 by adjusting the 50-50 power split to increase internal combustion output. The changes aim to address driver concerns about excessive lif

David Welch / Bloomberg: GM plans to lay off IT workers in an effort to trim costs and bring in staff with skills in other tech areas; sources: the cuts will affect 500 to 600 employees — General Moto

For the first time, Google says it has spotted and stopped a zero-day exploit developed with AI. According to a report from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), 'prominent cyber crime threat actor

Dustin Volz / New York Times: Google's TIG reports the first known example of hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day; TIG's chief analyst says “this is the tip of the iceberg” — The com

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Google's TIG says it likely thwarted the use of an AI-generated zero-day in a “mass exploitation event” and tools like OpenClaw are being used to find exploits — Google's Threat

Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called 'interaction models.' The idea behind interaction models, according t

In this post, we dive deep into the architecture and techniques we used to improve Miro’s bug routing, achieving six times fewer team reassignments and five times shorter time-to-resolution powered by

iOS 26.5 introduces end-to-end encryption for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users, with encryption requiring both participants to have a carrier that supports the feature. The upda

CTech: Israeli startup Frame Security, which protects organizations from AI-powered social engineering attacks, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index and others — The Israeli firm aims to modern

My guest today is longtime friend of the show Joanna Stern. You all know Joanna: she is the former senior personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, a former Decoder guest host, one of

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Ilya Sutskever testifies that his OpenAI stake is worth ~7B and he had concerns about Altman for a year before Altman's brief ouster as CEO — OpenAI co-founder

CNBC: Musk v. Altman: Satya Nadella says Elon Musk never contacted him with concerns that Microsoft's investments in OpenAI violated any special terms or commitments — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took

IBM Think saw Big Blue grab its place in the artificial intelligence spotlight. In a week full of notable, and surprising, AI news, IBM Think saw CEO Arvind Krishna emphasize AI as the operating model

Eighteen U.S. cruise passengers from the MV Hondius returned to the U.S. on May 11, 2026, after weeks aboard the ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak. One passenger tested 'mildly' posit

Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. is expected to increase the size and price of its initial public offering later today as investor demand for access to its shares continues to r