Elon Musk Testifies of AI Risk at Trial, Says OpenAI Tried to ‘Steal’ a Charity
Opening statements in Musk’s lawsuit offered differing views of his early financial support of OpenAI and its conversion to a ...
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Elon Musk Makes Bold Statement After WHCD Shooting Incident
Shortly after shots were fired at the recent White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Elon Musk made a comment on X (formerly ...
Elon Musk and Sam Altman Head to Court
Jury selection began yesterday for Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman, in a trial that marks the culmination of a bitter, ...
Elon Musk testifies in a case that could change the path of AI
Elon Musk on Tuesday testified that his lawsuit against OpenAI and its leaders goes well beyond one company and into the ...
Elon Musk trial against Sam Altman to reveal OpenAI power struggle, jury is seated
By Deepa Seetharaman and Jonathan Stempel April 27 (Reuters) - The bitter legal fight between Elon Musk and the leading ...
It’s not OK to ‘loot a charity’: Elon Musk testifies at OpenAI trial
Elon Musk testifies in the high-stakes OpenAI trial, framing his lawsuit as a defence of charitable giving and AI ethics.
As trial against OpenAI begins, Elon Musk seeks Sam Altman's ouster
Musk's lawyers say OpenAI leaders "stole a charity" and Musk warns about the potential dangers of AI: "We don't want to have a Terminator outcome."
Elon Musk, Testifying at OpenAI Trial, Accuses Executives of Stealing a ‘Charity’
Elon Musk, who split from OpenAI years after cofounding it as a nonprofit in 2015, said it was putting commercial interests ...
Elon Musk takes stand in trial vs. Sam Altman that could reshape AI's future
Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO, world's richest man and OpenAI cofounder, took the stand Tuesday in a high-stakes trial revolving around a bitter feud with his former friend Sam Altman that could reshape the future development of artificial intelligence. Musk filed the lawsuit against Altman and his top lieutenant, Greg Brockman, along with Microsoft over its investments in OpenAI, in 2024. “Fundamentally, I think they’re going to try to make this lawsuit ... very complicated, but it’s actually very simple,” Musk said.
The Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman trial didn't even make it past jury selection before Musk started getting clowned on
Opening arguments began on Tuesday in the case of Musk v. Altman, the Tesla CEO's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI for, ...
Elon Musk expected to testify in OpenAI trial
Elon Musk is set to testify in court as soon as Tuesday in his legal showdown against OpenAI's Sam Altman.
How one venture firm is investing in an increasingly fragmented world
Geopolitical turmoil has made venture investing challenging, leading Kompas VC to carve out a niche in startups focused on the physical world.
At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship
It's a story Musk has told before -- in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk -- but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath.
How to build custom reasoning agents with a fraction of the compute
Training AI reasoning models demands resources that most enterprise teams do not have. Engineering teams are often forced to choose between distilling knowledge from large, expensive models or relying on reinforcement learning techniques that provide sparse feedback.Researchers at JD.com and several academic institutions recently introduced a new training paradigm that sidesteps this dilemma. The technique, called Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards with Self-Distillation (RLSD), comb
American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding
The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model for general users (Claude Opus 4.7), then, a week or so later, its rival OpenAI volleys back with one of its own (GPT-5.5). And all the while, Chinese companies like DeepSeek and even Xiaomi are seeking to appeal to users by playing a different game: nearing the frontier, but with open licensing and far lower costs. So it's a big surprise when a new, affordable
South Africa used AI to write its AI policy. The citations were fake.
South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies spent months drafting a national artificial intelligence policy. It proposed a National AI Commission, an AI Ethics Board, an AI Regulatory Authority, an AI Ombudsperson, a National AI Safety Institute, and an AI Insurance Superfund. It outlined five pillars of AI governance: skills capacity, responsible governance, ethical […]This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.
OpenAI called the report “prime clickbait.” It said its business is “firing on all cylinders.” It issued a joint statement from CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar declaring they are “totally aligned.” None of it worked. On Tuesday, after the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had missed internal revenue and user growth targets, […]This story continues at The Next Web
The founder of Scholly sold his scholarship app to Sallie Mae. He says they fired him for asking why they were selling students’ data.
Christopher Gray built Scholly to help students like himself find scholarships. He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, became the first in his family to attend college after winning $1.3 million in scholarships to Drexel University, and turned that experience into a mobile app that matched students with financial aid based on their profiles. The app […]This story continues at The Next Web
Musk told the jury the OpenAI case is simple. The consequences of his testimony are anything but.
Elon Musk told a federal jury on Tuesday that his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders is not about him. “It is not okay to steal a charity, that’s my view,” Musk said from the witness stand in Oakland, California, in his first testimony under oath in the case he filed in 2024. “If we […]This story continues at The Next Web
Google signed the Pentagon’s classified AI deal and walked away from its drone swarm contest on the same day.
Google has signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use its Gemini AI models for classified military work under terms that permit “any lawful government purpose,” the company confirmed on Tuesday, one day after more than 580 Google employees signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse exactly this kind of arrangement. The agreement provides the […]This story continues at The Next Web