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OpenAI-backed 1X opens California factory targeting 10,000 home humanoid robots in year one

The Norway-founded company’s vertically integrated NEO factory in Hayward marks the first US-scale push to put a general-purpose humanoid robot into private homes, with shipments planned this year and a competitive field that is already crowded 1X Technologies has opened a 58,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Hayward, California, to produce its NEO humanoid robot at consumer […]This story continues at The Next Web

Meta cancelled the contract with the people who saw what its glasses see

In February 2026, workers at Sama, a Nairobi-based outsourcing company contracted by Meta, told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten that they had been reviewing footage captured by users of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses. The footage included people having sex, going to the toilet, undressing, and handling bank details. The workers’ job was to label […]This story continues at The Next Web

Twilio raises full-year revenue forecast as voice AI drives fastest growth in three years and shares jump 18%

Q1 revenue of $1.41 billion grew 20% year on year, the highest reported rate since 2022, as the cloud communications platform repositions itself as enterprise voice AI infrastructure. Twilio raised its full-year 2026 revenue growth forecast to 14-15%, up from 11.5-12.5%, after reporting first-quarter results that beat expectations across every major metric on Thursday. The […]This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic’s Mythos is moving between governments faster than regulators can agree on what to do with it

Anthropic’s most controversial product has spent its first three weeks moving between state actors who cannot agree on whether it is theirs to use, theirs to block, or someone else’s problem entirely. On Wednesday morning, an unnamed Trump administration official told the Wall Street Journal that the White House opposed Anthropic’s plan to expand access […]This story continues at The Next Web

Apple posted its best quarter ever by not building an AI model

Apple reported its best March quarter in history on Thursday, posting revenue of $111.2 billion, up 17 per cent year over year, with net profit of $29.6 billion. iPhone revenue reached a March quarter record of $58 billion, up 22 per cent, driven by what Tim Cook called “extraordinary” demand for the iPhone 17, which […]This story continues at The Next Web

The companies burning the most electricity are buying carbon credits from genetically engineered trees

Octopus Energy Generation has committed $500 million to Living Carbon, a San Francisco biotech company that plants trees on degraded land to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The deal, announced on 30 April, will fund reforestation projects across North America with the goal of removing up to 50 million tonnes of CO₂ over 40 […]This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI president says AI is now writing 80% of the company’s code

Greg Brockman’s comments at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2026 conference fit a pattern of AI lab leaders citing self-reinforcing productivity numbers, but the underlying evidence on AI coding productivity remains substantially more contested than the headline figure suggests. OpenAI president Greg Brockman said AI is now writing roughly 80% of the company’s code at Sequoia Capital’s […]This story continues at The Next Web

The man who built Internet Explorer wants to teach AI to think on 20 watts

Thomas Reardon has a pattern. In 1994, he created the project that became Internet Explorer, the browser that turned Microsoft from a software company into an internet company and triggered the most consequential antitrust case in technology history. In 2015, he co-founded CTRL-labs, a neural interface startup that built a wristband capable of translating electrical […]This story continues at The Next Web

News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to stop AI companies from using it

The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, and at least 241 other news organisations across nine countries have moved to restrict the Archive’s crawlers, a decision the Archive’s own director has called being ‘collateral damage’ in a war that is not really about them. The Internet Archive has preserved more than one trillion […]This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk says he was a 'fool' for funding OpenAI: report

Elon Musk said he felt like a "fool" for backing OpenAI, accusing Sam Altman of abandoning the nonprofit's original mission ...

Elon Musk spars with OpenAI attorney in trial over company’s evolution from a nonprofit

Elon Musk on Thursday sparred with an attorney for OpenAI during his third day of testimony in the contentious trial over the company’s pivot from nonprofit status to a for-profit venture valued at hundreds of billions of dollars.

Judge tells Elon Musk to cool it on the robot apocalypse talk

Elon Musk made repeated references to an AI "Terminator" scenario while testifying before a California federal jury about OpenAI's for-profit move.

The Real Stakes Behind Elon Musk’s Showdown with Sam Altman

In court, Elon Musk argues OpenAI betrayed its nonprofit mission, seeking damages, structural changes and clarity on AGI development.

Elon Musk’s courtroom showdown with Sam Altman started this week. The biggest takeaways so far

Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the stand, accusing OpenAI and its executives of deceiving him into donating money to help found what is now one of the world’s biggest AI companies.

Oakland judge shuts down Elon Musk's 'extinction' talk in OpenAI trial

Telsa CEO Elon Musk spent part of his final day testifying in an Oakland courtroom Thursday hearing a federal judge warn him ...

Elon Musk concludes testimony in OpenAI lawsuit

OpenAI President Greg Brockman and Musk’s fixer, Jared Birchall, are also expected to testify on Thursday.

Elon Musk Faces Contentious Questions at OpenAI Trial

On his third day of testimony, Elon Musk will be cross-examined by lawyers from OpenAI and Microsoft. His answers on the ...

Elon Musk blasts OpenAI 'bait-and-switch' during heated Day 2 testimony

Elon Musk testified that he texted Sam Altman, "what the hell is going on," after learning about Microsoft's $10 billion investment in OpenAI.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a hit in India, but not a big winner elsewhere, yet

Users in India are embracing ChatGPT Images 2.0 for creative, personal visuals — from avatars to cinematic portraits.

As Tim Cook steps down, Apple hit record sales — but a chip shortage looms

Cook warned that Apple is facing supply-chain headwinds from RAMageddon that could impact its business.