OSHA probing worker death at SpaceX’s Starbase site
The death is the latest worker safety issue at the Starbase facility, which has a higher injury rate than all other SpaceX sites.
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SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required
Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that the bigger obstacle is access, and that Claude solves it.
Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.
OpenClaw creator’s $1.3 million monthly OpenAI bill reveals the real cost of autonomous AI coding at scale
Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw and an engineer at OpenAI, racked up $1.3 million in API costs in a single month by running approximately 100 Codex instances simultaneously on his open-source project. The bill, which covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests over 30 days, is the most visible demonstration yet of what […]This story continues at The Next Web
SpaceX raises Starlink prices across every consumer plan and doubles the cost of Standby Mode
SpaceX has raised the price of every consumer Starlink plan in the United States, adding $5 to $10 per month across its residential and mobile tiers while doubling the cost of its budget Standby Mode from $5 to $10. The increases, which took effect immediately for new subscribers and will apply to existing customers from […]This story continues at The Next Web
Meta begins cutting 8,000 jobs this week as record profits fund a $145 billion AI infrastructure bet
Meta will begin cutting approximately 8,000 jobs on 20 May, the largest single round of layoffs the company has undertaken since its 2023 restructuring, in a move that lays bare the scale of Mark Zuckerberg’s bet that artificial intelligence infrastructure is worth more than the people it replaces. The company is also cancelling 6,000 open […]This story continues at The Next Web
Amazon’s new Alexa feature generates entire podcast episodes using AI and licensed journalism from 200+ newsrooms
Amazon has launched a feature that uses artificial intelligence to generate entire podcast episodes on demand. Called Alexa Podcasts, the tool allows users to ask Alexa+ to create a podcast on any topic, and the system will research the subject, produce a structured overview, and deliver it as an audio episode narrated by two […]This story continues at The Next Web
Hackers stole fingerprints and medical data from 1.8 million people in NYC’s largest public hospital breach
New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States, has disclosed that hackers stole personal data, medical records, and biometric information, including fingerprints, in a breach affecting at least 1.8 million people. The organisation reported the figure to the US Department of Health and Human Services, making the […]This story continues at The Next Web
Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit as jury unanimously rules his claims were filed too late
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. A nine-person jury in Oakland returned a unanimous verdict on Sunday finding that Musk’s claims had been filed too late under the statute of limitations, ending the most consequential corporate governance trial in the history of artificial intelligence without reaching the […]This story continues at The Next Web
HistoSonics gets Taiwan approval for its tumour-destroying ultrasound system as it pushes into Asia
HistoSonics has received regulatory approval from Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration for its Edison Histotripsy System, a non-invasive cancer treatment device that uses focused ultrasound to destroy tumours without cutting, radiation, or thermal damage. The TFDA authorisation, announced on 18 May, marks a significant step in the company’s expansion into Asia and adds Taiwan to […]This story continues at The Next Web
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI co-founders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late.
Sigma Computing doubles valuation to $3 billion in Series E as agentic analytics race heats up
Sigma Computing has raised $80 million in Series E funding at a $3 billion valuation, doubling its worth in a year and positioning the San Francisco-based company as one of the most aggressively valued players in the business intelligence market. The round was led by Princeville Capital, with new strategic investors Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow […]This story continues at The Next Web
Four AI supply-chain attacks in 50 days exposed the release pipeline red teams aren't covering
Four supply-chain incidents hit OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in 50 days: three adversary-driven attacks and one self-inflicted packaging failure. None targeted the model, and all four exposed the same gap: release pipelines, dependency hooks, CI runners, and packaging gates that no system card, AISI evaluation, or Gray Swan red-team exercise has ever scoped.On May 11, 2026, a self-propagating worm called Mini Shai-Hulud published 84 malicious package versions across 42 @tanstack/* npm packages in
Alec Baldwin hits back at Elon Musk for criticizing Lupita Nyong’o’s looks amid ‘The Odyssey’ casting
The billionaire businessman criticized director Christopher Nolan for casting the "Black Panther" actress in "The Odyssey." ...
Elon Musk compares his company’s work to that of Jesus
In an interview on Monday, the billionaire said his Neuralink brain-implant company is progressing in its development of ...
Elon Musk reportedly owes quite a few of his employees $420
Elon Musk owes a bunch of xAI employees $420, according to a report by Bloomberg. The CEO reportedly promised employees ...
Elon Musk Hailed For Saying What ‘Majority Of People Think’ After Ripping Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Casting
Elon Musk has the crowd on his side this time as he tears Christopher Nolan a new one. The tech The Elon Musk Hailed For ...
Elon Musk vs. OpenAI: Jury deliberations to begin in blockbuster trial
Deliberations begin Monday in the trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, whom Musk accuses of ...
Elon Musk Blames ‘Woke Mind Virus’ for ‘Killing’ His Son
Speaking about his trans daughter’s transition, Elon Musk said that the “woke mind virus” was responsible for what he ...
Elon Musk Says Trump Account Contributions Are 'Nice Gesture' But Unnecessary — 'There Will Be No Poverty In The Future And So No Need To Save Money'
For most people, a conversation about children's savings accounts usually ends somewhere around compound interest and responsible adulthood. Then Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed up and turned it into a discussion about whether artificial intelligence could eventually wipe...