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Hear that noise? It was Sam Altman, breathing a huge sigh of relief. Loading audio narration… The OpenAI CEO won a huge victory on Monday morning, with a jury in Oakland, California, rejecting Elon Musk’s claims against the ChatGPT-maker after deliberating for less than two hours. A Musk victory could have shaken the industry and possibly ousted Altman. Instead, OpenAI has cleared a major hurdle in its lead-up to a gigantic initial public offering. Now, the race is on with rival Anthropic.Musk can still appeal. He’s argued that Altman, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and their company “stole” the original OpenAI…
Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely used by rival AI labs, including OpenAI and Google. Anthropic didn’t disclose terms of the deal. However, The Information reported last week that the company was in talks to acquire Stainless, which is backed by Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, for more than $300 million. The acquisition will take a key infrastructure supplier out of the hands of Anthropic’s competitors. The company told TechCrunch it will wind down all hosted Stainless products, including its SDK generator. An Anthropic spokesperson said…
Elon Musk’s claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors returned a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late. Musk accused Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI and Microsoft of “stealing a charity” by creating a for-profit affiliate of the frontier AI lab. Jurors, however, found that any harms that Musk may have suffered came before the deadline for filing his claims under the law. While the trial delved deeply into the melodramatic history of OpenAI and featured testimony from leading figures in Silicon Valley, it ultimately turned on fairly narrow questions…
Ahead of Nvidia earnings later this week, I suggest you check out an Amazon AI project. The codename is Titus and it reveals Nvidia’s true power. Loading audio narration… The cloud giant says it’s named after the Roman Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus, who completed the Colosseum, one of history’s earliest examples of gigantic modular architecture. The Colosseum’s repeating, self-supporting arches enabled rapid construction and scalable design, concepts Amazon wants to apply to next-generation AI data centers.That’s the official explanation. But the name carries deeper resonance. Like the Shakespearean general, Titus Andronicus, Amazon faces a dangerous balancing act between loyalty and…
A jury on Monday found Sam Altman and OpenAI not liable in a blockbuster lawsuit Elon Musk brought against them. Loading audio narration… The jurors in an Oakland, California, courtroom cleared the OpenAI CEO, its president, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI itself of Musk’s allegations that they scammed him of early charitable contributions by operating OpenAI as a for-profit venture.They ruled that the Tesla CEO knew about the details he described in his lawsuit as far back as 2021, but waited too long and missed the legal deadlines to bring his claims.The jurors also found Microsoft not liable for “aiding and…
Peter Steinberger is on a token spending spree. Loading audio narration… On Friday, the creator of OpenClaw posted a screenshot of his CodexBar, a tool that shows token spending on different AI coding tools. The image showed his token spending on OpenAI’s API at just under $20,000 for the day.In 30 days, Steinberger had spent $1.3 million worth of tokens on OpenAI’s API, according to the image.Steinberger notably doesn’t have to pay out of pocket for the tokens thanks to the fact that he now works at OpenAI. He wrote that the token funds were “perks of OpenAI supporting OpenClaw.”…
I started working at Google in 2021 as an associate product marketing manager in its London office. It was my dream role, and I landed it after interviewing 10 times. Loading audio narration… Three years later, I left to pursue an MBA in artificial intelligence from Wharton with the goal of creating a portfolio career. I had no idea what that would look like at the time: only that I wanted to create more career options going forward.The higher education space is changing with AI and the creator economy, so I understand why some people might feel it’s not as…
Amazon announced the latest update to Alexa+ on Monday: the ability to generate podcast episodes on demand. The new feature, called “Alexa Podcasts,” is rolling out to customers in the U.S. today. Amazon describes the capability as a way to “turn any topic you’re curious about into a podcast episode, ready in minutes.” To use the feature, all users have to do is ask Alexa+ to create a podcast about a topic they’re interested in. Users don’t need to upload documents, write scripts, or plan anything ahead of time. Instead, Alexa+ researches the request, gathers information, and generates a quick…
Political strategists Gabi Finlayson and Jackie Morgan were driving out of a canyon in Utah earlier this week when their phones regained service and started blowing up. Text after text came through from people checking in on them and encouraging them to hang in there. Loading audio narration… “We were like, ‘What is happening?'” Finlayson told Business Insider.The Elevate Strategies cofounders were mentioned in a Fox Business segment during which “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary said some critics of his new data center project in the state have ties to the Chinese Communist Party.”Who would want us to stop building…
Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn. No phone, no dashboard. Just your helmet, and a lens the size of a thumbnail. This is not a concept video. It’s heading to European roads as early as this year. And it’s one early glimpse of where smart glasses are heading. Over the past few years, Big Tech has been quietly (and not so quietly) placing its bets. Meta has been selling AI-enabled Ray-Ban glasses since 2023, Google is building Android XR, and Apple…