Elon Musk Demands $150 Billion From OpenAI in Bombshell Testimony
The man building an AI company to compete with OpenAI just spent three hours on a witness stand explaining why he's entitled to $150 billion from OpenAI.
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White House Blocks Anthropic's Bid to Expand AI Access
The company that built its brand on AI safety just got told "no" by the government when it tried to open the gates wider. The White House is blocking Anthropic's plan to expand access to Mythos, an AI model the company itself describes as powerful enough to enable dangerous cyberattacks.
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Elon Musk Tweet Costs One Trader $150,000 in Minutes
Someone just paid $150,000 to learn that meme coins don't care about your court calendar. A Solana wallet lost $150,000 on a Sam Altman-themed meme coin that crashed 95% during day one of the Musk-OpenAI trial
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Musk Wanted to Name OpenAI "Freemind" to Mock Google
The AI kingmaker who wanted to call his project "Freemind" as a dig at Google looked less like a visionary and more like a man settling scores on day one.
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OpenAI Faces First Mass Shooting Lawsuit for Failing to Alert Authorities
The agent doesn't pull the trigger, but it might have seen the shooter coming.
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OpenAI Warns AI Attackers Will Outpace Human Defenders Without Intervention
OpenAI just published a cybersecurity playbook that reads like an admission: AI will break things faster than humans can fix them, so we'd better give everyone AI defenders before the attackers get too far ahead.
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AI Startup Ditches ChatGPT for Claude After Months of Side-by-Side Testing
When an AI-native startup ditches the market leader, that's not a preference — it's a productivity spreadsheet talking. Sidhant Bendre, cofounder of AI startup Oleve, canceled his company's ChatGPT subscription and switched entirely to Claude after Anthropic released Claude 4.5 in fall 2025
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Goldman Sachs Just Banned Claude AI in Hong Kong
The first domino in the great AI decoupling just fell inside a bank. Goldman Sachs cut off Hong Kong staff from Anthropic's Claude, an AI coding assistant the firm uses globally
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OpenAI Copies the Rival It Called Too Slow
The company that made ChatGPT a verb is now taking design cues from the rival it once dismissed as too cautious. OpenAI is restructuring to adopt product development practices pioneered by Anthropic, the AI safety-focused competitor it previously positioned itself against
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Pentagon Gets Unrestricted Access to Google's AI Under Classified Deal
The Pentagon just bought Google's moral compromise at bulk rates. Google signed a classified deal giving the Department of Defense access to its AI models for "any lawful government purpose", joining OpenAI and xAI in military AI contracts
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AI Chatbots Are Now Secretly Placing Ads in Your Therapy Sessions
The companies training AI to be your therapist are now training it to sell you stuff mid-conversation. Research from computer scientists shows AI chatbots successfully embed personalized product ads in conversational responses, and most users don't realize they're being manipulated
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Google's AI Engineers Revolt Against Pentagon Weapons Deal
The people building the most powerful AI tools in the world are publicly asking their boss not to sell them to the people with the most powerful weapons in the world.
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Anthropic Pays $400K for Someone to Throw Parties While Building AI to Replace Jobs
The company building AI to replace knowledge work just posted a job that's pure analog: schmoozing humans in conference rooms for $400K. Anthropic is hiring an Events Lead at $320K-$400K to run in-person brand events, from intimate gatherings to large conferences
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OpenAI's 2028 Phone Could Kill the App Store
If OpenAI ships a phone in 2028, the app store dies with it. OpenAI is reportedly planning a smartphone with AI agents replacing traditional apps, with mass production potentially starting in 2028 according to analyst reports
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Elon Musk's Betrayal Case Against OpenAI Starts Monday With Altman on the Stand
The man who warned AI could destroy humanity is now fighting in court to decide who gets to build it. Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman goes to trial Monday, alleging they betrayed OpenAI's nonprofit mission after he invested $38 million from 2015-2017.
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China Just Showed Silicon Valley Who Really Controls AI's Future
The deal that wasn't tells you more about the future of AI than most deals that close. China blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI startup, citing concerns about technology transfer to the US
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Tech Worker Quits Before Getting Fired By Manager Who Believes AI Hype
The first wave of AI displacement isn't coming from agents that work better than humans — it's coming from managers who believe they will.
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OpenAI's $100B Betrayal Goes to Trial as Musk Exposes the Receipts
Two billionaires arguing over who broke the handshake deal isn't news — but when that handshake was supposed to keep AI nonprofit and the trial might expose exactly how OpenAI became a $100B for-profit, the discovery docs are the real story.
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Cohere Buys Germany's Aleph Alpha as Grocery Billionaire Bets on AI Sovereignty
The AI sovereignty race just got its first transatlantic alliance, and it's being funded by a grocery empire. Cohere is acquiring Germany's Aleph Alpha, backed by the Schwarz Group (owner of Lidl), with explicit government support from both Canada and Germany
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Tokyo Is Building What Silicon Valley Can't: Infrastructure for AI Agents
While Silicon Valley debates which LLM will rule them all, Tokyo is building the physical infrastructure for agents to actually do things in the world.
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