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Jury throws out Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI after less than two hours of deliberation — Unanimous vote that Musk filed the lawsuit too late All claims dismissed on statute of limitations grounds, clearing a major obstacle for OpenAI's planned IPO. A federal jury in Oakland

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 tha

The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-massive company OpenAI, shouldn’t direct the future of AI. Altman’s lawyers, in turn, poked at Musk’s own credibility. A jury came t

Artificial Intelligence Prompting Amazon Nova 2 for content moderation If you moderate user-generated content at scale, you need a system that catches policy violations accurately without over-flagging legitimate posts. A moderation system that misses harmful content puts you at

A thousand years ago, the ancestors of today’s Barkindji people carefully buried a dingo (or garli, in the Barkindji language) in a mound of shells. Archaeologists recently studied the burial in what’s now New South Wales, Australia. They found that the Barkindji ancestors had bu

Elon Musk took too long to file his lawsuit that accused OpenAI of stealing a charity, a nine-person jury unanimously decided Monday. Musk sued OpenAI in 2024 for making a “fool” out of him after Musk donated $38 million to kick-start OpenAI as a nonprofit, only to later be blind

Archaeologists used a combination of advanced CT scans and 3D digital reconstruction to identify one of the Pompeii victims who died in 79 CE during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius as most likely having been a Roman doctor, according to an announcement by the Pompeii Archaeologica

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After around two hours of deliberation, the jury has reached a unanimous verdict in Musk v. Altman, the tech trial of the year. The group found that two claims were barred by the statute of limitations, and a third failed thanks to the dismissal of one of these. Elon Musk loses h

Lanterns, the new DC Universe series coming to HBO Max, dropped a surprising teaser in March that swapped the usual superhero hijinks for gritty realism more in the vein of True Detectives and Slow Horses. Personally, I liked the change; it pushed a series that was barely on my r

Elon Musk’s claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI co-founders 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-p

Artificial Intelligence Aderant transforms cloud operations with Amazon Quick This guest post is co-written by Angela Mapes and Adam Walker of Aderant. Aderant, a leading global provider of comprehensive business management software for the legal industry, transformed how its 38-

Many gadgets marketed as being “smart” make me wonder if they would be better off dumb. Some examples are smart TVs that insist on sending your activities to businesses to track you, smart fridges that use the Internet to cycle through ads, smart gym equipment that won’t work off

Kicking off Dell Technologies World, Dell announced an expansion of the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. This broad update targets a familiar enterprise problem: moving AI projects from pilot to production. Across three related announcements, Dell is introducing new local agentic AI

At Dell Technologies World, Dell announced an expanded partnership with Samsung Electronics to support AI-driven semiconductor manufacturing, with Dell AI infrastructure deployed across Samsung’s research, chip design, and production-critical environments. The collaboration aims

NextEra-Dominion Merger: A $67B Bet on AI Power Demand A historic merger between NextEra and Dominion positions America’s largest regulated utility platform at the heart of the AI data center boom. NextEra Energy will acquire Dominion Energy in a $66.8 billion all-stock deal that

College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos — 'deal with it' one speaker fires back as students heckle positive pitches for AI's role Arizona students reject ex-Google exec's positive words on AI Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt received a cold reception

When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees about his plan in late 2022 to lay off 11,000 employees, in cuts that would later expand to 21,000, he was contrite in admitting that he overhired during the Covid pandemic. "I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that," Zucke

New York public health provider NYC Health + Hospitals says a months-long data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal data, medical records, and fingerprints scans affects at least 1.8 million people. NYCHHC is the largest public health system in the United States and prov

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Record-high pricing pushes SSD and memory makers to borrow $880 million just to afford buying chips — Adata, TeamGroup, and others take on substantial debt to survive shortages Revenue is at record highs, but even that isn't enough to fund the inventory these companies need. Seve

When Windows 11 launched in 2021, we mostly liked its refreshed look—the rounded corners and menus with just a hint of translucency were a nice change from the flat colors and hard corners of the Windows 8/10 era. But its reformulated taskbar and Start menu came with a number of

Dell's AI Factory getting supercharged storage Dell’s AI Factory product set was majorly updated today at Dell Technologies World and faster search, indexing and object storage played a foundational part in this. The company was early in to AI, making a substantial bet on it beco

What we announced in streaming AI at Next ‘26 Jagdeep Singh Director Product Management Prateek Duble Group Product Manager Every device, user, and microservice generates data. Ingesting this data, extracting meaning and insights, and driving business decisions in real time has t

How Google Does It: Fleet-wide, large-scale A/B experimentation Nilay Vaish Software Engineer Xiaoyu Chen Software Engineer When most people think of A/B experimentation, they think of button colors, landing page layouts, or checkout flows. At Google, many fundamental infrastruct

Beyond the Query: 5 Scenarios Laying the Foundation for the Agentic Era Marco Liotta Technical Account Manager, Google Cloud Lorenzo Caggioni Data & AI Architect, Google Cloud Accessing enterprise data is shifting from static reports to dynamic use by autonomous systems. To keep

Alexa Plus, Amazon’s upgraded AI assistant, can now generate podcasts on “virtually any topic,” according to an announcement on Monday. With the update, Amazon says you can give Alexa Plus a topic, and the AI assistant will offer an overview of what its AI hosts plan to talk abou

AWS Compute Blog Sharing Capacity Blocks for ML Across Your AWS Organization When your data science team reserves GPU instances for a two-week training job but completes it in four days, that capacity has the potential to sit unused while your computer vision team waits another w

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Artificial Intelligence Integrate Atlassian Confluence Cloud with Amazon Quick Teams can integrate Atlassian Confluence Cloud with Amazon Quick to search and manage documentation without switching between multiple systems. When documentation lives in Confluence, but related data

The market for AI notetaking devices has exploded in the U.S., with the category generating over $600 million in revenue last year, according to a Menlo Ventures report. And as startups like Heidi Health and Freed have shown, there’s decent demand for this tech in healthcare, whe

Why now is the best time to jump on the OLED monitor bandwagon — breaking down new-gen panel tech and our top burn-in prevention tips There’s never been a better time to hop on the OLED monitor bandwagon. Over the past few years, we’ve seen an absolute explosion of activity in th