11 May 2026
A third billionaire testifies in OpenAI trial: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the witness stand Monday in a trial about control of the artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, making him the third tech billionaire to testify in the closely watched lawsuit in as many weeks.
David Ingram, NBCNews
2026
11 May 2026
Former Tesla CFO Deepak Ahuja joins EV battery recycler Redwood Materials
Deepak Ahuja, Source: Verily Redwood Materials, the electric vehicle battery recycling business started by Tesla board member and former CTO JB Straubel, is bringing on another former Tesla executive, Deepak Ahuja, as CFO, the company announced Monday.
Lora Kolodny
2026
11 May 2026
Cowboy raises $275 million to build rockets with orbital data center upper stages
TAMPA, Fla. — Cowboy Space, which emerged from stealth less than two years ago as Aetherflux to develop space-based solar power, has raised $275 million at a $2 billion valuation to build rockets with upper stages that would serve as data centers once in low Earth orbit (LEO).
@JasonRainbow, Jason Rainbow
2026
11 May 2026
In the humanoid robot industry, joint unions between robot hardware companies and artificial intelli..
In the humanoid robot industry, joint unions between robot hardware companies and artificial intelligence (AI) companies are increasing. If the Generative AI industry is a software war centered on large-scale language models (LLM), the humanoid industry is important for both AI, the brain of robots, and machines, which are the body, and the combination of the two will eventually determine the…
News Desk
2026
11 May 2026
Tehran
1 Apple pulled off a masterstroke, but it’s not the fruit company news everybody is talking about. Yes, Apple gained the rights for Formula 1, which used to be free on ESPN and... Free TV is going the way of the dodo. There’s just too much money in desirable product for streamers not to lay their money down. But there’s only so much desirable product out there, and the most desirable is sports.…
News Desk
2026
10 May 2026
Anthropic puts the “myth” in Mythos with its HackerOne bug bounty program
Bug bounty programs have been a cornerstone of cybersecurity for years, serving as conduits for hackers and security researchers to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit...
@psawers, Paul Sawers
2026
10 May 2026
IIT Mumbai Alumnus gave up an $8,000 US internship to build startups in India
In a post on X, Aman Goel recalled how a Rubrik internship in Silicon Valley shaped his early ambitions. He said the experience ultimately pushed him to return to India and build his own ventures.
India Today Education Desk
2026
09 May 2026
‘A really surreal moment’: Rigby teen among only 4 Idahoans accepted to MIT
Addie Anderson, a 17-year-old from Rigby, Idaho, received an acceptance letter from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world’s premier STEM institutions, on Pi Day this year. "I feel like it was a really surreal moment," she said.
@eastidnews, Cody Roberts
2026
09 May 2026
What I saw at the Musk-OpenAI trial: petty billionaires, protests and a stern judge
For the past couple of weeks, on the fourth floor of a courthouse on a quiet street in downtown Oakland, the world’s richest man and one of the world’s most valuable startups have been at war over the future of artificial intelligence.
Dara Kerr
2026
