07 May 2026
Humanoid Touch And Voice Are Improving Rapidly
Humanoid robots are rapidly expanding beyond factories and logistics toward broader, general-purpose roles (including in-home assistance), driven by advances in AI and sensing. Compared with vision and language, touch (haptics) and hearing/voice in real environments remain the hardest — and most commercially important — sensing challenges, requiring fast sensor fusion and edge processing.
07 May 2026
Oakland: Jury Hears Testimony From Musk Advisor & Mother Of His Children In Openai Case
At the federal courthouse in Oakland Wednesday -- the seventh day in the trial of Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI -- the jury heard the testimony of Shivon Zilis, a former OpenAI board member with a close and complicated relationship with Musk.
06 May 2026
Corgi raises $160M at $1.3B valuation to expand AI-native insurance platform
Corgi Insurance Inc., an artificial intelligence-native insurance carrier built for startups, revealed today that it has raised $160 million in new funding at a $1.3 billion valuation to expand its startup insurance products, develop its technology further and move into new verticals.
06 May 2026
Is xAI a neocloud now?
On Wednesday, xAI and Anthropic announced a surprise partnership that has the Claude-maker buying out “all of the compute capacity at [xAI’s] Colossus 1 data center,” roughly 300MW that allowed Anthropic to immediately raise its usage limits.
06 May 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was dishonest, caused 'chaos,' ex-exec Mira Murati says in bombshell testimony
OpenAI’s former head of technology Mira Murati slammed CEO Sam Altman as an untrustworthy leader who fomented strife among the company’s top ranks — stunning testimony that was shared Wednesday in Elon Musk’s bombshell lawsuit against the artificial intelligence giant.
06 May 2026
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
Meta is beefing up its age-verification mechanisms with an AI system that analyzes images and videos on Instagram and Facebook for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure, to identify and delete accounts of users under the age of 13.
06 May 2026
Oil prices sink and stocks leap worldwide on hopes for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz
Oil prices sank Wednesday, and stock markets rallied worldwide with hopes that the United States and Iran are nearing a deal to allow ships to deliver crude from the Persian Gulf once again to their customers.
06 May 2026
Advanced AI holds promise for high-stakes healthcare, studies show
A pair of recent studies shows big potential for artificial intelligence to detect and diagnose some particularly challenging healthcare conditions.
06 May 2026
Stock Market Today (LIVE): Visa Bets Big on Agentic Commerce; Nvidia Invests $2.7 Billion in Corning
📌 Top story -- scroll down for more updates Upstart Grows Fast, Spends Faster, and Margins Take a Hit 2:48 pm — UPST -8.50% Upstart ( UPST 8.44% ) delivered a blowout top line — $308.2 million in Q1 revenue, up 44%, crushing estimates. Loan originations surged 61% to $3.4 billion. The catch? Sales and marketing costs
