07 May 2026
How China Is Winning the Global AI Race
Which artificial intelligence model is the most popular these days? Ask anyone in America or Europe, and you’ll probably hear about the respective merits of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, or Google’s Gemini. All wrong. Over the past two weeks, the most widely used AI in the world was one that few Westerners had ever heard of: Kimi K2.6, an open-source Chinese model that topped the…
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
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
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
06 May 2026
A Proposed Billionaire Tax Exposes The Dual-Share Racket: Justin Fox
An underappreciated aspect of the one-time 5% billionaire wealth tax likely to go before California voters in November is that for several of the state’s most prominent billionaires, the rate might be far higher than 5%.
06 May 2026
Nvidia, Corning partner on massive optical fiber deal that may be a game changer for AI
Nvidia, the chipmaker at the center of the artificial intelligence boom, is partnering with glassmaker Corning for three new advanced manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Texas dedicated entirely to optical technologies for the world's most valuable semiconductor company.
06 May 2026
OpenAI's AI phone just jumped the line
Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Amid intensifying competition with Anthropic, improved models, and efforts to kill “side hustles,” OpenAI is apparently looking at something closer to home — an AI agent phone. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the company is fast-tracking this device for 2027, with some notable
