14 May 2026
What the jury will actually decide in the case of Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman
Nine California jurors are now deliberating over the future of OpenAI, the world-leading artificial intelligence lab.
Tim Fernholz
2026
14 May 2026
OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone
Codex is going mobile. The coding tool — which OpenAI launched approximately a year ago — has now been integrated into the ChatGPT app, allowing users to monitor and manage their development workflows remotely.
Lucas Ropek
2026
14 May 2026
Cerebras IPO makes billions for Benchmark but VC Eric Vishria almost didn't take the meeting
The Cerebras Systems IPO was a smash hit on Thursday, generating billions for itself, its founders, and its major investors. Among the big winners is major shareholder Benchmark, which owns 9.5% of the company. One of the firm’s general partners, Eric Vishria, has been a Cerebras board member since 2016, the year the AI chip maker was founded, having co-led its $25 million Series A round.
Julie Bort
2026
07 May 2026
Elon Musk’s lawsuit is putting OpenAI’s safety record under the microscope
Elon Musk’s legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab’s founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence.
Tim Fernholz
2026
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.
Russell Brandom
2026
06 May 2026
Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A
Business insurance startup Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion, the startup’s co-founder Nico Laqua said on LinkedIn.
Dominic-Madori Davis
2026
06 May 2026
Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows
Genesis AI, a Khosla-backed robotics startup, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, featuring advanced robotic hands designed in-house. The company, which raised a $105 million seed round, has shifted to a full-stack approach to improve model intelligence and real-world applicability.
Anna Heim
2026
30 Apr 2026
Amazon’s cloud business is surging — and so is its capital spending
Amazon’s cloud business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), saw its net sales increase 28% year-over-year, reaching $37.6 billion, marking the fastest growth rate in 15 quarters. AWS’ success is attributed to its pivotal role in fueling the AI boom, providing compute resources to the industry. Andy Jassy, Amazon’s CEO, highlighted this growth as unprecedented, comparing it to the early days of AWS, which…
Lucas Ropek
2026
