07 May 2026
OpenAI trial: Mother of Musk's children says he offered Altman a Tesla board seat
Shivon Zilis, former board member of OpenAI Inc., arrives at the federal court in Oakland, California, US, on Wednesday, May 6, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The high-stakes trial in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will conclude its second week of proceedings on Thursday.
07 May 2026
Japan Airlines Will Test Robot Ground Crew At Tokyo Haneda Airport
Japan Airlines is preparing to test humanoid robots in airport ground operations as the carrier explores new ways to support workers at busy Japanese airports.
07 May 2026
Milken crowd warns of populism’s poison
Good Thursday morning. In today’s Daily Kickoff, we cover the White House’s new counterterrorism strategy targeting the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran and Islamic State elements in Africa, and report on Rep. Nancy...
07 May 2026
AI is Already on Broadway — Just Not Where You're Looking
For an industry often described as slow to change, Broadway may be further along in its relationship with artificial intelligence than many people realize. Not on stage, and not in the rehearsal room, but behind the scenes in marketing strategy, forecasting, ticketing recommendations, and how audiences discover shows.
07 May 2026
Robots That Learn Through Interaction and Understand Objects Intuitively
The robots I grew up with on the silver screen were big clunky affairs like Robby the Robot, who first appeared in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet. Similarly, on the small screen, we had hulking contraptions like the B-9, Class YM-3 Environmental Control Robot, simply known as Robot, on Lost in Space. Later, I was...
07 May 2026
Elizabeth Warren seeks information on Meta’s latest stablecoin plans in letter to Mark Zuckerberg
Meta rolled out a stablecoin pilot on Facebook last week following years of false starts, and it didn’t take long before a familiar antagonist took notice. On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) delivered a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calling its “lack of transparency” surrounding its stablecoin plans “troubling” and seeking answers to a range of questions surrounding Meta’s…
07 May 2026
Roadmap for a space-to-space economy
Launch is the foundation of the space industry, to the point that many conflate it with the space industry in entirety because it is literally the loudest, most spectacular element we see. But the quietly orbiting satellites overhead are what really drive the space economy.
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
How Quantum Computing Can Solve Energy And Climate Challenges
An illustration of quantum entanglement between two particles. The quantum realm holds significant promise for solving energy challenges, from materials science to advanced simulations. getty Quantum computing could transform how we solve complex energy and climate problems.
