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.
Rachel Schmaier
2026
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.
@SemiEngineering, Liz Allan
2026
05 May 2026
There’s a big new AI startup in town. Meet Blitzy and its Boston investors.
Elliott was a former Army Ranger and startup veteran before entering HBS, where he became friends with Pardeshi, who had spent seven years at AI chip pioneer Nvidia helping invent new ways to use generative AI technology (he holds more than 25 patents).
Aaron Pressman
2026
05 May 2026
Naples author, others sue Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
A Naples best-selling author has joined five publishers in suing Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook. Scott Turow, author of thrillers like "Presumed Innocent," and others filed the class-action suit May 5 in New York federal court.
Dave Osborn, Naples Daily News
2026
02 May 2026
New Oscars rules: No AI actors, human-written scripts only
Actors created with artificial intelligence will not be eligible for an Oscar, said the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday introducing new rules for the awards. The governing body clarified that acting performances and screenplays must be created by humans, while allowing AI tools.
Shakeel Sobhan
2026
01 May 2026
Oscars to Screenwriters: You Gotta Be Human
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has addressed the way it evaluates the role of artificial intelligence in movies that could qualify for Oscars. Starting with the 2027 ceremony, Oscar’s 99th, the Academy is reserving the right to inquire about the extent to which AI was used in a movie, as well as how it was used.
Kory Grow
2026
30 Apr 2026
OpenAI sued by families of school shooting victims in Canada's Tumbler Ridge
By April 29, 2026, families of victims of a mass shooting in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company’s AI chatbot, ChatGPT, played a role in the February shooting by providing extensive conversations about scenarios involving gun violence. The lawsuits claim the shooter, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed five students and a teacher, as well as two family…
Lauren Fichten
2026
22 Apr 2026
10 leading enterprises show why agents mean business
Apr 22, 2026 How Capcom, Home Depot, Mars and more industry leaders are partnering with Google Cloud to scale agentic AI across their operations. Karthik...
Karthik Narain
2026
17 Apr 2026
The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
All empires eventually fall, and it seems the creative software industry has collectively decided that Adobe’s time has come. The Creative Cloud provider’s suite of design tools have been considered the industry standard for decades—despite unpopular decisions to fully embrace generative AI and abandon software licenses in favor of expensive, complicated subscriptions.
Jess Weatherbed
2026
