Musk’s case against OpenAI lands roughly in its first week
Three days of cross-examination in Oakland produced a $130bn lawsuit’s most awkward admissions, including that xAI trains on OpenAI’s models. The judge, not the jury
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Apple’s $599 Mac mini is gone. Blame the AI agents.
Apple has quietly raised the desktop’s starting price to $799 after demand from developers building local AI tools cleared its shelves. Tim Cook says it
Windows 11: A guide to the updates
A Windows launch isn’t the end a process — it’s really just the beginning. Microsoft continually works on improving Windows 11 by fixing bugs, releasing
Study: AI models that consider user’s feeling are more likely to make errors
In human-to-human communication, the desire to be empathetic or polite often conflicts with the need to be truthful—hence terms like “being brutally honest” for situations
The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS
Valve and its SteamOS operating system have already done what a bunch of companies (including Apple) have been trying to do for decades: make a
The venture fund that spent $4.6 billion in a year just raised $6 billion more
Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, closed a $6 billion growth fund on 1 May, its largest ever and its fourth
Australia’s $22 billion answer to the question the Hormuz crisis asked
When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on 27 March, following weeks of US and Israeli air strikes, Brent crude hit $126 a barrel and
AI agents can bypass guardrails and put credentials at risk, Okta study finds
An AI agent that revealed sensitive data without being asked. An agent that overruled its own guardrails. Another that sent credentials to an attacker via
Windows shell spoofing vulnerability puts sensitive data at risk
Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have sounded the alarm about a Windows shell spoofing vulnerability that is already being exploited
7 Features I Like in Ptyxis (The New Default Ubuntu Terminal)
Ptyxis is a modern terminal emulator built with GTK4 and libadwaita. It provides a cohesive look for the GNOME desktop, making it feel like a
Someone Turned a PS5 Into a Linux Gaming PC, and It Actually Works
Linux gaming has been on a great trajectory these past few years. Proton turned a massive chunk of the Steam library into playable Linux titles
Nebius paid $643 million for 20 people because inference is where the money is
Nebius Group, the Dutch cloud computing company that split from Russian internet provider Yandex in 2024, has agreed to acquire Eigen AI for approximately $643
Seven AI companies signed the Pentagon’s terms. The one that refused is worth $900 billion.
The Pentagon announced on 1 May that it has signed agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection AI for expanded use of advanced
Meta missed mobile. It is building the operating system for humanoids
Lerrel Pinto co-founded Fauna Robotics, a startup that built an approachable bipedal robot called Sprout. He left in 2025. Amazon acquired Fauna in March, along with