May 12, 2026

Headlines

• № 01 · The New York Times

  Microsoft’s C.E.O. Intervened When OpenAI Fired Sam Altman, Musk’s Lawyer Claims

  Musk's lawyer claims Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella intervened to restore Sam Altman to his position at OpenAI after his brief 2023 dismissal.

• № 02 · The Verge

  Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure

  Microsoft executives feared OpenAI would defect to Amazon and disparage Azure, according to court documents from the Musk v. Altman trial.

• № 03 · Financial Times

  Nadella says the attempt to remove Altman from OpenAI was ‘amateur city’

  Microsoft chief Nadella testified that the 2023 attempt to remove Altman from OpenAI was poorly executed and called the effort amateurish.

• № 04 · The Verge

  Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI

  Musk and Altman face off in a high-stakes trial that could reshape OpenAI's future. Musk alleges the company abandoned its nonprofit mission for profit.

• № 05 · The Guardian

  Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance

  AI's greatest workplace threat is not mass joblessness but growing surveillance and control of workers through opaque algorithmic management systems.

• № 06 · MIT Tech Review

  Musk v. Altman week 2: OpenAI fires back, and Shivon Zilis reveals that Musk tried to poach Sam Altman

  In week two of the Musk v. OpenAI trial, testimony revealed Musk attempted to recruit Altman away from the company he co-founded.

• № 07 · The New York Times

  Inside the Elon Musk-OpenAI Trial Courtroom

  Tech billionaires with combined net worth exceeding $670 billion have brought props to court and exchanged icy stares in their legal dispute.

• № 08 · The Verge

  All the latest updates on AI data centers

  Massive AI data centers spark global conflicts over power grids, utility costs, environmental damage, and community impacts from energy consumption.

• № 09 · The New York Times

  Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable

  Meta is pushing its 78,000 employees to adopt AI tools while preparing layoffs as the company adapts to the artificial intelligence era.

• № 10 · VentureBeat

  Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI

  Salesforce launched a rebuilt Slackbot AI agent capable of searching data, drafting documents, and executing tasks on behalf of employees.

• № 11 · Financial Times

  Will AI turn us all into hipsters and artisans?

  Skepticism about automation replacing all human labor demand is well founded, according to economic analysis of technological displacement.

• № 12 · Financial Times

  Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores

  Amazon employees use the in-house MeshClaw AI tool to delegate unnecessary tasks and artificially inflate their usage scores on company leaderboards.

• № 13 · The Verge

  OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos

  OpenAI launched Daybreak, an AI security initiative that detects and patches code vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.

• № 14 · TechCrunch

  GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

  General Motors laid off hundreds of IT workers and hired replacements with stronger AI skills in roles like prompt engineering and model development.

• № 15 · The Verge

  Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to

  Thinking Machines, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is developing interaction models that process audio, video, and text simultaneously.

• № 16 · TechCrunch

  There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers, Cowboy Space raised $275M to build them

  Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build orbital data centers, addressing the shortage of rockets needed for space-based AI infrastructure.

• № 17 · The Guardian

  Palantir’s access to identifiable NHS England patient data is ‘dangerous’, MPs say

  UK MPs warned that NHS granting Palantir unlimited access to identifiable patient data for AI purposes is dangerous and threatens privacy.

• № 18 · TechCrunch

  We’re feeling cynical about xAI’s big deal with Anthropic

  xAI's deal with Anthropic raises questions about implications for parent company SpaceX and the competitive AI landscape.

• № 19 · VentureBeat

  Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

  Claude Code costs up to $200 monthly, sparking developer backlash as Goose offers equivalent AI coding capabilities entirely free.

• № 20 · Financial Times

  Chipmaker Cerebras joins OpenAI’s inner circle, for a price

  Chipmaker Cerebras joined OpenAI's inner circle, positioning itself to benefit financially from proximity to Sam Altman's expanding influence.

• № 21 · The New York Times

  Wrongful Death Lawsuits Against OpenAI Test a New Strategy

  Wrongful death lawsuits against OpenAI employ consumer product safety laws as a novel strategy to regulate chatbot companies.

• № 22 · The New York Times

  Instructure Strikes Deal for Hackers for Return of Canvas Data

  Instructure recovered stolen Canvas data from hackers but did not disclose what compensation it provided in exchange for the data's return.

• № 23 · The Guardian

  Datacentres should be forced to invest in wind and solar energy, all states agree, except Queensland

  Australian energy ministers agreed data centers should invest in renewable energy to offset consumption, except Queensland opposed the requirement.

• № 24 · Financial Times

  Why personalised pricing could be a good deal for shoppers

  Personalized pricing that charges different customers different amounts for identical goods need not harm consumers and may offer benefits.