May 14, 2026

Headlines

• № 01 · The Verge

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

  Musk sued OpenAI in 2024, claiming it abandoned its nonprofit mission to benefit humanity and instead prioritized profits. The high-stakes trial could reshape the future of the AI company and its ChatGPT product.

• № 02 · The New York Times

  Ishmael Reed Is Writing a Play About Elon Musk

  Playwright and provocateur Ishmael Reed is writing a theatrical work about Elon Musk, offering his perspective on Silicon Valley's billionaire class.

• № 03 · The New York Times

  Silicon Valley’s A.I. Lobbying Blitz Reaches a Fever Pitch

  OpenAI and Anthropic are opening Washington offices, hiring lobbyists, and spending record amounts to influence federal lawmakers on AI regulation.

• № 04 · The Verge

  Mark Zuckerberg announces ‘completely private’ encrypted Meta AI chat

  Meta's new Incognito Chat uses end-to-end encryption and stores no conversation logs on servers, distinguishing it from other encrypted AI chat options available today.

• № 05 · Fast Company

  Anthropic courts mom-and-pop shops with Claude for Small Business

  Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business with 15 agentic workflows and connectors to QuickBooks, Canva, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack.

• № 06 · The Guardian

  Chinese court awards compensation to sacked worker replaced by AI

  A Chinese court awarded a worker over 28,000 pounds in compensation after his employer replaced him with artificial intelligence, signaling tension between AI adoption and job security.

• № 07 · Financial Times

  AI Labs: Google DeepMind plans its comeback

  Google and its AI lab DeepMind are intensifying competition against OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems.

• № 08 · Financial Times

  Musk made ‘hair-raising’ demands for control of OpenAI, Altman testifies

  During testimony in his legal battle with Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the billionaire's demands for control of the company as hair-raising.

• № 09 · VentureBeat

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

  Salesforce transformed Slackbot from a notification tool into a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking autonomous action.

• № 10 · The New York Times

  Crypto Industry Pushes a Bill to Tilt Regulation in Its Favor

  Following political victories under President Trump, cryptocurrency firms are lobbying Congress for a sweeping regulatory framework they helped design.

• № 11 · TechCrunch

  Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta’s news chief, has thoughts

  Campbell Brown, formerly Meta's news chief, argues that conversations about AI governance in Silicon Valley diverge sharply from what consumers actually want and need.

• № 12 · TechCrunch

  Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center

  Elon Musk's xAI is operating nearly 50 gas turbines without proper oversight at its Mississippi data center, prompting a lawsuit over the use of mobile turbines as power plants.

• № 13 · MIT Tech Review

  AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

  Google's AI chatbots are surfacing people's real phone numbers without consent, and users report no straightforward way to prevent their contact information from being exposed.

• № 14 · Financial Times

  White-collar workers report growing feelings of ‘AI brain fry’

  White-collar workers are reporting feelings of overwhelm and cognitive exhaustion as they adapt to new artificial intelligence tools in their daily work.

• № 15 · The Verge

  Microsoft doesn’t want any of this

  Microsoft has maintained a notably detached posture during the Musk v. Altman trial, preferring to avoid involvement in the dispute over OpenAI's future direction.

• № 16 · The Guardian

  ‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

  Utah approved a massive datacenter project spanning twice Manhattan's size, drawing fierce backlash over its enormous power consumption and water use in a drought-stricken region.

• № 17 · Financial Times

  How the dream of a non-profit OpenAI died

  The legal battle between Musk and Altman reveals how OpenAI's transformation from nonprofit to for-profit structure undermined its original mission.

• № 18 · VentureBeat

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

  Anthropic's Claude Code costs up to 200 dollars monthly, sparking developer backlash as free alternatives like Goose offer comparable autonomous coding capabilities.

• № 19 · The Guardian

  Gotta catch an MP! Players ‘debate’ UK politicians in Pokémon-style game

  A new Pokémon-inspired game called Politidex lets players debate UK politicians, aiming to humanize politics and shift public perception of elected representatives.

• № 20 · MIT Tech Review

  The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn

  Women report discovering their bodies used in deepfake pornography, with facial recognition technology making it difficult to prevent nonconsensual synthetic sexual content.

• № 21 · TechCrunch

  Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante

  Legal tech startup Clio reached 500 million dollars in annual recurring revenue as law firms rapidly adopt AI-powered tools for practice management and client service.

• № 22 · The New York Times

  A Start-Up Aiming to Make Geothermal Energy Mainstream Goes Public

  Fervo Energy, which uses oil and gas drilling techniques to generate geothermal power, raised 1.9 billion dollars in its initial public offering.

• № 23 · The Verge

  Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs

  Microsoft Edge's Copilot AI can now gather information across all open browser tabs, allowing users to compare products, summarize articles, and ask contextual questions.

• № 24 · Fast Company

  Meta AI is coming to Threads, and some users aren’t thrilled

  Meta is testing a feature that summons its AI assistant into Threads posts and replies for real-time context, though many users report never requesting this functionality.