Daily dispatch

May 18, 2026

Issue filed May 18, 2026 · 24 headlines · By Oz Gultekin

Daily dispatch for May 18, 2026. 24 headlines from labour, tech, and policy feeds, rewritten by hand for the class war in progress.

№ 01 MIT Tech Review

Musk v. Altman week 3: Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side.

In closing arguments, lawyers for Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed over credibility as a jury prepares to decide the high-stakes OpenAI ownership dispute.
№ 02 TechCrunch

Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial

The Musk v. Altman trial hinged on whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman can be trusted to lead the company and its AI development.
№ 03 The Guardian

What we learned from the cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman

A nine-person jury will decide if Elon Musk's allegations that Sam Altman stole OpenAI from its charitable mission have merit.
№ 04 Financial Times

The fate of OpenAI’s $1tn IPO will be decided in an Oakland jury room

Elon Musk's legal challenge to OpenAI could derail the artificial intelligence startup's planned initial public offering.
№ 05 The New York Times

OpenAI Trial Heads to Jury After Closing Arguments in Musk vs. Altman Case

Nine jurors will begin deliberations next week after lawyers presented closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman federal trial.
№ 06 The New York Times

Ishmael Reed Is Writing a Play About Elon Musk

Playwright Ishmael Reed is writing a theatrical work about Elon Musk and his role in Silicon Valley's billionaire class.
№ 07 VentureBeat

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

Salesforce launched a rebuilt Slackbot AI agent that can search enterprise data, draft documents, and take actions for employees.
№ 08 Financial Times

Business schools move beyond the basics to teach collaboration with AI

Business schools are teaching executives how to make decisions and collaborate effectively with artificial intelligence systems.
№ 09 The Verge

Revamped Siri will reportedly offer autodeleting chats

Apple's revamped Siri will offer users the option to auto-delete chat histories after 30 days, one year, or keep them forever.
№ 10 The Verge

University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement

University of Arizona students booed former Google CEO Eric Schmidt during commencement as he promoted artificial intelligence.
№ 11 TechCrunch

The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning

The Musk v. Altman trial concluded with closing arguments centered on whether the people leading AI companies can be trusted.
№ 12 The Verge

OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to win AI agent battle

OpenAI reorganized its leadership, making Greg Brockman head of product as the company prioritizes building AI agent platforms.
№ 13 The New York Times

Cerebras, A.I. Chip Maker, Rises 89% in Market Debut as Tech IPOs Ramp Up

Cerebras, a Silicon Valley artificial intelligence chip maker, surged 89 percent in its stock market debut on Thursday.
№ 14 Ars Technica

Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day

Cisco announced record revenue while simultaneously laying off 4,000 employees in what executives called a strategic restructuring.
№ 15 VentureBeat

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

Claude Code costs up to $200 monthly, but open-source alternatives like Goose offer similar AI coding capabilities for free.
№ 16 Financial Times

Anthropic to brief global financial watchdog on cyber flaws exposed by Mythos

Anthropic will brief the Financial Stability Board about cybersecurity vulnerabilities exposed by its new Mythos AI model.
№ 17 The New York Times

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93

Peter G. Neumann, a pioneering computer security researcher who warned of industry negligence, died at age 93.
№ 18 TechCrunch

Apple’s Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats

Apple's revamped Siri will emphasize privacy protections as a key differentiator in the competitive artificial intelligence market.
№ 19 The Guardian

The Guardian view on policing the internet: Ofcom must push harder on illegal content | Editorial

Ofcom fined a suicide forum $950,000, marking intensified efforts to regulate online harms and illegal content on the internet.
№ 20 The Guardian

‘Nobody’s negotiating for the people here’: comedian Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters

Comedian Charlie Berens is opposing an $8 billion AI datacenter project in Wisconsin that he says ignores local community concerns.
№ 21 TechCrunch

The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

The artificial intelligence industry boom is generating skepticism even among technology sector workers and investors.
№ 22 TechCrunch

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy

OpenAI appointed Greg Brockman to lead product strategy as the company plans to merge ChatGPT with its Codex programming tool.
№ 23 The Guardian

Pity the poor AI data centers facing ‘discrimination’ | Arwa Mahdawi

AI data centers are consuming resources needed by regular people, prompting local resistance to new facility construction projects.
№ 24 The New York Times

OpenAI Bought Company That Offered A.I. Tools for Cloning Voices

OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, a social network platform for creating and sharing artificial intelligence algorithms and models.

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