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xAI Expands Gas Power at Mississippi Site While Defending Lawsuit

Elon Musk's xAI has added 19 portable natural gas turbines to its Colossus 2 data center in Southaven, Mississippi over the past two months, according to internal emails obtained by WIRED through a public records request.

Altman Takes Stand in Musk Trial: Obsession for Control, Financial Entanglements

Sam Altman testified on Tuesday in the Musk v.

Medicare's ACCESS Program Opens First Payment Lane for AI Healthcare Agents

For the first time, the federal government has created a payment mechanism for AI systems that operate on patients between clinical visits.

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Sam Altman Takes the Stand in Musk Trial: Credible Testimony Meets Documented Control Dispute

After two weeks of testimony from witnesses characterizing him unfavorably, Sam Altman finally testified in person in the Musk v.

Unitree's $650,000 GD01 Mecha Is a Wall-Smashing Statement

Unitree, the Chinese robotics startup known for making affordable dancing humanoids, has unveiled its latest product: a $650,000 giant mecha called the GD01 that walks, crawls, transforms, and smashes walls.

OpenAI publishes 10-use-case Codex playbook for finance operations

OpenAI Academy released a practical guide showing how finance teams can deploy Codex to automate routine financial workstreams—from monthly business review narratives to model cleanup and board reporting packs.

AutoScout24 Group Cuts Development Cycles to Days Using Codex and ChatGPT

AutoScout24 Group, Europe's largest pan-European and Canadian online car marketplace, reduced development cycles from 2–3 weeks to 2–3 days for select projects by integrating OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT into its engineering workflows.

NVIDIA's 40,000 Engineers Are Running Production Code Through Codex on GPT-5.5

NVIDIA has distributed Codex—OpenAI's code generation system built on GPT-5.

Finance teams now have a ten-use-case playbook for Codex — from monthly reviews to variance bridges

OpenAI's Academy published a concrete playbook for finance teams deploying Codex across their monthly close, reporting, and planning workflows.

Parameter Golf: What 2,000+ Submissions Revealed About Constrained AI Research

OpenAI's Parameter Golf brought together over 1,000 researchers to tackle a deliberately constrained machine learning problem: minimize held-out loss on a FineWeb dataset while staying within a 16 MB artifact limit (model weights plus training code) and a 10-minute training budget on 8×H100 GPUs.

Amazon's AI Adoption Targets Are Backfiring Into Metric Gaming

Amazon employees are automating unnecessary work to hit internal AI usage targets, creating exactly the kind of perverse incentive that metrics-obsessed organizations breed.

Google's Rambler Enters a Crowded Dictation Market — With Built-In Advantages

Google announced Rambler, a Gemini-powered voice dictation feature for Gboard, at its Android Show: I/O Edition 2026 event.

Altman Takes Stand Against Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit, Recalls "Hair-Raising" Succession Comment

Sam Altman testified this morning in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, directly addressing the former cofounder's claim that the company's pivot to a for-profit structure amounted to stealing a charity.

Altman: Musk's Management Style Damaged OpenAI's Culture

During testimony in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman characterized the billionaire's influence on the startup as culturally corrosive, saying Musk did "huge damage" to the organization he co-founded in 2015.

Google and SpaceX Eye Orbital Data Centers for AI Compute—But the Economics Don't Add Up Yet

Google and SpaceX are in active talks to build data centers in orbit, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal.

Gemini Intelligence: Google's expanding AI control layer across Android

Google is consolidating its most advanced Gemini features under a new umbrella name — Gemini Intelligence — and rolling them out to premium Android phones like the Galaxy S26 series starting this summer.

Android 17's Nine Biggest Changes: AI Widgets, Pause Point, and AirDrop Expansion

Google unveiled Android 17's major features at its dedicated Android Show, ahead of next week's I/O conference.

Google's Natural Language Widget Builder Arrives This Summer

Google unveiled "Create My Widget" on Tuesday, a new Android feature that lets users describe custom widgets in plain English and have Gemini build them.

Google Announces Googlebooks, Agentic Gemini, and Vibe-Coded Widgets Ahead of I/O

Google held a virtual "Android Show: I/O Edition" event on Tuesday, unveiling a slate of AI-focused hardware and software updates set to arrive before its annual developer conference later this month.

Lawsuit alleges ChatGPT coached teen on lethal drug combinations before his death

Sam Nelson's parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI on Tuesday, claiming their 19-year-old son's fatal overdose resulted directly from advice ChatGPT provided about combining drugs and alcohol.

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