Musk texted OpenAI’s Brockman about settlement two days before trial began
Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and sued the company, President Greg Brockman and CEO Sam Altman in 2026. Image: Zulfugar Karimov / Unsplash Source: CNBC
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Rivian downsizes new EV factory after Trump’s DOE slashes loan agreement
Rivian announced some changes today with regard to the factory its building in the state of Georgia. The company was planning to build the facility in two phases, each resulting in 200,000 vehicles of annual production capacity, for a total of 400,000 units. Rivian held a ground breaking ceremony late last year. Now the company…
ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of its Seedance 2.0 video generator
The company is reportedly delaying the launch as its engineers and lawyers work to avert further legal issues. Image: Ketut Subiyanto / Pexels Source: TechCrunch
Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple
Halide running on an iPhone. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Image: Abduljaleel tijjani Muhammad / Pexels Lux Optics co-founder Sebastiaan de With made headlines when he joined Apple in late January. The company was behind Halide, one of the most popular photography apps for the iPhone, which gained a cult following for its…
His house burned down. He used the insurance money to build PopSockets.
Does a consumer hardware company need to get on the VC treadmill to succeed? Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries later, PopSockets has proven that the bootstrapped, low-dilution path more viable than the industry gives it credit for. The global consumer hardware brand was built on less than $500k, no institutional capital, and a philosophy professor’s determination. Watch as founder and former CEO…
Pico’s Project Swan XR Headset Wants to Go Where the Apple Vision Pro Failed
The ByteDance company wants to make the case that XR is “not just for gaming” anymore by giving you a digital office. Image: Aleksandar Pasaric / Pexels Source: Wired
Qualcomm’s new chip is geared toward wearable AI gadgets
AI wearables, all the way down. | Image: Qualcomm Image: Pavel Danilyuk / Pexels Like it or not, more AI wearables may be on the horizon – or at least Qualcomm seems to think so. Today the company announced its new Snapdragon Wear Elite chip. At a press briefing, Qualcomm said it considers the Elite…
OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon, hours after rival Anthropic was blacklisted by Trump
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X that his company has come to terms with the Defense Department for use of its models. Image: Sanket Mishra / Pexels Source: CNBC
Trump orders federal agencies to drop Anthropic’s AI
On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, accusing Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, of attempting to “STRONG-ARM” the Pentagon and directing federal agencies to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE” use of its products. At issue is Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s refusal of an updated agreement with the US military agreeing to “any lawful use” of…
Perplexity’s new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models
Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.” Image: Andrea Piacquadio / Pexels Source: TechCrunch