Roundtables: Inside the Musk v. Altman Trial

Listen to the session or watch below Elon Musk lost his suit against OpenAI, in which he alleged CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman had deceived him over the company’s non-profit status. Watch as AI reporter and attorney Michelle Kim, who covered the trial for MIT Technology Review, joins in conversation with editor in…

19 May 2026

Understanding the modern cybercrime landscape

Throughout 2025, HPE observed significant changes in how cybercriminals operate. Analyzing real-world threats, our HPE Threat Labs highlighted an industrialization of the cyber criminals’ methods in its new In the Wild Report, enabling greater scale, speed and structure in their campaigns. They typically use automation and AI to exploit longstanding vulnerabilities, and many have adopted…

19 May 2026

The Download: Musk v. Altman, smart glasses for warfare, and Google I/O

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s why Elon Musk lost his suit against OpenAI Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against OpenAI, which centered on whether the company breached its founding contract as a nonprofit. A…

19 May 2026

Colossal Biosciences is growing chickens in a 3D-printed artificial eggshell

The baby chicks were shifting and starting to pip—or trying to hatch. But not from an egg.  Instead, these chickens were growing inside transparent 3D-printed plastic cups at the Dallas headquarters of Colossal Biosciences. The biotech company today claimed it has developed a “fully artificial egg” as part of its effort to resurrect extinct avian…

19 May 2026

Here’s why Elon Musk lost his suit against OpenAI

On Monday, the jury in Musk v. Altman dealt Elon Musk a major blow—reaching a unanimous advisory verdict that he had sued OpenAI too late and, as a result, his claims are barred by the applicable statutes of limitations. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers immediately accepted it.  Musk announced on X that he will…

19 May 2026

What to expect from Google this week

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When Google opens its doors tomorrow for its annual developer conference, I/O, it will do so as a clear third place in the foundation model race. A year ago, at Google I/O…

18 May 2026

Inside Anduril and Meta’s quest to make smart glasses for warfare

The defense-tech company Anduril has shared new details about the augmented-reality headset for the military it’s prototyping with Meta, including a vision for ordering drone strikes via eye-tracking and voice commands. Quay Barnett, who leads the efforts as a vice president at Anduril following a career in the Army’s Special Operations Command, says his fundamental…

18 May 2026

The Download: Musk v. Altman week 3, and Trump’s tech trading

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side. In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial,…

18 May 2026

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

Update: On Monday May 18, the jury sided with OpenAI, delivering an advisory verdict finding that Musk’s claims are barred by the statute of limitations. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers accepted the verdict. In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s…

15 May 2026