An OpenAI executive told a federal jury on Wednesday that Elon Musk called him a "jackass" during a heated 2018 confrontation over artificial intelligence safety, the latest in a series of unflattering portraits of Musk to emerge from the company's defense in his lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/13/2026
Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella took the stand on Monday in Elon Musk’s civil trial against OpenAI, giving jurors a close look at the partnership that helped turn the AI lab Musk once backed into one of the most powerful companies in technology.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/12/2026
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI moved into a new phase this week as testimony from OpenAI President Greg Brockman shifted attention from Musk’s account of the company’s founding to questions about the financial interests of OpenAI’s current leadership.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/05/2026
Meta Platforms has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a robotics artificial intelligence startup focused on humanoid systems, as the company expands its AI work beyond software and into models that could help robots operate in physical environments.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/04/2026
As Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI moves into its second week of trial, the courtroom focus is shifting from the company’s nonprofit origins to the financial rewards received by its leaders.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/04/2026
The U.S. Defense Department has reached agreements with additional technology companies to expand the use of advanced artificial intelligence tools on classified military networks.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/01/2026
Elon Musk concluded three days of testimony on Thursday in his lawsuit against OpenAI, as lawyers for the ChatGPT maker sought to challenge his claim that the company improperly abandoned its nonprofit roots.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/01/2026
Google Cloud has introduced a new platform for building and managing enterprise AI agents, as the company seeks to turn its Gemini models and Vertex AI tooling into a broader system for automating business workflows.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/30/2026
Elon Musk returned to the witness stand on Wednesday in his lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company he helped found of using its nonprofit origins to gain public trust before moving toward a for-profit structure.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/29/2026
Elon Musk took the stand on Tuesday in a federal trial over whether OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company he helped create, abandoned its founding nonprofit mission as it grew into one of the world’s most valuable technology firms.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/28/2026
Meta is scaling aggressively into AI infrastructure, committing to tens of millions of AWS Graviton chips to power next-generation agentic AI.
AI is boosting individual developer productivity, but not overall team performance, exposing bottlenecks in broader engineering workflows.
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, the latest version of its artificial intelligence model for ChatGPT and Codex, as the company continues to update its systems for software development, research, and workplace tasks.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/23/2026