When Andrej Karpathy announced this week that he was joining Anthropic’s pre-training team, the news resonated far beyond the relatively small circle of researchers who build frontier artificial intelligence systems.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/20/2026
Google is returning to the smart-glasses market more than a decade after the commercial failure of Google Glass, this time betting that advances in artificial intelligence, miniaturized hardware, and conversational computing can turn wearable devices into a mainstream platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/20/2026
Google heads into its annual I/O developer conference this week with artificial intelligence positioned at the center of nearly every major product category, from Android phones and search to smart glasses and cloud infrastructure.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/19/2026
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI ended Monday with a procedural defeat, not a definitive answer to the question at the heart of the case: whether the AI giant betrayed the nonprofit mission on which it was founded.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/19/2026
A new report from BestBrokers ("Unicorn Startups: AI and HealthTech Post Record-Breaking Valuations in 2026") listing the world's most valuable unicorns shows that AI companies are now among the world's most valuable private startups, with several AI firms reaching valuations above $100 billion.
Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI delivered closing arguments Thursday in federal court in Oakland, California, with Musk's lead attorney opening by apologizing to the jury for his client's absence: the Tesla CEO was in Beijing accompanying President Donald Trump on a state visit to China.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/14/2026
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
Demand for artificial intelligence systems security is expected to rise sharply as companies move AI into production, with the market projected to approach $8 billion by 2030, according to a new report from the Dell’Oro Group.
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