☕️ Elon Musk says OpenAI betrayed its mission

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⚖️ Elon Musk says OpenAI betrayed its mission

☁️ OpenAI launches models on AWS

👶 EU says Meta fails underage user checks

🎨 Anthropic unveils Claude for Creative Work

🚗 China halts new self-driving permits after Baidu outage

Plus: 🎁 18 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 6 papers.

⚖️ Elon Musk says OpenAI betrayed its mission LINK

Elon Musk told jurors in an Oakland federal court that OpenAI abandoned its founding mission when it shifted from a charity to a for-profit company, arguing the pivot amounts to "stealing a charity" and sets a dangerous precedent.

OpenAI's lawyer William Savitt countered that Musk himself pushed to restructure OpenAI as a for-profit in 2017 and wanted majority control, saying the lawsuit is really an attempt to hobble a rival to Musk's own AI company, xAI.

The three-week trial could reshape OpenAI as it approaches a trillion-dollar valuation and a planned public offering, with Musk seeking a court order to unwind the October for-profit conversion that gave Microsoft a 27% stake and the nonprofit 26%.

☁️ OpenAI launches models on AWS LINK

OpenAI's models and its Codex coding agent are coming to Amazon Web Services through Amazon Bedrock, the two companies said Tuesday, with general availability expected in the next few weeks for AWS customers to try.

A new service called Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI will let developers build customized agents that remember previous interactions, going beyond the open-weight OpenAI models that came to AWS back in August.

The news follows Monday's reworked Microsoft deal letting OpenAI serve customers on any cloud, and builds on a $38 billion AWS commitment from November plus a $50 billion Amazon investment tied to two gigawatts of Trainium chips.

👶 EU says Meta fails underage user checks LINK

The European Commission has preliminarily ruled that Instagram and Facebook breach the Digital Services Act by failing to diligently identify and block children under 13 from using the platforms, despite Meta's own age restrictions.

Regulators said minors can enter false birth dates with no effective checks, Meta's tools for reporting underage users are hard to use, and the company does not follow up on reports, letting children keep their accounts.

If confirmed, the findings could lead to a fine of up to 6pc of Meta's worldwide annual turnover, and the Commission wants Meta to overhaul its risk assessment and bring in age-assurance technologies that are accurate and non-intrusive.

🎨 Anthropic unveils Claude for Creative Work LINK

Anthropic has rolled out Claude for Creative Work, a set of integrations that plug its AI directly into creative software from Adobe, Autodesk, Ableton, Blender, and Splice rather than asking users to adopt a separate tool.

Each connector targets a specific task: conversational 3D modelling in Autodesk Fusion, natural-language scripting in Blender, real-time visual control in Resolume, prompt-to-3D concepts in SketchUp, and in-app royalty-free sample search through Splice.

Anthropic has also joined the Blender Development Fund as a patron and is partnering with the Rhode Island School of Design, Ringling College of Art and Design, and Goldsmiths to give students and faculty access to Claude.

🚗 China halts new self-driving permits after Baidu outage LINK

China has stopped issuing new licenses for autonomous vehicles after more than 100 Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis suddenly stalled on the streets of Wuhan on March 31, stranding passengers and snarling city traffic.

Three agencies including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology met with officials from robotaxi pilot cities, calling for a full self-review and better safety monitoring, with no clear end date for the suspension.

The freeze blocks companies from adding robotaxis, starting test projects, or expanding to new cities, and it covers level four vehicles, sending Baidu, Pony AI, and WeRide shares lower in Wednesday trading.

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🧰 Trending tools

Plurai: train and deploy reliable AI agent guardrails using plain descriptions, generating validated training data without labeled datasets or annotation pipelines.LINK

Open Wearables: a self-hosted, MIT-licensed API that unifies wearable data, health scoring algorithms, and AI-ready structured context across devices.LINK

Gro v2: a unified AI sales platform combining prospecting, intent tracking, and multi-channel outreach to help teams prioritize and close high-value accounts faster.LINK

CodeHealth MCP Server by CodeScene: connects AI coding assistants to deterministic code health analysis, helping catch technical debt and guide safer refactoring in real workflows.LINK

Netlify Database: a built-in database solution for Netlify projects that eliminates external DB setup by keeping data, environment variables, and deployments in one unified workflow.LINK

UXPin Forge: lets designers build prototypes using real code components, logic, and states so they behave like actual working products.LINK

📚 Trending papers & reports

AI game development gets a major upgrade with OpenGame, an open-source system pairing a specialized 27B coding model with reusable skill libraries to build complete, playable web games from simple descriptions.LINK

CUDA Tile GPU programming outperforms FlashAttention-2 by 2.5x on Blackwell datacenter GPUs using just 60 lines of Python, but drops to 53% of FlashAttention-2 speed on other Blackwell hardware, revealing major cross-architecture gaps.LINK

OneManCompany, a new AI framework, organizes AI agents like a real company, letting teams recruit new specialized agents on demand and restructure dynamically, while guaranteeing tasks always finish without getting stuck.LINK

Military AI governance requires shifting from a simple on/off view of human control to a continuous, measurable model that actively tracks and manages control quality throughout an operation.LINK

Agentic coding performance improved significantly when researchers summarized each AI problem-solving attempt into compact, structured notes, letting Claude-4.5-Opus jump from 70.9% to 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified and 46.9% to 59.1% on Terminal-Bench.LINK

Image generation models can be fine-tuned into powerful, general-purpose vision systems that match or beat specialized tools on tasks like segmentation and depth estimation, without losing their original image-making abilities.LINK

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