☕️ Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit after 3-week trial

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⚖️ Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit after 3-week trial

♿ Apple lets Vision Pro users control a wheelchair with their eyes

🤖 Meta reassigns 7,000 staff to AI

🧠 OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

💰 Google and Blackstone to create new AI cloud company

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⚖️ Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit after 3-week trial LINK

A federal jury in Oakland rejected Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI after less than two hours of deliberations, closing a three-week trial over claims the AI lab broke its nonprofit commitments.

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers backed the advisory jury, dismissing Musk's claims of breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment as untimely, and told Musk's lead counsel Steven Molo she could throw out any appeal "on the spot."

Musk had wanted the court to claw back up to $134 billion in "ill-gotten gains," remove Altman and President Greg Brockman, and unwind OpenAI's 2025 restructuring, while claims against co-defendant Microsoft were also dismissed.

♿ Apple lets Vision Pro users control a wheelchair with their eyes LINK

Apple is rolling out a new Vision Pro feature that lets people steer motorized wheelchairs using the headset's eye-tracking system, arriving later this year alongside other accessibility updates previewed before Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 21.

The power wheelchair control function works with TOLT and LUCI alternative drive systems through Bluetooth or wired connections, skips frequent recalibration, and holds up across different lighting conditions, according to Apple.

Pat Dolan, who has lived with ALS for 10 years and founded GeoALS, said the option to drive his power wheelchair on his own is "gold" to him and called the feature life-enhancing.

🤖 Meta reassigns 7,000 staff to AI LINK

Meta is moving 7,000 of its staff into four new groups built around artificial intelligence, an internal memo from HR head Janelle Gale told employees on Monday, two days ahead of planned layoffs.

The four new organizations will build A.I. tools and apps, run on what Gale called "A.I. native design structures," and have fewer managers per employee than other parts of Meta, with role details coming Wednesday.

The reassignments come just before Meta cuts roughly 8,000 workers, or 10 percent of its staff, on Wednesday, with U.S. employees getting 16 weeks of severance plus two extra weeks per year worked.

🧠 OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic LINK

Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and a well-known AI researcher, is heading to Anthropic, saying in a post on X that he's eager to get back into research and development on large language models.

Karpathy called the next few years at the frontier of large language models "especially formative," and recently said he was blown away by the progress of agentic AI for coding after dismissing agentic abilities months earlier.

He had been running Eureka Labs, his AI education startup, and said that work still matters deeply to him and he plans to pick it back up later; he previously helped build Tesla's Autopilot before leaving OpenAI in 2024.

💰 Google and Blackstone to create new AI cloud company LINK

Google and Blackstone are teaming up to launch a new U.S.-based AI infrastructure company, with the asset management firm putting $5 billion in equity capital into the venture, which Blackstone announced on Monday.

Google will supply its tensor processing units to the company, bringing the first 500 megawatts of compute capacity online by 2027, with plans to scale up further over time, according to Blackstone's statement.

The unnamed company will be led by Benjamin Treynor Sloss, Google's former chief programs officer, and the Wall Street Journal reports that Blackstone will hold a majority stake and has already picked likely data center sites.

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📚 Trending papers & reports

AI alignment pretraining shows that feeding language models more text about aligned AI behavior reduced misalignment scores from 45% to 9%, proving training data narratives directly shape how AI systems behave.LINK

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