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Musk v. Altman: The $134 Billion Trial That Started With a Jury Problem

The juror questionnaires called Elon Musk "a greedy, racist, homophobic piece of garbage" and "a world-class jerk." Finding nine impartial Americans was the first test of a $134 billion trial that could reshape the AI industry.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 28, 2026

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Google Walked Away From Pentagon AI in 2018. It Just Signed a Classified Deal.

Google's AI principles still pledge not to build weapons. Its new classified Pentagon contract — covering "any lawful government purpose" — tells a different story. More than 600 employees are demanding their company explain the reversal.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 28, 2026

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South Africa Pulled Its AI Policy Because the AI Made Up the Footnotes

South Africa's national AI policy cleared Cabinet and went to public comment before anyone noticed the references section was partly fiction. The chatbot did it.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 28, 2026

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OpenAI Breaks Microsoft Exclusivity, Opens Door to Amazon and Google

Six months after Microsoft considered suing to block OpenAI's deal with Amazon, the AI company is now free to work with anyone. The partnership that defined the AI boom is over — at least on Microsoft's terms.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 27, 2026

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Beijing Kills Meta's $2 Billion Manus Deal. The AI Cold War Just Got Hotter.

Meta closed the deal in December. Beijing is now ordering it undone. The message to every AI startup with Chinese roots is unmistakable: relocating to Singapore won't save you.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 27, 2026

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Musk Wants a Jury to Decide if Sam Altman Can Be Trusted. He Might Get One.

Nine jurors in Oakland will weigh whether Sam Altman deceived Elon Musk about OpenAI's direction. The $852 billion company's future — and Altman's reputation — hangs on what they believe.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 27, 2026

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DeepSeek Cuts AI Prices Again — and the Race to Zero Accelerates

DeepSeek's V4-Pro generates output for $3.48 per million tokens. OpenAI charges $30. On Monday, DeepSeek cut input prices another 75 percent. The race to commoditize AI just found another gear.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 27, 2026

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"Descent Into Fascism": Inside Palantir's Worker Revolt

Two former Palantir employees reconnected by phone. The greeting wasn't "hello" — it was "Are you tracking Palantir's descent into fascism?" The people building the surveillance infrastructure are the ones sounding the alarm.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 27, 2026

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Cohere Merges With Aleph Alpha in Transatlantic Sovereign AI Push

Canada and Germany are backing a Cohere-Aleph Alpha merger to build "sovereign AI." The combined entity is valued at $20 billion. Its annual revenue: roughly $240 million.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 26, 2026

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The Supreme Court Will Decide if Your Phone Makes You a Suspect

Police didn't have a suspect — just a map and a warrant served on Google. The Supreme Court will decide if that's enough to search the location history of every person who happened to be nearby.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 26, 2026

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Steam's Latest Free Game Asks for Your Password on Launch

Economy World launched yesterday on Steam's New Releases chart. Its first two players both report it demanded their Steam login credentials in a separate window. At time of writing, it is still available for download.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 26, 2026

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Washington Warns Every Government on Earth About Chinese AI Theft

Anthropic traced 16 million fraudulent queries to three Chinese AI labs through 24,000 fake accounts. Now the State Department has told every embassy on Earth to sound the alarm.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 25, 2026

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A Backdoor Called Firestarter Was Found on a US Federal Network. CISA Won't Say Which One.

A sophisticated backdoor survived seven months of patching on an unnamed federal agency's Cisco firewall. CISA and the UK's NCSC published the technical details — but not the victim's identity.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 25, 2026

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OpenAI Knew About a Killer's Account for Eight Months. Nobody Called the Police.

OpenAI flagged and banned Jesse Van Rootselaar's ChatGPT account in June 2025. She killed eight people in February 2026. The company never contacted law enforcement.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 25, 2026

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Before Stuxnet, There Was FAST16 — and Nobody Noticed for 21 Years

A malware framework from 2005 silently corrupted physics and engineering simulations across entire facilities — predating Stuxnet by five years and raising questions about whether decades of safety-critical calculations can be trusted.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 24, 2026

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DeepSeek V4 Doesn't Need Nvidia. Washington Just Got the Message.

DeepSeek V4 processes a million words at a time, runs on Huawei's Chinese-made chips, and costs a fraction of what OpenAI charges. Washington noticed.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 24, 2026

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GPT-5.5 Arrives. OpenAI's Super App Ambitions Are No Longer Theoretical

OpenAI's fourth model in five months brings measurable token efficiency gains and the company's clearest super app blueprint yet. The NVIDIA dependency underneath got zero airtime.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 23, 2026

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Crypto Scam Lured a Ship Into Iranian Gunfire at Hormuz

Scammers posed as Iranian authorities and demanded cryptocurrency for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. At least one vessel that fell for it was fired upon by the IRGC.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 23, 2026

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The World's Richest Medical Dataset Just Turned Up for Sale on Alibaba

Half a million UK volunteers gave their health data to science. Someone with legitimate access then listed it on a Chinese shopping website. No hack required.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 23, 2026

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Intel Lands Tesla as First 14A Customer, Cracking TSMC's Grip

Intel's CEO warned he'd exit contract chipmaking without a major 14A customer. Elon Musk just handed him one — though the Austin Terafab complex it's tied to remains long on vision and short on specifics.

Jonny V. Nuovo April 23, 2026