Elon Musk’s claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors returned a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late. Musk accused Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI and Microsoft of “stealing a charity” by creating a for-profit affiliate of the frontier AI lab. Jurors, however, found that … Read more
Movable dividers. Infinite layouts. One system. Live now on Kickstarter from US$42. Melbourne, AU (May 2026) – Orbitkey, the Melbourne-based organisation brand behind 12 successful Kickstarter campaigns and over 67,000 rewards delivered, today launches the Grid Desk Organiser on Kickstarter. It is the brand’s most ambitious desk product to date: a modular, stackable desk organisation … Read more
For AI systems to keep improving in knowledge work, they need either a reliable mechanism for autonomous self-improvement or human evaluators capable of catching errors and generating high-quality feedback. The industry has invested enormously in the first. It's giving almost no thought to what's happening to the second. I’d argue that we need to treat … Read more
Working from home has its own perils. Pets can be demanding, your back aches from hours at a desk, or you simply forget to move. There are a few apps that nudge you to move around or indicate that you’re not sitting in an ideal position, but they’re easy to dismiss. I’ve spent the better … Read more
5./15 West/Getty Images Snap and YouTube have reportedly reached a settlement in a major lawsuit with a Kentucky school district just weeks ahead of trial Bloomberg reports. The case is one of several around the country that have alleged that social media companies have harmed students through … Read more
Observability startup Raindrop AI’s new open source, MIT Licensed "Workshop" tool, launched today, gives developers something that they've likely wanted, perhaps subconsciously, since the agentic AI era kicked off in earnest last year: a local debugger and evaluation tool specifically designed for AI agents, allowing devs to see all the traces of what their agent … Read more
Cerebras Systems raised $5.5 billion in its IPO on Thursday, pricing shares at $185 Wednesday evening, way higher than its range ($115 to $125, later raised to $150-$160), even as it increased the size of the offering to 30 million shares. It then opened to public trading at $385, more than double (up 108%), as … Read more
KitchenAid KitchenAid has released a smart thermometer, the first from the popular cooking brand. The single probe model will retail for $100 while the dual option will cost $200. Although a maximum temperature isn’t listed in the specs, the company says that the Smart Thermometer can be … Read more
Any development environment that installed or imported one of the 172 compromised npm or PyPI packages published since May 11 should be treated as potentially compromised. On affected developer workstations, the worm harvests credentials from over 100 file paths: AWS keys, SSH private keys, npm tokens, GitHub PATs, HashiCorp Vault tokens, Kubernetes service accounts, Docker … Read more
Former Tesla executive Drew Baglino has quietly founded a heat pump startup, TechCrunch has learned. This is the second company founded by Baglino in the two years since he left Tesla. Sources confirmed the existence of the startup, called Sadi Thermal Machines, and TechCrunch has reviewed company filings in Delaware and California. Sadi was formed … Read more
