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A jury unanimously dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft after a three-week trial, finding he waited too long to sue after OpenAI's nonprofit-to-for-profit shift.

OpenAI's defense argued Musk himself backed a for-profit structure early on and only sued in 2023 after founding xAI, framing the lawsuit as competitive retaliation rather than principled grievance.

Musk called it a "calendar technicality" and says he'll appeal, but the trial's biggest casualty may be the unanswered question of who controls a nonprofit AI lab once billions of dollars walk in the door.

Meta is laying off 8,000 employees, closing 6,000 open roles, and simultaneously reassigning 7,000 workers into four new AI-focused organizations, all announced on the same day.

The restructured teams will use "AI native design structures" with fewer management layers, as Meta pushes toward a projected $115 to $135 billion in spending this year, mostly on AI.

Meta's headcount stood at 78,000 at the end of 2025. Between the cuts and reassignments, roughly a quarter of the company is waking up to a different job this week.

Apple announced a wave of Apple Intelligence-powered accessibility updates including smarter VoiceOver descriptions, AI-generated video captions, and natural language voice commands that work across Maps, Files, and other apps.

The updates go further than UI tweaks: Vision Pro users will be able to control compatible wheelchairs with their eyes, and Live Recognition now lets users point their iPhone camera at anything and ask follow-up questions about it.

Apple timed this drop for the day before Google I/O. The features are expected in iOS 27 later this year, so the announcement is more a preview than a release.

Pope Leo XIV will release his first major papal document on May 25, addressing AI's impact on human dignity, workers' rights, and warfare, with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah joining the Vatican presentation.

The encyclical, titled "Magnifica Humanitas," was signed on May 15, exactly 135 years after Leo XIII signed his landmark text on the Industrial Revolution and workers' rights under capitalism.

Inviting a tech executive to a traditionally cardinal-led event is a deliberate signal. If the cardinals present it alone, one Vatican correspondent noted, nobody really listens.

xAI asked employees to submit their personal US tax returns to train Grok's tax-prep features, promising $420 per submission timed to the April 15 deadline. Two months later, nobody has been paid.

The missing payments likely fell through the cracks of xAI's merger with SpaceX in February, which saw all eleven original co-founders depart and payroll systems absorbed into a new corporate structure still being rebuilt.

The dollar amount is small enough to cover in an afternoon. What it signals about a $250 billion company's operational state, mid-rebuild, is less easy to write off.

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