⚖️ Musk vs. OpenAI heads to a California jury

🤖 Google is betting $40B that Anthropic wins the AI race

📸 Instagram tests a Snapchat like app called Instants

🔒 X launches XChat with end-to-end encryption

🖥️ Microsoft lets users pause Windows Updates indefinitely

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Jury selection begins Monday in Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, where Musk claims he was deceived into funding what was promised as a safety-focused nonprofit, not a for-profit giant.

Musk left OpenAI's board in 2018 after losing a bid to fold it into Tesla, then founded his own AI company xAI in 2023. OpenAI says the lawsuit is driven by competitive jealousy, not principle.

Musk is seeking $100 billion-plus in damages, Altman's removal, and a reversal of OpenAI's for-profit shift — and he says he'd hand any winnings back to OpenAI's nonprofit arm, which is a move.

Google plans to invest $10 billion in Anthropic now at a $350 billion valuation, with up to $30 billion more tied to performance targets. The deal also includes 5 gigawatts of Google Cloud compute capacity over five years.

Anthropic has been scrambling to secure infrastructure after user complaints about Claude's usage limits. It recently closed a $5 billion Amazon deal and a CoreWeave data center agreement, with expected cloud spending topping $100 billion over time.

Google is simultaneously Anthropic's biggest competitor and its most critical infrastructure supplier, which makes this one of the more awkward $40 billion friendships in tech history.

Instagram is testing a standalone app called Instants in Spain and Italy, letting users share one-tap, unedited photos that disappear after 24 hours and can only be viewed once.

Instants strips out all editing, camera roll uploads, and curation, targeting the same raw, ephemeral sharing niche as Snapchat, BeReal, and Locket, with sharing limited to mutual followers or Close Friends.

Instagram is chasing a trend that BeReal already peaked on, and its own Stories feature does most of this already — so Instants has a lot to prove beyond novelty.

X launched XChat on Friday, a standalone chat app for X users that offers end-to-end encryption, disappearing messages, screenshot blocking, and brings existing DMs into a dedicated interface.

XChat requires an X account, limiting its reach compared to Signal or WhatsApp. Its App Privacy page confirms it still collects contact info, identifiers, usage data, and device diagnostics linked to your identity.

X quietly stripped out location and search history collection after early backlash, which is progress, but advertising a "no tracking" app that still harvests linked identity data is a creative definition of private.

Microsoft is rolling out changes to Windows Update letting users pause updates repeatedly in 35-day windows with no cap on renewals. The update also adds a permanent option to shut down without installing updates.

The changes follow user complaints that prompted Microsoft's broader Windows 11 improvement push last month. Updates will now batch together and wait for a coordinated restart instead of interrupting whenever they feel like it.

Microsoft is also adding clearer driver update labels and a skip option during new device setup, which suggests the company finally read its own support forums.

A) No, they want AI-native talent from scratch - 41%

B) Yes, experience still beats raw enthusiasm - 59% 🏆