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Elon Musk's $134 billion lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went to trial in Oakland, with Musk claiming Altman abandoned OpenAI's nonprofit mission to pursue profit. Experts say even if Musk wins, it's unlikely to reshape the broader AI industry or force Altman out of OpenAI.

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The Work Between Factories

Building physical products — from batteries to medical devices — depends on a hidden network of small suppliers that most people never hear about. When these supplier networks are strong, hardware companies can innovate faster....

We decreased our LLM costs with Opus

A tiered AI system cut CI log analysis costs by using cheap Haiku to screen failures first—80% are duplicates, so expensive Opus rarely activates. When Opus does engage, it delegates data retrieval to Haiku sub-agents, boosting...

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A privacy first companion AI

FriendAI is an iPhone app that works as a private AI companion, running entirely on your device with no account, cloud sync, or data sent to external servers — keeping all conversations local and private.

Can Frontier AI Labs make money?

Frontier AI labs could become highly profitable through two paths: consumer personal agents (potentially a $150B market if adoption hits 60–70%) and enterprise use cases. High-stakes work like drug discovery and chip design...