Elon Musk needs a $134 billion payout from OpenAI and Microsoft

A part of a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its non-profit standing claims Musk is owed anyplace from $79 billion to $134 billion in damages for the “wrongful good points” of OpenAI and Microsoft.

Musk claims within the submitting that he’s entitled to a bit of the corporate’s current $500 billion valuation, after contributing $38 million in “seed funding” through the AI firm’s early years. It wasn’t simply cash — in response to the submitting, Musk helped advise on key worker recruitment, introductions with enterprise contacts and startup recommendation.

If this sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of the lawsuit dates again to March 2024. It’s nonetheless going.

— Mat Smith

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Anthropic’s AI assistant can deal with easy duties in your PC for you.

Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s AI assistant for dealing with easy duties in your pc, is now out there to anybody with a $20-per-month Professional subscription. It was beforehand an unique characteristic for its Max subscribers, who pay a minimal of $100 per thirty days.

As a reminder, the intriguing a part of Claude Cowork is its means to work by itself. When you have the macOS Claude app and a Professional subscription, you possibly can immediate Claude Cowork to work on duties in your native pc, like creating paperwork based mostly on recordsdata you have got saved or organizing your folders. Don’t anticipate it to take care of high-level PC work simply but, however it could possibly deal with easy organizational duties.

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Her decades-long profession lastly obtained wider recognition in 2018.

Pioneering mathematician Dr. Gladys West has handed away on the age of 95. Her identify might not be acquainted to you, however her contributions shall be. West’s work laid the muse for the worldwide positioning system, GPS, all of us use (typically day by day). Past DoorDash requests and Google Maps navigation, GPS is now a vital part of industries starting from aviation to emergency response programs.

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Will the corporate be becoming a member of the likes of LG?

ASUS would possibly step again from smartphones. Based on translations of current quotes from Chair Jonney Shih, the corporate doesn’t plan to launch new telephone fashions sooner or later. Earlier reviews recommended ASUS wouldn’t introduce any smartphones in 2026, however Shih’s current feedback point out the pause might last more, if not indefinitely. We’ve reached out to ASUS for extra remark. It is not like the corporate changes its mind…

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