Vol. I · No. 25THU, MAY 14, 2026
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court showdown will dish the dirt

Might as well jump, as the poet David Lee Roth once said. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Elon Musk cofounded OpenAI, and then flounced off in a huff when he wasn't anointed CEO, leaving Sam Altman as the last power-hungry man standing. Now, Musk is back with a lawsuit, and a trial is scheduled to start in Oakland, California, on April 27th. Theoretically, it's a legal case about whether OpenAI defrauded Musk. But that's not really what we're all doing here. This is about mess. Over the past couple of years, Musk's legal theories for punishing OpenAI have run the gamut from breach of contr...

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DeepSeek V4 is built different...

Reddit discussion of DeepSeek V4 capabilities; original Chinese content translated, lacks substantive technical details.

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Is the ds/ml slowly being morphed into an AI engineer? [D]

Agents are amazing. Harnesses are cool. But the fundamental role of a data scientist is not to use a generalist model in an existing workflow; it's a completely different field. AI engineering is the body of the vehicle, whereas the actual brain/engine behind it is the data scientist's playground. I feel like I am not alone in this realisation that my role somehow got silently morphed into that of an AI engineer, with the engine's development becoming a complete afterthought. Based on industry requirements and ongoing research, most of the work has quietly shifted from building the engine t...

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