AI News — Friday, May 1, 2026
31 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a hit in India, but not a big winner elsewhere, yet
How Shivon Zilis Operated as Elon Musk’s OpenAI Insider
Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks
Good Luck Getting a Mac Mini for the Next ‘Several Months’
The craziest part of Musk v. Altman happened while the jury was out of the room
Apple was surprised by AI-driven demand for Macs
Elon Musk's 7 biggest stumbles on the stand at OpenAI trial
Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter
Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex
Researchers try to cut the genetic code from 20 to 19 amino acids
All the evidence unveiled so far in Musk v. Altman
Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?
Exclusive eBook: Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones
Elon Musk confirms xAI used OpenAI’s models to train Grok
Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI
This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs
DAIMON Robotics Wants to Give Robot Hands a Sense of Touch
The Download: the North Pole’s future and humanoid data
The hidden cost of Google's AI defaults and the illusion of choice
AI evals are becoming the new compute bottleneck
Granite 4.1 LLMs: How They’re Built
The Download: storing nuclear waste and orchestrating agents
Can Biologists Rewrite the Genome’s Spaghetti Code?
DeepInfra on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
Better Hardware Could Turn Zeros into AI Heroes
Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Long-Context Multimodal Intelligence for Documents, Audio and Video Agents
“Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI