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Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
OpenAI had layoffs at Musk’s insistence.

Five to 10 people were laid off after Musk demanded a list of people with their contributions by their names. It had a “significantly negative” impact on morale and made recruiting more difficult.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Greg Brockman tells the court that while at OpenAI, he and three others worked at Tesla.

Elon Musk requested that they come help. “It was pretty clear this was not something we could say no to,” Brockman says. Brockman claims this was something he worried about when it came to joining OpenAI.

So over the course of several months, the OpenAI group worked on self-driving. One of those engineers, Andrej Karpathy, permanently joined Tesla afterward. “I have an apology and a confession,” Musk said. “I made an offer to Andrej to run autopilot and he accepted.”

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
YGR is on the bench.

We have some matters to take care of before we get the jury back.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
The production version of Boston Dynamic’s Atlas is also impressively agile.

The company announced the latest version of its humanoid Atlast robot at CES 2026 with an immobile prototype on stage and CG animations. But despite the new Atlas being destined for Hyundai factories, a new video from Boston Dynamics reveals the robot is just as agile, flexible, and capable as previous versions.

Google’s AI architect lived rent-free in Elon Musk’s head

DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis was a constant figure of fear among Musk and other OpenAI higher-ups.

Hayden Field
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Coinbase is cutting 14 percent of its staff.

As Reuters reports, the crypto exchange is laying off around 700 employees. CEO Brian Armstrong wrote in a letter to staff that crypto is “currently in a down market,” which, along with increasing use of AI, is pushing Coinbase to reduce costs.

Bose takes a swing at Sonos with its new home speakers

The Lifestyle Ultra speakers have big sound, can group with non-Bose speakers, and don’t need the Bose app to stream.

John Higgins
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
iPhone 17 sales are still going strong.

It was the top-selling phone in Q1 according to Counterpoint, with 6 percent of global sales. The 17 Pro and Pro Max weren’t far behind, with Samsung A series phones and the Xiaomi Redmi A5 also at the top. The Galaxy S26 Ultra just missed the cut, after launching in the middle of the quarter.

Bar chart showing the top 10 phone models for global sales in Q1 2026, with the iPhone 17 at the top
This year’s top 10 made up a record 25 percent of total phone sales.
Image: Counterpoint
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Samsung Display’s new phone screens are more colorful than ever.

New announcements made at SID Display 2026 include the “world’s widest color gamut OLED” for phones, with BT.2020-96 color coverage at up to 3,000 nits of brightness. There’s also an updated version of the health-sensing OLED it revealed in 2023, which can measure heart rate and blood pressure through the panel.

The Samsung Display Flex Chroma Pixel OLED being showcased at SID Display 2026.
Even from these images, the new Flex Chroma Pixel OLED certainly looks brighter and more vibrant than the unspecified screen model on the right.
Image: Samsung Display