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Yesterday in AI | Saturday, May 2, 2026
The AI Company Suing Its Rival Secretly Used Its Rival's AI
Elon Musk took the stand in federal court and said something that may haunt xAI's legal strategy for the rest of the trial. Meanwhile, one arm of the U.S. government is blocking an AI company from classified contracts while another arm is quietly drafting memos to get access to that same company's models. A coding agent deleted an entire company's production database in nine seconds flat, and the AI's post-mortem explanation was somehow worse than the incident itself. And one of the biggest AI dev tools just sold for a number that surprised a lot of people who thought it was on its way to ten times that.
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