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GOOD GAME: Booing AI, Musk loses, BYD and public transit win, empty Waymos
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The Good Game
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed by graduates at mention of AI
And yet: College students are booing commencement speakers celebrating AI, but the wave of hate hasn’t stopped them from using it to cheat on their exams
Elon Musk loses court battle against Sam Altman and OpenAI after 3-week trial
A federal jury in Oakland, California, on Monday said Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over claims they allegedly violated an agreement to run their artificial intelligence venture strictly as a charitable nonprofit.
The advisory jury’s verdict, which came after less than two hours of deliberations, was immediately adopted by District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
In a post on his social network X, Musk called the decision a “calendar technicality … There is no question to anyone following the case in detail that Altman & Brockman did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity. The only question is WHEN they did it!”
And yet: Jury Throws Out Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit in Under Two Hours, Clearing Path for Sam Altman's IPO
Pope Leo launches an AI commission days before he releases a papal letter alongside Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah
The Vatican is treating AI as a core moral issue, not a side topic.
Pope Leo is moving fast: a new AI commission lands just before his first major AI-focused encyclical.
The message is clearly human-centered: dignity, justice, labor, and protection of people come first.
Bringing in Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah signals the Church wants direct dialogue with top AI builders, not just criticism from the sidelines.
This looks like an attempt to shape AI norms early, before the technology’s social impact hardens into policy and culture
The AI economy is rewriting the American Dream — and blue-collar workers are poised to win
The rapid spread of AI across corporate America is creating a crisis for young adults with college degrees who are finding a slowdown in hiring for entry-level positions in AI-exposed industries.
And yet: Don’t hold your breath for the great AI job reshuffle, says Goldman Sachs—there’s little evidence of ‘too many coders and not enough plumbers’
And yet: Despite degrees being slammed as ‘useless’ by Gen