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On May 18, a nine-member federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California unanimously ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman due to the lawsuit being filed after the three-year statute of limitations expired. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed all of Musk’s claims on the spot. On X, Musk called the ruling a “calendar gimmick,” and his lawyer announced an “appeal.” The legal core of the jury’s ruling: the three-year statute of l

BlackRock and Google announced on May 18 the formation of a joint venture to create a new US-headquartered company providing data center capacity, operations, networking, and Google Cloud tensor processing units (TPUs) on a "compute as a service" basis. According to the partnership agreement, BlackR

On May 19, Bitcoin rebounded to above $77,000. On Monday, U.S. President Trump announced on Truth Social that the planned Tuesday attack on Iran has been canceled, saying that Middle East allies asked him to “delay it by two or three days,” and that a deal is very close. Trump warned that if an acceptable agreement is not reached, the U.S. should be prepared for an invasion. White House officials confirmed that Kevin Wosch is expected to be sworn in as the FED chair at the White House on May 22.

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI asked employees in March to share tax returns and supporting documents to train Grok on tax tasks before the April 15 US filing deadline, according to Bloomberg. The company offered participants US$420 and early access to X Money in exchange for their

On May 18, Matrix Supermind, an embodied AI robotics company, unveiled its next-generation humanoid robot MATRIX-3 at the 2026 Tech Day (AI DAY) event. CEO Zhang Haixing told澎湃新闻 and other media outlets that embodied AI is transitioning from L1 to L2 level this year, with the company targeting L3-le

CITIC Securities research noted that Figure 03 humanoid robot completed a livestreamed package sorting operation, marking acceleration of humanoid robots from laboratory stage to commercial application, according to the securities firm's report. The robot operated continuously for over 80 hours

Multiple U.S. media outlets reported on May 18 that Kevin Warsh will be sworn in as chair of the Federal Reserve on May 22, 2024. President Trump will hold the swearing-in ceremony at the White House. Senate Confirmation The U.S. Senate confirmed Warsh on May 13 with a vote of 54 in favor

Zhang Haixiao, an equity fund manager at Yongyingfund, stated in a recent appearance on The Paper's "Chief Connection" program that the current semiconductor 'super cycle' is fundamentally different from previous cycles due to a shift in demand sources from AI production rather than

At the 2026 Smart Computing Infrastructure Innovation Conference held in Q2 2026, multiple venture capital investors outlined a significant shift in how they evaluate AI-related opportunities, moving away from narratives centered on matching Nvidia's scale toward identifying specialized solutions an

The percentage of staked Ethereum has climbed to approximately 31% of total supply, up from 29% at the start of the year, according to The Block's on-chain analysis. This steady accumulation has continued largely independent of price, with ETH down roughly 26% year-to-date—a notable divergence from

SGX FX, a Singapore and London-based FX technology provider, has adopted Chainlink to make its premium over-the-counter foreign exchange data available to blockchain applications. The move expands institutional currency pricing into on-chain markets, using DataLink, an institutional-grade service po

HIVE Digital is pivoting from Bitcoin mining to a CAD 3.5b, 320 MW Toronto AI "super factory" hosting 100,000+ GPUs, sending its stock up over 35% on the news. Summary HIVE Digital plans to build a 320 MW AI infrastructure park near Toronto, pitched as one of Canada's largest sovereign AI "supe

Key Insights EGRAG Crypto identified a long-term XRP compression structure that keeps higher Fibonacci targets near $9, $17, and $26 active. The analyst said XRP historically delivers strong expansions after sharp retracements and extended periods of fear, disbelief, and market

The litigation arm of the Prime Trust bankruptcy estate filed a 94-page adversary complaint against Swan Bitcoin on May 15, 2026, seeking to recover approximately $970 million in assets the company allegedly withdrew before Prime’s collapse. Key Takeaways: PCT Litigation Trust filed a 94-page

Oppo's Multi-X Team has published X-OmniClaw, an open-source Android AI agent framework that keeps core logic on-device while calling cloud-based language models only for heavy reasoning tasks. Unlike most mobile AI systems that run on cloud servers hosting virtual Android copies, X-OmniClaw