Musk vs Altman: Two tech mavericks go head to head in OpenAI trial

Two of Silicon Valley’s best-known tech moguls, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are to face each other in court, with the trial’s jury selection getting underway this Monday. The lawsuit is brought by Musk, who accuses Altman of fraud and is seeking more than $130 billion in damages for « betraying » the AI startup’s founding mission of being non-profit. Plus, labelling rules on honey jars are set to toughen from mid-June in France, taking a new EU indication of origin rule into account. 

Le manifeste de Palantir est-il “technofasciste” ?

Dans un post devenu viral, Palantir, champion américain des logiciels de surveillance, résume ce que la technologie devrait faire à l’État. Son PDG Alex Karp y dénigre le pluralisme “vide et creux”, les cultures “médiocres” et défend l’ère de la dissuasion par l’intelligence artificielle. Les accusations de dérive autoritaire fusent.