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In a San Francisco courtroom, Sam Altman offered a striking portrait of Elon Musk during deposition testimony, describing a man fixated on controlling OpenAI and — in one particularly striking moment — floating the idea of passing the organization to his children. Musk's legal team pushed back hard on Altman's own financial entanglements, but the headline image is of a co-founder whose ambitions may have outrun the mission.
Speaking of Musk, his AI data center venture xAI has added nineteen new gas turbines at its Colossus two facility in Memphis, even as a lawsuit over air quality violations continues to move through the courts. The expansion raises pointed questions about whether the race to power large language models is being run faster than the regulatory and environmental guardrails can keep up.
And in healthcare, a Medicare payment model called ACCESS is quietly creating the first federal mechanism to actually reimburse AI agents for the work they do between patient visits — monitoring, coordinating care, following up on medications. Most of the tech industry hasn't noticed yet, but the implications for how AI gets deployed in clinical settings could be enormous.
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