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The courtroom drama between Elon Musk and OpenAI showed no signs of cooling this week, as lawyers for OpenAI put Musk himself on the hot seat during cross-examination. Internal messages revealed Musk privately worried that his aggressive tactics to control the company would make its leadership want to, quote, kill him. It is a rare glimpse into how personal and how high-stakes the battle over AI's future has become.
Shifting from the courtroom to the lab, researchers publishing in Nature are lending new credibility to an old piece of folk wisdom. Eating when you have a cold may actually help your immune system fight back faster, with the study suggesting that food intake primes immune cells for action. It is a reminder that sometimes the science catches up to grandma.
And finally, a quieter but genuinely compelling story out of NASA, where Ryan Schulte, the Orion spacecraft's flywheel project manager, is helping develop the exercise systems that will keep astronauts healthy on deep space missions. The Artemis program is still very much a story about the people doing the unglamorous, essential work behind the headlines.
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