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TechCrunch May 4, 2026 at 16:57 Startups Rising Hot

Elon Musk’s only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race

Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.

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May 4, 2026 at 16:57 TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race

Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.

May 4, 2026 at 16:36 TechCrunch

Elon Musk sent ominous texts to Greg Brockman, Sam Altman after asking for a settlement, OpenAI claims

Musk texted OpenAI's president and co-founder saying that he and CEO Sam Altman "will be the most hated men in America" if OpenAI doesn't...

May 4, 2026 at 16:21 Hacker News

OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools

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May 4, 2026 at 15:59 TechCrunch

Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services

Both Anthropic and OpenAI have partnered with asset managers to more aggressively market their enterprise AI products.

May 4, 2026 at 15:05 Ars Technica

Musk’s “World War III” threat in Twitter lawsuit haunts him at OpenAI trial

OpenAI accuses Musk of trying to "coerce" a settlement days before trial started.

May 4, 2026 at 00:00 OpenAI News

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

How OpenAI rebuilt its WebRTC stack to power real-time Voice AI with low latency, global scale, and seamless conversational turn-taking.

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TechCrunch May 4, 2026 at 16:45 Startups
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TechCrunch May 4, 2026 at 18:02 Startups
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Hackers are still exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites

Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers keep targeting and hacking websites.

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TechCrunch May 4, 2026 at 16:45 Startups
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Sierra raises $950M as the race to own enterprise AI gets serious

The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to become the "global standard" for AI-powered customer experiences.

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