WSJ: Google Profit Jumps 81% as Cloud Business Booms (Apr. 29, 2026)
Alphabet posted $110 billion in revenue, up 22%, and $62.6 billion net income, as AI drives cloud growth and a $460 billion backlog. It raised capex plans, unveiled new TPUs, and will sell chips directly, accelerating its AI push.
NY Times: How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It) (Apr. 30, 2026)
Teachers are moving essays into class, making students write by hand, and using locked browsers to curb generative A.I., while favoring personal, process-focused prompts A.I. can’t easily mimic.
X (formerly Twitter): LLM Knowledge Bases (Apr. 2, 2026)
LLMs can compile source documents into a markdown wiki, maintain summaries, backlinks, and categories, and handle ingestion, linting, and improvement. Using Obsidian as an IDE enables Q&A, markdown or slide outputs, visualizations, and easy filing back into the wiki.
WSJ: Sam Altman Attack Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder (Apr. 13, 2026)
A 20-year-old, Daniel Moreno-Gama, allegedly threw a Molotov-style device at Sam Altman’s San Francisco home, then attacked OpenAI’s headquarters, carrying an anti-AI manifesto with names and addresses.
NY Times: Is A.I. a Threat to Humanity? Not in This Trial. (Apr. 30, 2026)
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI for breaching its founding contract, seeking $150 billion, unwinding its for-profit shift, and Sam Altman’s removal. Judge barred arguments about A.I. causing human extinction, and lawyers focused on contract facts, credibility, and timing.
Lawframe: AI Companies Can’t Regulate Themselves. They Should Regulate Each Other. (Apr. 29, 2026)
Competition undermines AI safety, creating a race to the bottom, information gaps, rapid change, and irreversible risks. A supervised self-regulatory organization, modeled on finance SROs and centered on the Frontier Model Forum, could mandate membership, set rules, and enforce oversight.