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Gen Z hate AI? The Musk vs Altman trial heats up, Open AI phone rumors buzz and more of the week’s most surprising developments
This week, AI is all about Elon Musk's ongoing feud with Open AI's CEO Sam Altman
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This week all eyes are on Elon Musk's lawsuit against Open AI CEO Sam Altman. It's the culmination of a feud that's raged for years, mostly playing out online until now, and it's likely to have huge repercussions for not only the future of Open AI, but the future of the AI industry as a whole. So far, the courtroom details have already been extraordinary — and not always in ways that flatter.
Alongside the trial, several other big AI news stories caught my attention this week. Lots, as always, involving Open AI — from news that the company may soon launch a phone to the discovery that a coding model was told not to reference goblins or mythical creatures.
The Tech Radar team also covered some great hands-on experiments this week. From asking Chat GPT to build a schedule around the best lesson from 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' to putting Chat GPT Images 2.0 and Google’s Nano Banana 2 head-to-head, which do you think came out on top?
Want the latest AI news? Here are the biggest stories from the past week
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off over AI’s real danger
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Welcome to ICYMI AI, your weekly round-up of the most important developments in artificial intelligence. Here are the biggest AI stories from last week and why they matter.
Elon Musk is suing Open AI, CEO Sam Altman and the company’s co-founder Greg Brockman for a huge $130 billion. He’s arguing that they betrayed the company's original plan to be a non-profit. However, his motivations are complicated by the fact that he runs his own AI company, x AI. There's more to this trial beyond the drama, though.
At its core, this trial really feels like a test of whether AI companies can ever stick to a mission, especially remaining a non-profit, once money, compute and competition scale up to dizzying levels. If Musk wins, Open AI could face a very messy restructuring that’ll impact leadership, funding and product development. If he loses, it’ll reinforce that building the latest AI tech may always pull companies toward commercial priorities, no matter how they started out.
Either way, it puts a lot of pressure on external regulation to fill the gap that good intentions alone can't close.
Read more: ‘This is a real risk, we all could die as a result of artificial intelligence’ — the Open AI trial took a dramatic turn as Elon Musk and Sam Altman faced off over AI’s real-world danger
Read more: Letting Open AI win risks 'losing every charity in America' Elon Musk says in court, as his lawsuit hearing begins
Reports emerged this week that Open AI, the makers of Chat GPT, may be building a smartphone. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported that the device is in development with Media Tek and Qualcomm working on a custom chip and Luxshare handling manufacturing. Speculation is that mass production is targeted for 2028. However, Open AI hasn't commented.
It looks like the concept behind this Open AI phone will replace apps with AI agents, maintaining context and completing tasks on your behalf — similar to Google’s plans to turn AI into a layer over everything that we reported on last week.
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But think about the broader implications, if Open AI controls the hardware, it means it’ll bypass big tech players like Apple and Google entirely. As we said last week, how you feel about Open AI increasingly trying to build an ecosystem rather than just be a chatbot depends on how much you trust Open AI.
Read more: Open AI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps
A new report from The Verge that’s certainly ruffled a few feathers this week finds that the more young people use AI, the less they like it. According to the report, despite being among the biggest adopters of chatbot tools, Gen Z workers and students are increasingly resentful of what many describe as an AI-centric future being forced on them — with some actively choosing career paths where they'll never have to use it.
This matters because for the past year, the dominant story has been adoption, especially among young people who I’ve seen described as "AI natives" many times. But this is one of several clear signs of friction in recent weeks. If the people expected to build, use and normalize AI long-term are already losing trust, it complicates the idea that the technology will just slot smoothly into everyday life.
Read more: The more young people use AI the more they hate it
China’s power grid will soon be run by an army of humanoid robots: According to the South China Morning Post, the Chinese government plans to put thousands of robots to work on the nation’s infrastructure. It’s interesting to see what large-scale AI deployment may look like and highlights how China is leaning into rapid, state-backed rollout of AI compared to the US.
Open AI tells its latest model to stop talking about goblins: In one of the more light-hearted stories of the week, Wired reports that Open AI really wants its coding agent to never talk about goblins, gremlins or other animals or creatures. It looks like past iterations of the model assumed “bugs” meant mythical creatures and that’s why Open AI had to spell things out in new instructions.
We compared Chat GPT Images 2.0 and Google’s Nano Banana 2: We used real-world prompts, but which AI image generator do you think came out on top? You’ll have to click through to find out, but we were fascinated to find out that although both models were similar, one excelled when it came to realism.
I tried using Chat GPT to follow The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People step by step: Tech Radar’s AI editor Graham used Chat GPT to break down a classic self-help system into a structured plan. The results were surprising and prove Chat GPT can really excel as a self development partner.
Open AI hit with lawsuits over failure to report school shooter: We saw this one coming last week. According to reports, Open AI’s moderation tools flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar’s Chat GPT account for discussions of violence. But after much debate, Open AI didn’t report her to local law enforcement and instead deactivated her account. Now several families are suing Open AI for not taking action sooner.
The Pentagon now has a deal with seven AI companies: Companies like Open AI, Google, Nvidia and several others have now agreed to ‘any lawful use’ of their tech by the US military. Anthropic wasn’t included. This deal raises all sorts of questions about where the boundaries are, and who decides how these systems are used.
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Becca is a contributor to Tech Radar, a freelance journalist and author. She’s been writing about consumer tech and popular science for more than ten years, covering all kinds of topics, including why robots have eyes and whether we’ll experience the overview effect one day. She’s particularly interested in VR/AR, wearables, digital health, space tech and chatting to experts and academics about the future. She’s contributed to Tech Radar, T3, Wired, New Scientist, The Guardian, Inverse and many more. Her first book, Screen Time, came out in January 2021 with Bonnier Books. She loves science-fiction, brutalist architecture, and spending too much time floating through space in virtual reality.
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