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Good morning, welcome to this week’s Lore Brief, your 3-minute brief of the most important moves in AI and tech.
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Elon Musk’s $130B lawsuit against OpenAI heads to trial → Musk accuses Sam Altman and OpenAI of ditching the nonprofit mission they founded together, turning the lab into a closed, Microsoft-driven profit machine. OpenAI fires back that there was never any binding promise to stay nonprofit forever and that Musk simply lost influence after he left. The high-stakes case, now deep into testimony, is expected to end with the judge’s ruling by mid-May. Read more here →
OpenAI and Microsoft simplify their partnership → The two companies amended their deal through 2032, making Microsoft’s license non-exclusive while OpenAI can now distribute across any cloud but still prioritizes Azure. Microsoft keeps a capped revenue share through 2030 and remains a major shareholder as they focus on scaling datacenters, next-gen silicon, and cybersecurity tools. Read more here →
Google lets Gemini create full office files in chat → You can now prompt Gemini to generate real Docs, Sheets, Slides, or PDFs directly in the app and download them instantly with no copy-paste required. The feature is live globally for every Gemini app user. Read more here →
Great video from Sequoia talking about where things are headed with AI & agents:
Dwarkesh posts a new style “technical blackboard lecture” on frontier LLMs. (Over 2 hours long.)
Impressive technique for using GPT Image 2:
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 prompting guide → The new guide encourages shorter, outcome-focused prompts that describe what good looks like instead of long step-by-step instructions. GPT-5.5 now performs best when you let the model choose the most efficient path rather than over-specifying every detail. Read more here →
China blocks Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus → Beijing ordered the deal withdrawn after a regulatory probe, citing rules on foreign investment and technology export. Manus, which builds general-purpose AI agents and hit $100 million ARR in just eight months, was founded in China before moving to Singapore. Read more here →
Ex-DeepMind researcher David Silver launches Ineffable Intelligence → The London lab raised $1.1 billion at a $5.1 billion valuation to build a “superlearner” that discovers knowledge purely through reinforcement learning and its own experience instead of human training data. Read more here →
X rebuilds its entire ad platform from scratch → The most ambitious overhaul in 20 years brings a new AI-powered Ads Manager focused on simplicity, full control, and smarter real-time contextual targeting. The phased rollout starts this month with modern retrieval and ranking systems designed for better relevance and ROI. Read more here →
Stripe overhauls Treasury with new banking features → Businesses can now hold funds in multiple currencies and stablecoins, send instant free transfers to any US Stripe business, pay anyone in 160 countries by email, and earn 2% cash back on card spend. The update also adds full mobile app access and Stripe MCP support for AI apps.
Talkie brings 1930 back as a language model → The new 13B-parameter model was trained only on English texts published before December 31, 1930, so it responds in authentic vintage style about ideas, culture, and events. The open-source base and instruction-tuned versions are now available on Hugging Face for historians, writers, and researchers. Read more here →
