A United Airlines plane approaches the runway at Denver International Airport, March 23, 2026.Al Drago | Getty ImagesUnited Airlines flight attendants approved a new five-year labor contract with average increases of 31% in base pay by August and other improvements, marking the last of the major carriers with unionized flight crews to reach an agreement post-Covid.The labor agreement would give United’s roughly 30,000 flight attendants their first raise in nearly six years. The company and the flight attendants union reached a preliminary agreement in March. Crews rejected a contract last year.The union said the contract had the approval of 82%…
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Bloomberg: Musk vs. Altman: Altman said that in 2017, Musk demanded complete control of a for-profit arm of OpenAI, thinking he would pass it on to his children.— OpenAI’s Sam Altman said he was “extremely uncomfortable” with Elon Musk’s insistence that he had complete control…
Reuters: The US Department of Defense says it is deploying Mythos to detect and remediate vulnerabilities within the US government, even as it plans to move away from Anthropic.— WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) – The Pentagon is deploying Anthropic’s Mythos cybersecurity model to find and remediate software vulnerabilities across…
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: AI voice startup Vapi raised a $50 million Series B led by Peak— Amazon Ring, facing a surge in customer support calls during last year’s holiday season, evaluated more than 40 AI voice providers…
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: Human Rights Watch: At least six EU member states, including Bulgaria and Denmark, have sold surveillance technology to more than 24 countries known to violate human rights— European companies sold controversial surveillance technology to countries known for violating human rights, according to a new report.
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Georgia Wells / The Wall Street Journal: AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to about 8.3 million in April, from a peak of more than 20 million in January; Recon Analytics Reports U.S. Grok Paid Adoption Remains Nearly Flat YoY in Q2— Adoption by business and consumer users has slowed as parent company SpaceX leases unused computing capacity to compete with Anthropic.
Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: How to build a business that endures through all times | Eric Ries, author of Lean Startup Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to discover practical advice to help you create, launch and grow your own product. Subscribe to Lenny’s podcast. Big Tech Podcast: The unlikely marriage of Anthropic and SpaceX, the revelations of the OpenAI trial, the AI layoffs or the solution? The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes of the tech world with interviews with hip insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to the Big Technology podcast. Training data: Mati Staniszewski…
The United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC, USA, on Monday, April 20, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed Alabama Republicans to adopt a congressional map more favorable to their party ahead of the November midterm elections, the latest fallout from the Court’s seismic voting rights ruling.The justices overturned a lower court’s ruling that blocked the state’s Republican-favored map, calling it racist and an illegal dilution of the voting power of Black Alabamians.The politically conservative Southern state is expected to seek to return to that previous map, which would reduce the number…
Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: How to build a business that endures through all times | Eric Ries, author of Lean Startup Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to discover practical advice to help you create, launch and grow your own product. Subscribe to Lenny’s podcast. Big Tech Podcast: The unlikely marriage of Anthropic and SpaceX, the revelations of the OpenAI trial, the AI layoffs or the solution? The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes of the tech world with interviews with hip insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to the Big Technology podcast. Training data: Mati Staniszewski…