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**Good morning, AI enthusiasts.** The two faces behind AI’s biggest rivalry are finally in the same room — but this time it's a federal courtroom, with Elon Musk on the witness stand and Sam Altman watching from the gallery.

Musk's $130B trial against OpenAI kicked off on Tuesday, with four weeks of testimony, hundreds of pages of private emails set to spill into the public record, major AI names on the stand, and a lot more drama still to come.

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**In today’s AI rundown:**

* Elon Musk’s $130B trial against OpenAI kicks off

* Google finalizes Pentagon deal despite protests

* Automate any manual task with Codex

* Talkie is an AI that thinks it's 1930

* 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more

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###### OPENAI

#### 🏛️ **[_Elon Musk’s $130B trial against OpenAI kicks off_](https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/tech/elon-musk-sam-altman-openai)**

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**The Rundown: **Elon Musk just [took the stand](https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/tech/elon-musk-sam-altman-openai) in federal court as opening statements began in his $130B lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing CEO Sam Altman of "stealing a charity" — while OAI's lawyer told the jury Musk sued because he "didn't get his way."

**The details: **

* Musk's suit seeks $130B in damages, the ouster of Altman and Brockman from the board, and a forced unwind of OpenAI's recent for-profit conversion.

* Musk said in his testimony that "if a verdict comes out that it's OK to loot a charity, the entire foundation of charitable giving in America will be damaged”.

* OAI’s legal team called Musk’s suit “sour grapes,” saying Musk didn’t like the success the company saw after his departure.

* Microsoft’s legal team said Musk didn’t object to OAI’s structure until after its success as xAI’s competitor, and said it “knew nothing” of Altman’s 2023 firing.

**Why it matters: **This is just Day 1 of one of the most contentious court cases the tech world has seen, and the details are going to be juicy. With high-profile AI characters  set to testify and with hundreds of pages of private messages about to spill into the public record, the next four weeks are going to be hard to look away from.

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###### GOOGLE

#### 🪖 **[_Google finalizes Pentagon deal despite protests_](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-signs-classified-ai-deal-pentagon-amid-employee-opposition)**

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**The Rundown: **Google [signed](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-signs-classified-ai-deal-pentagon-amid-employee-opposition) a classified AI deal with the Pentagon, opening its models to "any lawful government purpose," the same week that 600+ staffers wrote an open letter to CEO Sundar Pichai, calling to reject the use of AI for military purposes.

**The details:**

* More than 600 Google employees [sent](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/27/google-employees-letter-ai-pentagon/) Pichai a letter on Monday asking him to “refuse to make our AI systems available for classified workloads.”

* The Information reported that the contract opens Google's AI to “any lawful government purpose”, with no legal right to veto how the Pentagon uses it.

* OAI and xAI inked [deals](https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/) with the Pentagon last month, with Anthropic currently [fighting](https://www.rundown.ai/articles/anthropic-takes-us-government-to-court)  in court after being blacklisted for not dropping its guardrails.

* Google's no-weapons pledge was scrubbed from its [AI principles](https://ai.google/principles/) in 2025, after it was implemented in 2018 following successful [staff protests](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-ceo-pentagon-project.html).

**Why it matters: **The Pentagon drama might still feel fresh in the OAI-vs-Anthropic rivalry, but it’s not discouraging another top AI lab from making a similar deal. Google’s now wading into a messy territory from a PR and internal perspective, and time will tell if the same backlash we saw with ChatGPT now comes to Gemini’s doorstep.

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###### AI RESEARCH

#### 🕰️ **[_Talkie is an AI that thinks it's 1930_](https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie)**

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**The Rundown: **Researchers Nick Levine, David Duvenaud (fmr. Anthropic), and Alec Radford (fmr. OpenAI) [demoed](https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie) Talkie, a 13B ‘vintage’ AI model trained only on text from before 1931, built to test how AI thinks when its worldview predates the internet.

**The details: **

* Talkie was trained on 260B tokens of pre-1931 books, newspapers, journals, patents, and case law, all now in the US public domain.

* To teach talkie to chat without modern data, the team pulled instructions from etiquette manuals and cookbooks, with Claude Sonnet 4.6 grading the answers.

* The coding language Python didn’t exist in 1930, but Talkie wrote working code by flipping a plus sign to a minus sign in an example, proving it can generalize.

* AI benchmarks get poisoned when models train on their own test data — talkie sidesteps that, with a GPT-3-level version coming next.

**Why it matters: **Today's frontier models all sound vaguely similar because they all read roughly the same modern web. Talkie is definitely cut from a different cloth — but the Python coding anecdote is a fascinating part of the experiment that shows what kind of learning and reasoning is potentially going on beneath the original training data.

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**Anthropic **[added](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work) new connectors for a broader range of creative workflows, including apps like Blender, Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk Fusion, SketchUp, and more.

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###### OPENAI

#### 🏛️ **Elon Musk's $130B trial against OpenAI kicks off**

**The Rundown:** Elon Musk just took the stand in federal court as opening statements began in his $130B lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing CEO Sam Altman of "stealing a charity" — while OAI's lawyer told the jury Musk sued because he "didn't get his way."

**The details:**

* Musk's suit seeks $130B in damages, the ouster of Altman and Brockman from the board, and a forced unwind of OpenAI's recent for-profit conversion.

* Musk said in his testimony that "if a verdict comes out that it's OK to loot a charity, the entire foundation of charitable giving in America will be damaged".

* OAI's legal team called Musk's suit "sour grapes," saying Musk didn't like the success the company saw after his departure.

* Microsoft's legal team said Musk didn't object to OAI's structure until after its success as xAI's competitor, and said it "knew nothing" of Altman's 2023 firing.

**Why it matters:** This is just Day 1 of one of the most contentious court cases the tech world has seen, and the details are going to be juicy. With high-profile AI characters set to testify and with hundreds of pages of private messages about to spill into the public record, the next four weeks are going to be hard to look away from.

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###### GOOGLE

#### 🪖 **Google finalizes Pentagon deal despite protests**

**The Rundown:** Google signed a classified AI deal with the Pentagon, opening its models to "any lawful government purpose," the same week that 600+ staffers wrote an open letter to CEO Sundar Pichai, calling to reject the use of AI for military purposes.

**The details:**

* More than 600 Google employees sent Pichai a letter on Monday asking him to "refuse to make our AI systems available for classified workloads."

* The Information reported that the contract opens Google's AI to "any lawful government purpose", with no legal right to veto how the Pentagon uses it.

* OAI and xAI inked deals with the Pentagon last month, with Anthropic currently fighting in court after being blacklisted for not dropping its guardrails.

* Google's no-weapons pledge was scrubbed from its AI principles in 2025, after it was implemented in 2018 following successful staff protests.

**Why it matters:** The Pentagon drama might still feel fresh in the OAI-vs-Anthropic rivalry, but it's not discouraging another top AI lab from making a similar deal. Google's now wading into a messy territory from a PR and internal perspective, and time will tell if the same backlash we saw with ChatGPT now comes to Gemini's doorstep.

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###### AI RESEARCH

#### 🕰️ **Talkie is an AI that thinks it's 1930**

**The Rundown:** Researchers Nick Levine, David Duvenaud (fmr. Anthropic), and Alec Radford (fmr. OpenAI) demoed Talkie, a 13B 'vintage' AI model trained only on text from before 1931, built to test how AI thinks when its worldview predates the internet.

**The details:**

* Talkie was trained on 260B tokens of pre-1931 books, newspapers, journals, patents, and case law, all now in the US public domain.

* To teach talkie to chat without modern data, the team pulled instructions from etiquette manuals and cookbooks, with Claude Sonnet 4.6 grading the answers.

* The coding language Python didn't exist in 1930, but Talkie wrote working code by flipping a plus sign to a minus sign in an example, proving it can generalize.

* AI benchmarks get poisoned when models train on their own test data — talkie sidesteps that, with a GPT-3-level version coming next.

**Why it matters:** Today's frontier models all sound vaguely similar because they all read roughly the same modern web. Talkie is definitely cut from a different cloth — but the Python coding anecdote is a fascinating part of the experiment that shows what kind of learning and reasoning is potentially going on beneath the original training data.

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### 📰 **Everything else in AI today**

**OpenAI** announced that GPT-5.5, Codex, and Managed Agents are now available via Amazon Bedrock, coming a day after its new contract restructure with Microsoft.

**NVIDIA** released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, a new open model that can handle vision, audio, and text at 9x the speed of rival open multimodal models.

**The WSJ** reported that OAI fell short of its targets for revenue and user growth, with CFO Sarah Friar questioning its massive spending — with OAI calling it "ludicrous."

**Anthropic** added new connectors for a broader range of creative workflows, including apps like Blender, Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk Fusion, SketchUp, and more.

**Xiaomi** open-sourced MiMo-V2.5-Pro, which ties Kimi K2.6 on Artificial Analysis' leaderboard, featuring a 1M context window and strong efficiency for agentic tasks.

**SpAItial** launched Echo-2, a new SOTA world model that turns text or photos into explorable 3D worlds, claiming to beat World Labs' Marble 1.1 across benchmarks.

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