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A federal judge has dismissed OpenAI’s lawsuit against Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, dealing a significant blow to one of the most closely watched legal battles in the technology industry. The ruling, which came down in early 2026, effectively ended OpenAI’s attempt to use the courts to stem the flow of its employees and, allegedly, its proprietary information to a direct competitor founded by one of its own co-founders.

In what may be one of the more audacious internal experiments in Silicon Valley’s ongoing love affair with artificial intelligence, a team of Uber engineers built an AI-powered digital replica of their own chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi. The project, which surfaced publicly in late February 2026, offers a fascinating window into how large technology companies are testing the boundaries of generative AI — not just for customers, but for their own corporate hierarchies.

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook delivered one of the most candid assessments yet from a senior U.S. central banker on the economic implications of artificial intelligence, warning that the technology could trigger short-term unemployment even as it promises to reshape productivity and economic growth over the longer term. Her remarks, delivered on February 24, 2026, signal that the Fed is actively grappling with how AI-driven disruption will affect monetary policy, labor markets, and the broader trajectory of the American economy.

For more than a decade, Apple executives publicly dismissed the idea of a touchscreen Mac. Steve Jobs famously called vertical touchscreens an ergonomic disaster, and Tim Cook echoed similar sentiments for years, insisting that the Mac and iPad served fundamentally different purposes. But the winds at Cupertino have shifted decisively, and the touchscreen MacBook Pro now taking shape appears to be far more than a reluctant concession to market pressure — it may represent the most significant rethinking of the Mac form factor since the introduction of Apple Silicon in 2020.