Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sources: Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator  —  Follow Grace Kay … - Elon Musk started xAI with 11 cofounders in 2023.  — The last remaining one, Ross Nordeen, has now exited the company.

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the decadelong feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei; sources say Amodei likened Altman's legal fight with Musk to Hitler's fight with Stalin  —  Personal wounds and power struggles between the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are defining how the world encounters the technology

Kevin Lincoln / Bloomberg:
Chess grandmasters find new ways to win by making less optimal moves after AI pushed classical chess toward perfect play, breathing new life into the game  —  Artificial intelligence drove chess toward perfect play, leading to more draws at top tournaments.  Now grandmasters are winning by making less optimal moves.

Newcomer:
A look at some themes at this year's Hill and Valley Forum: embracing government-led industrial policy to onshore manufacturing, AI's unpopularity, and more  —  Plus, Kleiner's big fundraise & a reckoning for social media … The Main Item  —  Industrial Policy Gets New Life as Tech Eyes Government Incentives

Christopher Beam / Bloomberg:
Prediction market bets decided on linguistic technicalities expose how hard it is to turn language into a binary market, with payouts hinging on a single word  —  Bets decided on linguistic technicalities are exposing how hard it is to turn language into a binary market with payouts hinging on a single word.