{"id":6925,"date":"2026-04-29T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/6925\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:15:08","slug":"fortune-tech-altman-v-musk-nxp-shares-jump-poolsides-new-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/6925\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Tech: Altman v. Musk, NXP shares jump, Poolside\u2019s new AI models"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. It\u2019s a big day for Big Tech earnings: Alphabet<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Meta<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a>, and more report after the closing bell.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll break it down for you tomorrow. In the meantime, consider colleague Amanda Gerut\u2019s look at Meta, which recently gave five of its top execs staggeringly high stock option targets<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cTo get to the highest rung, at which the final tranche of options would become profitable, Meta would need to reach a market capitalization of $9.46 trillion,\u201d she writes. \u201cNo company in history has ever hit that market cap, which is nearly twice the size of $5.3 trillion Nvidia<\/a>, currently the world\u2019s most valuable company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Move fast and break things, y\u2019all. Today\u2019s tech news below. \u2014Andrew Nusca<\/p>\n

Want to send thoughts or suggestions to\u00a0Fortune Tech?\u00a0Drop a line\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Judge to Altman and Musk: Keep a lid on it\"Elon<\/a>Elon Musk in Oakland, California on April 28, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jessica Christian\/San Francisco Chronicle\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t deny that there isn\u2019t something poetic about a judge telling the owner of a social media platform to put a sock in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s precisely what happened yesterday at the Musk v. Altman trial.<\/p>\n

xAI CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman\u2014the Voldemort and Harry Potter of the Wizarding World of AI\u2014haven\u2019t shied away from trading barbs over social media about their lawsuit, in which Musk accused Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman of \u201cstealing a charity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cReally excited to get Elon under oath in a few months, Christmas in April!\u201d Altman posted two months ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cScam Altman,\u201d Musk posted<\/a> two days ago, just as judicial proceedings got underway.<\/p>\n

In court on Tuesday, the judge made her disapproval known. \u201cControl your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom,\u201d U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers warned both parties.<\/p>\n

Musk said he was merely responding to public statements that OpenAI\u2019s leadership had made. \u201cOnly after they posted very publicly about this case, only then did I respond,\u201d Musk said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The judge\u2019s solution? \u201cClean slate beginning today,\u201d she said. Musk, Altman, and Brockman agreed.<\/p>\n

The trial stands to be a memorable one, if only because it will expose communications from the early days of the most valuable private AI company on the planet. Stay tuned. \u2014AN<\/p>\n

NXP shares jump 13% on auto, industrial chip resurgence<\/p>\n

Shares of NXP Semiconductors jumped 14% to $267 on Tuesday after the Dutch chipmaker offered a positive revenue forecast<\/a> for its fiscal second quarter.<\/p>\n

The magic number, or rather, range\u2014$3.35 billion to $3.55 billion\u2014was comfortably above analyst expectations of $3.27 billion. The company said it also \u2060expects quarterly adjusted profit per share of between $3.29 \u2060and $3.72, well above estimates of $3.17 per share.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s it all mean? Continued recovery in the automotive and industrial chip markets, where NXP makes most of its sales. New orders for the specialized and embedded chips that NXP and its peers make\u2014not to be confused with the high-performance AI silicon that gets all the news headlines\u2014are finally rising after a long slump going all the way back to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

With an AI revolution underway and national security winds in their sails, struggling chipmakers like NXP are finally seeing relief from the supply chain craziness that shocked their business six years ago. That\u2019s good news for everyone who\u2019s in the business of so-called software-defined vehicles and that oh-so-hot thing called physical AI. \u2014AN<\/p>\n

Poolside debuts its first open-weight model<\/p>\n

While AI titans OpenAI and Anthropic duke it out in the limelight, the San Francisco AI startup Poolside has been quietly working on its first open-weight AI model.<\/p>\n

The three-year-old company, led by former GitHub CTO Jason Warner and backed by Nvidia, this week took the wraps off two new large language models, dubbed Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Poolside describes M.1 as \u201cthe foundation for everything else we’re building\u201d and the open-weight XS.2 as \u201cremarkably capable for its size.\u201d Both models are marketed as affordable (they\u2019re free to use for a limited time), agentic workflow-optimized, and like the chefs working the line at The Bear, trained from scratch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Who would use them? In a blog post<\/a>, Poolside wrote that it\u2019s \u201cfocused on serving our government and public sector clients with capable models deployable into the highest-security environments.\u201d But the company is also interested in supporting \u201cthe wider research community\u201d by releasing the weights of Laguna XS.2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Valued at $12 billion, Poolside is competing to be a top choice for AI-driven software development alongside Microsoft\u2019s GitHub Copilot, Google\u2019s AlphaEvolve, and soon-could-be-SpaceX\u2019s Cursor\u2026plus coding agents from OpenAI and Anthropic, naturally. \u2014AN<\/p>\n

More tech<\/p>\n

\u2014Apple\u2019s iOS photo editing<\/a> may get an AI overhaul.<\/p>\n

\u2014Robinhood shares drop 6%.<\/a> A Q1 revenue miss and softer-than-expected crypto sales.<\/p>\n

\u2014Amazon and OpenAI expand their cloud computing deal<\/a>, because of course they did.<\/p>\n

\u2014Seagate shares rise 13%<\/a> on a rather rosy Q4 outlook for AI-driven data storage.<\/p>\n

\u2014Polymarket wants to bring its main exchange<\/a> back to the U.S. market.<\/p>\n

\u2014OpenAI\u2019s coding agent, Codex,<\/a> is forbidden to talk about goblins, gremlins, and more.<\/p>\n

\u2014SBF\u2019s request for a new trial:<\/a> denied by a U.S. judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning. It\u2019s a big day for Big Tech earnings: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and more report after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[6101,446,81,8,5690,6102,5692,166,203,5693,6103,6104,6014],"class_list":{"0":"post-6925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nxp","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-earnings","11":"tag-elon-musk","12":"tag-fortune-tech","13":"tag-meta","14":"tag-no-copyright","15":"tag-nxp","16":"tag-nxp-semiconductors","17":"tag-openai","18":"tag-polymarket","19":"tag-robinhood","20":"tag-sam-altman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}