AI Leaders' Weekly Takes

AI Leaders Weekly: May 8–15, 2026

A weekly digest covering seven AI leaders (May 8–15): Altman testifies in the Musk trial while running a concentrated Codex push; Jensen Huang addresses AI's labor impact at CMU then heads to Beijing; Amodei publishes a US-China geopolitics paper; Hassabis closes Isomorphic Labs' $2.1B raise; Sutskever testifies against his former CEO; plus Socher's $650M raise, xAI→SpaceXAI, and Mistral's sovereignty testimony.