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  Tech-Reader AI Digest Wednesday, May 13, 2026 #AI   #TechNews   #Digest Story 1: Altman Concludes Testimony — "He Didn't Steal a Charity. Musk Abandoned One." What happened:  Sam Altman concluded his testimony Wednesday morning after approximately four hours on the stand across Tuesday and Wednesday. He walked out of the courtroom behind Greg Brockman. Closing arguments are Thursday. The trial is effectively over. Altman's central argument, stated plainly: he didn't steal a charity — Elon Musk abandoned one. He testified that after Musk stopped giving money to OpenAI, he redoubled efforts to find charitable contributions from other sources, including Reid Hoffman and Dustin Moskovitz, and that the for-profit structure was the only viable path to raising the capital needed to build competitive AI. On Musk's demand for control: Altman testified that Musk felt very strongly about having total control over OpenAI, at least initially — partially because Musk didn...

  S3 Error: “An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the PutObject operation: Access Denied” Fix the exact permissions, policy, encryption, and ownership issues that cause S3 uploads to fail with PutObject AccessDenied errors in modern AWS environments #AWS   #AmazonS3   #CloudComputing   #DevOps Problem You are attempting to upload an object to an Amazon S3 bucket using the AWS CLI, SDK, application code, automation pipeline, or another AWS service, and the upload fails with the following error: An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the PutObject operation: Access Denied This error commonly appears during: aws s3 cp aws s3 sync SDK uploads Lambda uploads CI/CD artifact pushes Cross-account uploads Automated backups or exports At first glance, the error looks simple. In practice, modern S3 uploads pass through multiple layers of authorization and security controls, and any one of them can block the request. Clarifying the Issue This error means the cal...

  The Secret Life of AWS: The Orchestrator (AWS Step Functions) How to manage distributed transactions and automated rollbacks using the Saga Pattern #AWS   #StepFunctions   #SagaPattern   #Serverless Margaret is a senior software engineer. Timothy is her junior colleague. They work in a grand Victorian library in London — the kind of place where code quality is the unspoken objective, and craftsmanship is the only thing that matters. Episode 74 Timothy was staring at a customer support ticket on his secondary monitor, shaking his head in disbelief. He had spent months ensuring his decoupled, event-driven architecture was highly available, cost-efficient, and chaos-tested. Yet, a severe logical bug had just surfaced. Margaret walked into the Victorian studio and set her notebook on the table. "You have that look again, Timothy. What did the architecture do this time?" "It did exactly what I told it to do, which is the problem," Timothy admitted. "A customer pla...

  The Secret Life of AWS: Canary Deployments with AWS CodeDeploy How to safely release new code to 10% of users and automatically roll back if something breaks #AWS   #CodeDeploy   #CanaryDeployment   #DevOps Margaret is a senior software engineer. Timothy is her junior colleague. They work in a grand Victorian library in London — the kind of place where code quality is the unspoken objective, and craftsmanship is the only thing that matters. Episode 73 Timothy was staring at the blinking cursor in his terminal, his finger hovering uncertainly over the  Enter  key. He had just finished writing a major update to their checkout microservice, but he couldn't bring himself to execute the deployment command. Margaret walked into the grand Victorian library studio and noticed his hesitation. "Having second thoughts about your code?" "The code is fine," Timothy sighed, pulling his hand away from the keyboard. "It passed all our local unit tests. But our architectu...

  Tech-Reader AI Digest Tuesday, May 12, 2026 #AI   #TechNews   #Digest Story 1: Altman Takes the Stand — "I Believe I Am an Honest and Trustworthy Businessperson" What happened:  Sam Altman took the witness stand Tuesday in Oakland — the moment three weeks of trial testimony had been building toward. He testified in a blue suit and tie, initially speaking quietly and taking long pauses, visibly aware of what awaited him in cross-examination. By the time proceedings broke for recess, he had found his footing. On direct examination, Altman told the jury what he believes the company he built actually is. He acknowledged that OpenAI had used "creative ways to keep it going" — taking outside investment and creating the for-profit arm — but said the result has been "one of the largest charities" in history. He said he did not understand Musk's allegation that he and other OpenAI executives were stealing from a charity. "It feels difficult to even wrap ...