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• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview As one of the founders of OpenAI, Elon Musk says he came up with the idea of the company, the name, recruited the key people, and provided the initial funding. He says he could've made a for-profit AI company, but chose not to. He wanted to make a “charity that does n…

• @ns123abc Nik on x

  🚨An email exchange from September 2017 was just shown to jurors Musk: “Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit.”  Altman: “I remain enthusiastic about the non-profit structure!”  The same month Brockman wrote in his diary: “i cannot believe that …

• @ceodonovan Caroline O'Donovan on x

  I'm in the court room for Musk v. Altman today, along with Musk himself. HIs lawyer is currently explaining what SpaceX is, along with every other company Musk has founded. “Whether you like him or dislike him, you can't disagree with the fact that he is a legend.”

• @cityofthetown Tom Dotan on x

  Stephen Molo's mic keeps going off at the Musk Altman trial. Now right as he describes Altman's firing and MSFT's pulling the strings to reinstate him. “Is this a Microsoft product?” he asks.

• @teddyschleifer Teddy Schleifer on x

  In the OpenAI trial, Elon Musk ❤️ Charity. In reality... [image]

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  Musk's lawyer tells the jury this case is not about Elon Musk, but about OpenAI. He says OpenAI was founded to develop AI safely given its potential risks. It wasn't avehicle for people to get rich, he says.

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Judge: “clean slate... all of you try to control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom. let's let this play through. perhaps you've never done that before. this would be a first. can you agree to that” Musk, Altman and Brockman all agree

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  decidedly less flair in OAI's opening arguments but maybe im just tired. anyway he's laying into Musk but also really about history and explaining the extremely long and winding path to this point to the jury

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Musk side opening statement is done. Attorney opened with “The defendants in this case stole a charity”. We're in a break now before OpenAI side goes up.

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  Musk's lawyer, Steven Molo, is really painting a picture of Musk for the jury as a selfless champion of the human race, who is levying this legal challenge “for the benefit of all mankind” rather than, say, a corporate strategic move among competitors.

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Savitt (OpenAI lawyer) says Musk also “sat on his claims for years” that “Musk has all the relevant info by Sept 2020. Years go by, he forms xAI in 2023 ” then lawsuits are filed. “It's too late now to gin up something to harm a competitor,” Savitt says

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview At various times, Elon says he, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever brainstormed various ways to fund OpenAI, which was a nonprofit. They talked about attaching it to Tesla or creating a for-profit entity. “I was not opposed to there being a small for-profit…

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  Musk had to walk through the metal detectors twice, after setting the machine off the first time. He forgot to take his belt off. oops!

• @ahall_research Andy Hall on x

  The Musk-OpenAI trial starts today, and it's rooted in fundamental questions about how AI is going to concentrate power. The origins of OpenAI and the battle with Musk were explicitly about “AGI dictatorship”—fears that Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, or Elon Musk might wield

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Judge is asking Musk whether she needs a gag order due to his social media use!!

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  lol okay the openai photoshop guy has some moves OAI's lawyer telling “A Tale of Two Elons” — first pic is bathed in green background, a younger, smiling musk depicted second is all red, older musk, frowning

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  “The DOTA win was a big deal.” — OpenAI's lawyers on how a (admittedly fun) computer game was proof OAI's models were getting better by beating top DOTA players online to be fair, i too think video games are a big deal

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview OpenAI's lawyer pulls up a photo of the founding members of OpenAI during the company's early days, wearing T-shirts and jeans in a scrappy office and “working day and night,” he says. Musk, who was at Y Combinator, came by occasionally to “yell at people for not movi…

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Takeaways from OpenAI's opening: “We're here because Mr. Musk didn't get his way at OpenAI,” said evidence will show Musk was always aware of the for profit plans. Noted Musk's attorney's never mentioned xAI, an OpenAI competitor ...

• @ceodonovan Caroline O'Donovan on x

  Elon Musk's lawyer's microphone has turned off probably four times in the course of his opening statement in Musk v. Open AI. On the fifth or so time, Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers sez: “What can I tell you? We are funded by the federal government.”

• @gerritd Gerrit De Vynck on x

  It's already been a long morning at Musk v. Altman et al. Reporters began lining up at 5am. Musk and Altman came in through a special entrance but went through security like everyone else. Opening statements are beginning NOW

• @katiebakes @katiebakes on x

  attorney paparazzi outside Musk v Altman [image]

• @thisiselena Elena Perez on bluesky

  advice for the masses, tbh [embedded post]

• @karlbode.com Karl Bode on bluesky

  take off and nuke the entire site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure

• r/oakland r on reddit

  Oakland, which is playing host to the trial, is not exactly known as a tech hub.  (Gift Article)