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• @firstadopter Tae Kim on x

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the stand: “Google [was] main competitor” in AI when he took over Microsoft

• @techemails @techemails on x

  Satya Nadella: “I don't want to be IBM and OpenAI to be Microsoft” April 28, 2022 [image]

• @mtslive @mtslive on x

  LIVE TRIAL UPDATE: Satya Nadella testified he never received a specific reason from OpenAI's board for Sam Altman's firing in November 2023, despite repeated attempts to find out. “I just never got any clarity from anybody on that.”

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  @jhenryphoto good nadella burn in an internal email: “I dont want [microsoft] to be IBM and OpenAI to be Microsoft” re: he wanted to make sure that MSFT was actually getting OpenAI's intellectual property and not getting left in the dust

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Nadella says Musk didn't contact him when Microsoft made its investments in OpenAI. Nadella says they have each other's phone numbers.

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  lol Nadella was calling all the board members and most left him on the proverbial read got through to D'Angelo and he was like “what is, uh, going on”

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  MSFT exec says MSFT has “recognized $9 billion in revenue” throughout the total life of their partnership with openAI. that is a figure that comes from their 20 percent revenue share. and that's after, i think, accounting for their 13b investment and Azure cloud $$$ expenses

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  Nadella, who was yanked out of a meeting when Altman was fired in 2023: “I was pretty surprised to say the least. b/c there was no reach out to me from the board, which i thought would be a pretty obvious thing to do.” customers started beating down his door, too

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  really good nadella line re: OpenAI intellectual property: “Right now we are a very think layer on top of nvidia and all the IP is with OpenAI.” “If we are going to spend this kind of money and not have control of destiny, it makes no sense.”

• @swiftstories Mike Swift on x

  Sutskever turning out of be one of the most interesting witnesses so far in #MuskAltman, with Judge YGR asking Ilya about the state of AI in 2018 compared to now. “I would describe it as the difference an ant and a cat.” #MuskAltman

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Satya Nadella says he never demanded OpenAI to reinstate Sam Altman when he was briefly fired in 2023. The board's explanation that Altman was “not candid” wasn't sufficient, says Nadella, so he sought “clarity from the OpenAI board.” And he was “very worried that the…

• @mtslive @mtslive on x

  LIVE TRIAL UPDATE: Musk's attorneys pressed Satya Nadella on whether he sought Microsoft-friendly directors during OpenAI's November 2023 board crisis. Nadella denied the characterization, saying his goal was board stability. He confirmed he proposed no directors with safety

• @mtslive @mtslive on x

  LIVE TRIAL UPDATE: Satya Nadella testified that Microsoft created a new subsidiary within 24 hours of Sam Altman's firing, designed to absorb Altman, Greg Brockman, and other OpenAI employees before market open on Monday.

• @techemails @techemails on x

  Sam Altman emails Satya Nadella April 28, 2022 [image]

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  🚨 In his testimony just now, at the Musk-OpenAI trial, Satya Nadella came off as shrewd, calm, and (mostly) honest, an impressive leader - but also selectively blind. How? He seemed unable to believe that the board doubted Sam's candor, or that the board could have fired him

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Asked whether OpenAI's for-profit subsidiary breached its nonprofit mission, Nadella says: “the nonprofit approved the creation of the for-profit entity, so they could continue to pursue the mission.” He adds: “If the pie became larger, the nonprofit would benefit as …

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella takes the stand in a black suit and sky blue tie. Since 2019, Microsoft has made investments in OpenAI's for-profit subsidiary and provided supercomputers for AI model training, in return for a license to use OpenAI's technology in developi…

• @mtslive @mtslive on x

  LIVE TRIAL UPDATE: Satya Nadella confirmed he vetoed Diane Greene, former CEO of Google Cloud, as an OpenAI board candidate during the November 2023 crisis. He responded “strong, strong no” in texts with Sam Altman and ultimately endorsed the board slate that enabled Altman's

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview “I'm very proud of the fact that we took the risk when no one else was willing to sponsor this fledgling lab,” says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, referring to OpenAI, and “start all the innovation that the industry has today.”

• @mtslive @mtslive on x

  LIVE TRIAL UPDATE: Satya Nadella testified that Elon Musk never contacted him to raise objections to Microsoft's 2019 OpenAI partnership, the 2020 GPT-3 license, or the 2023 investment, despite the two having each other's phone numbers.

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Satya Nadella says when he met Elon Musk in 2015, he knew that Elon was concerned about AI safety and didn't want “AI being cornered by one company.”

• @lorak Lora Kolodny on bluesky

  updates here: www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/m... we listen so you don't have to...  [embedded post]

• @rachelmetz Rachel Metz on x

  i've been eagle-eyed for openai founder stake details in the musk/altman trial, which have long been a mystery. today we learned that @ilyasut's stake is worth about $7B, up from $5B last november. (last week we learned @gdb's stake is worth about $30B. https://www.bloomberg.com/…

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Ilya Sutskever and the rest of the OpenAI board briefly fired Sam Altman as CEO in 2023. “This kind of environment, where the executives [don't] exactly have the correct information, makes the environment not conducive to attaining any difficult, grand goal,” such as …

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  google offered ilya sutskever $6 million a year to stay at google instead of leaving to found openai, which he said was a “staggering amount of money” at the time (and i would agree with that) now sutskever is worth multiple billions on paper due to OAI equity

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  now OpenAI scoring some points with sutskever, who says he wasnt confident they vetted all the points about sam's management

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  sutskever does not seem like a witness that OpenAI side loves (Musk side is questioning him now) notes that the superalignment team was dissolved and that safety was was “the most important work for the long term” musk counsel wants to establish OAI is not serious about safety

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  ilya called his involvement in firing altman a “hail mary” b/c he feared the destruction of the company

• @zeffmax Max Zeff on x

  Ilya Sutskever explaining why OpenAI has a for-profit, under oath in a federal court: “if there's no funding, there's no big computer.” in the running for quote of the year

• @ceodonovan Caroline O'Donovan on x

  Sutskever is explaining why OpenAI had to evolve. “If there is no funding, there is no big computer. You don't need the biggest computer, but you need a big enough computer. If you don't have a big enough computer, it was not going to work.”

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever takes the stand in a light blue shirt, with an intense, unblinking gaze. “We discussed lots of outlandish ideas very often,” he says, recalling his conversations with Elon Musk at OpenAI in its early days.

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  🚨BREAKING: Ilya just confirmed under oath what he saw: Sam lying. And he confirmed that he thought it was appropriate to fire Altman for it. And that he had been concerned for about Sam for a long time. 100% confirming what I had been saying since the week of the firing.

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  the OpenAI and Microsoft partnership is so old that Satya Nadella used to sign his emails to Sam Altman with “sent from my Windows Phone” 😭 [image]