WWDC protesters want Apple to ban Elon Musk’s apps
…Outside the visitors center at Apple’s Cupertino campus, protesters have put up a large sign saying “Apple is powered by child sexual abuse” and asking incoming CEO John Ternus, “What will…
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Musk vs. Altman is here, and it’s going to get messy
…Questions about Elon’s “rhino ket” use won’t make it into the trial… but it’s in news stories because it showed up in the docket. We got excerpts from OpenAI…
Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI
…In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead. The trial began with jury selection…
Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability
…Notably in one, an option was “switch to for profit in next couple of weeks (woah fast!).” Another email noted that a “complete non-negotiable” for Altman, Brockman, and Sutskever “is an…
Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year for access to Elon Musk’s data centers
…And Anthropic’s fees will be reduced during the capacity ramp-up this month and next. The exit clause was likely necessary based on the fast-moving nature of the AI industry…
Sony’s PS5 sales plummet amid price rises and a memory crisis
…past year, pushing the price of the regular PS5 from $499.99 all the way up to $649.99. Sony blamed “continued pressures in the global economic landscape,” for the price hikes…
The craziest part of Musk v. Altman happened while the jury was out of the room
…But I am fairly sure, given the context, that Elon Musk’s lawyers may have just fucked up big. Jared “James Brickhouse” Birchall, Musk’s finance guy and all-around fixer, took…
Microsoft doesn’t want any of Musk v. Altman
…Microsoft was an early and major funder of OpenAI’s for-profit company, it’s true. We saw internal emails about whether funding OpenAI was a good idea and how to avoid…
That UL logo is more complicated than it looks
…So in 2012, we split the two. I joined in 2019 as CEO of the for-profit with the relationships back to the not-for-profit around the standards development and…
Google’s AI architect lived rent-free in Elon Musk’s head
…I am concerned that OpenAI is not on a path to catch up. Setting it up as a non-profit might, in hindsight, have been the wrong move. Sense of urgency is…