… Musk responded simply, “Yes.” Around the time Musk lost the power struggle, emails show that he held discussions with executives at Tesla and Neuralink, his brain-computer interface company, about hiring OpenAI employees. …
… About one out of every five questions in a new conversation thread triggered an ad at the bottom of the chatbot’s output. …
… This abrupt hiring, firing, stopping, starting, abandonment, and rapid depletion of projects, was, I would learn, commonplace. …
… He could hardly have cut a stronger contrast with the Palo Alto crowd: His service dress blues came with gold buttons, gold threads round his sleeves, and bright ribbons. …
… He helped us make sure that we threaded the needle in the right way because non-competes are very hard to uphold, apparently. …
… Redditors, including May, followed the thread with skepticism. …