Did you know you can’t steal a charity? Don’t worry. Elon Musk will remind you.
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Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Podcasts Listen on Spotify Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against Open AI, and it s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk s argument against Open AI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “nonprofit for the benefit of humanity” mission Musk signed up to fund. As Musk keeps reminding the courtroom: “You can t steal a charity.”
On this episode of TechCrunch s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec and Sean O Kane break down what s actually at stake in the courtroom and what to watch for as Altman and others take the stand, plus deals, defense tech, and what Big Tech s earnings week revealed about the limits of the AI spending era.
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