Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and things are already starting to get messy. Emails, text messages and his own tweets were revealed in court, with more witnesses expected. What are Mr. Musk’s claims about OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “non-profit for the benefit of humanity” mission that Musk signed on to fund. Musk repeatedly reminded the court that “you can’t steal charity.”
In this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast, Kirsten Kolosek and Sean O’Kane discuss what’s really at stake in court, what to watch as Altman and others take the stand, and what big tech’s earnings week reveals about deals, defense technology, and the limits of the age of AI spending.
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