The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning

The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept returning to one question: Can we trust the people responsible for AI? All of this is playing out as SpaceX focuses on what could be one of the biggest IPOs in American history, with an entire generation of founders already gone from the Musk empire.

In this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane discuss the closing of the process and what Elon Musk’s founders’ growing ecosystem looks like on the ground, and the other deals that caught our attention this week.

Listen to the full episode and hear more about:

• The Anthropic report on why AI agents tried to blackmail their developers, and the debate over whether science fiction stories influenced their behavior.

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