Did you know you can’t steal a charity? Don’t worry. Elon Musk will remind you.
Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and things are already getting messy. Emails, text messages and his own tweets appear in court, and many more witnesses will come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “nonprofit for the benefit of humanity” mission that Musk wanted to fund. As Musk keeps reminding the courtroom, “You can’t steal a good cause.”
In this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec and Sean O’Kane explain what’s actually at stake in the courtroom and what to look for if Altman and others take the stand, plus deals, defense technology and what Big Tech’s earnings week revealed about the limits of the AI spending era.
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- The stock market app founder sued Sallie Mae after they acquired his startup… and started selling his student data to ad networks and universities
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