The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial

Attorneys delivered closing arguments in the Musk v. altman trial on Thursday in a final attempt to convince a judge and jury that their respective clients, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are the most well-intentioned, truth-telling stewards of OpenAI’s founding nonprofit mission. A judgment could be delivered as soon as next week, ending a decade-long … Read more

OpenAI Brings Its Ass to Court

Wednesday’s episode of the Musk v. altman The trial kicked off on Wednesday with a unique proposition: OpenAI wanted to bring its ass into the courtroom, and lay it bare before the jury. It’s a good thing lady justice wears that blindfold. A lawyer for Sam Altman’s AI behemoth, Bradley Wilson, approached US district judge … Read more

xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit

xAI has added 19 natural gas turbines to its second data center campus in Southhaven, Mississippi, over the past two months, according to internal emails seen by WIRED. The additions come as xAI is fighting a lawsuit from the NAACP and several environmental groups, alleging that the company is violating the Clean Air Act by … Read more

‘I Actually Thought He Was Going to Hit Me,’ OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Says of Elon Musk

In August 2017, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever gathered at Elon Musk’s self-described “haunted mansion,” a 47-acre, $23 million estate in Hillsborough, south of San Francisco, to discuss the future of OpenAI. Actor Amber Heard, Musk’s then-girlfriend, had served the group whiskey and then dashed off with a friend, Brockman, OpenAI’s cofounder and president, testified … Read more

Greg Brockman Defends $30B OpenAI Stake: ‘Blood, Sweat, and Tears’

two days ago the Musk v. Altman trial began, Elon Musk asked OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman about reaching a settlement. When Brockman suggested both sides drop their claims, Musk responded, “By the end of this week, you and Sam [Altman] will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so be … Read more

Elon Musk Seemingly Admits xAI Has Used OpenAI’s Models to Train Its Own

While testifying on Thursday in federal court, Elon Musk seemed to indicate that his AI lab may have used OpenAI’s models to train xAI’s own. He touched upon the topic while sitting on the witness stand answering cross-examination questions from an OpenAI attorney amid his ongoing legal battle against the ChatGPT-maker. This is the exchange, … Read more

Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins

Elon Musk is boosting a post on investigation into Sam Altman’s allegedly deceptive behavior, WIRED has confirmed. The move comes just as Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman heads to a jury trial in a federal courtroom on Monday morning. People scrolling A pop-up on the post on X’s mobile app says it was boosted … Read more

The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman will head to trial this month in an Oakland, California, federal courtroom, where nine jurors will settle a years-long dispute between the cofounders of OpenAI over the group’s founding mission. While spats between Silicon Valley’s most influential billionaires are notable in their own rite, former OpenAI employees and nonprofits … Read more

RFK Jr. Says Americans Need More Protein. His Grok-Powered Food Website Disagrees

A 30-second Super Bowl ad featuring boxing legend Mike Tyson and paid for by the nonprofit MAHA Center encourages viewers to avoid processed foods and visit realfood.gov. The government website, which Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promotingprovides resources on the administration’s new dietary guidelinesreleased in January, and encourages people to … Read more

Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company

Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company SpaceX is acquiring his AI startup xAI, the centibillionaire announced on Monday. In a blog postMusk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial solutions,” and Silicon Valley will soon need to build data centers in space to power its AI … Read more