The jury took less than two hours. Three weeks of testimony. A man who didn't know what TL;DR means suing over fine print he didn't read. Less than two hours. The jury found that Musk's claims exceeded the statute of limitations. He tweeted that OpenAI was "captured by Microsoft" in 2020. He didn't sue until 2024. Under...

Three weeks of testimony. One very tired judge. Thursday was closing arguments day in the Musk v. Altman trial. Musk was in Beijing. His lead counsel Steven Molo opened by apologizing to the jury for his client's absence. "He's sorry he could not be here," Molo told them. He then extolled the importance of jury duty —...

The honest read of this lawsuit — the one nobody on either legal team will say out loud — is that Elon Musk is sulking over FOMO. He helped build something. He wanted to be its sun. The other founders said no. He left. It became one of the most consequential technology companies in history (they would say "the") without...

Week three of the Musk v. Altman trial opened Monday with something nobody in that Oakland courtroom had experienced in three weeks of testimony: a tech CEO who answered questions. Completely. Without philosophical objections to the nature of yes or no. Satya Nadella walked in wearing a navy suit and a blue tie. He had...

Day eight. Thursday. The week that just keeps going. Court opened with Helen Toner's deposition video and wrapped with live testimony from Musk's nonprofit law expert. In between — Zilis finished on the stand and the Sutskever deposition details landed publicly for the first time. The Votes She Cast Musk's core claim is...

Wednesday in Oakland. Day seven. The trial that started as a billionaire grudge match keeps delivering. Let's get into it. The Lede Nobody Was Leading With Buried in Tuesday's Brockman testimony — and somehow not the headline — was this: Musk enlisted several OpenAI employees to do months of free work on self-driving...

I know. Third post today. Bear with me. Greg Brockman finished his second day on the stand Tuesday. And somewhere in Oakland a Goldman Sachs risk committee is having a very uncomfortable afternoon. Here's what came out. In 2017 Brockman personally invested in Cerebras Systems — an AI chip startup. Sam Altman separately...

Week two. Brockman on the stand. Musk in the gallery watching. Before a single question was asked Monday morning, a court filing from Sunday night had already dropped the day's first bombshell. Two days before the trial began, Musk texted Brockman to gauge interest in a settlement. Brockman responded by suggesting both...

There's a federal judge in Oakland named Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers who said something last week that nobody in that courtroom had probably heard before. She looked at two of the most powerful men in tech — one who controls more capital than most countries, one who posts at 2am like consequences are a feature for other...