As we covered in this morning’s Standup newsletter, a federal jury in California took less than two hours overnight to dispose of the founding theological question of the AI moment.
Namely: can you start a charity, raise USD44 million ($61.7 million) in donations on the promise that advanced AI is far too dangerous to be built for profit, and then turn the whole thing into a USD850 billion for-profit corporation?
We never really got an answer, because Elon Musk waited too long to ask.
The jury found Musk, a co-founder of OpenAI, had known for years about the conduct he was suing over, putting his 2024 claim outside the statute of limitations. The court ultimately didn’t reach the question of whether OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman gutted a charity for personal enrichment. The whole thing was too late.
