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Musk vs. Altman: Tech titans face off in court |
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's fight against OpenAI C Sam Altman kicked off Monday, as the years-long feud between the two tech titans comes to a head at a trial over the ChatGPT maker’s corporate structure.
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Musk, who helped found OpenAI in 2015 before leaving and later launching his own AI company, has long appeared at odds with Altman, with the two often publicly clashing over social media.
The tech billionaire ratcheted up the dispute in 2024 by suing over OpenAI’s alleged shift away from its founding mission.
The trial will pit one tech leader against another in a legal battle that could have consequences for the rapidly changing and competitive landscape of AI. Jury selection began Monday in Oakland, Calif.
Musk and Altman founded OpenAI as a nonprofit in 2015 with former Stripe executive Greg Brockman, computer scientist Ilya Sutskever and others. The Tesla CEO joined forces with Altman and the others to launch the company as he voiced concerns about AI safety.
At the time, OpenAI maintained it wanted to advance AI in the way that is “most likely to benefit humanity as a whole,” arguing that its freedom from financial obligations allowed them to focus on a “positive human impact.”
But by late 2017, the founders realized much more capital would be needed to develop AI in the ways they hoped, and they moved to create a for-profit entity, according to OpenAI.
Musk sued Altman and OpenAI in August 2024, alleging that OpenAI, Altman and Brockman manipulated the billionaire into co-founding and financially backing the venture before abandoning its original nonprofit mission.
The four-week trial will bring Altman and Musk to the stand to testify, with each tech leader seemingly looking forward to putting the other on the spot.
From documents to depositions to text messages and diary entries, the case is also giving the public a rare glimpse inside the inner workings of Silicon Valley and the handful of technology moguls that run it.
Read more in a full report at TheHill.com
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Prosecutors say suspect in missing students’ killings asked ChatGPT about disposing of a body
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The suspect in the killings of two University of South Florida doctoral students from Bangladesh had asked ChatGPT what would happen if a human body was put in a garbage bag and thrown in a dumpster, days before they went missing, according to a report filed by prosecutors over the weekend. Hisham Abugharbieh, 26, also asked the artificial intelligence chatbot whether the vehicle identification number on …
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Google workers urge CEO to reject classified AI work with Pentagon
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Hundreds of employees at Google are pressing the company’s CEO to reject any deal with the Pentagon to use the company’s artificial intelligence in classified settings, warning of the same risks as Anthropic before it was banned in military work earlier this year. The letter, signed by more than 600 employees at Google DeepMind and Cloud, comes nearly two months after Anthropic was dropped from the Department of …
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Leavitt dismisses ‘crazy nonsense’ suggesting WHCA dinner shooting was staged
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt brushed aside conspiracy theories that spread across social media over the weekend suggesting a shooting outside the annual White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner over the weekend was staged. “It’s very important to us that we get the truth and the facts about this case and any case out there as quickly as possible, to dispel some of that crazy nonsense …
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Supreme Court grapples with use of ‘geofence warrants’ by law enforcement
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The Supreme Court dove into a digital age issue on Monday as it grappled with how to apply constitutional protections against unreasonable searches to cellphone location data. Across two hours of arguments, the justices questioned whether the government violated a man’s Fourth Amendment rights when it used a geofence warrant during a bank robbery investigation to identify him. The tool compels tech companies to disclose …
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Disneyland guests can opt out of facial recognition at park entrances
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(KTLA) – Guests visiting a Disneyland Resort in recent months may have noticed new facial recognition technology at the entrance — though they do not have to use the system if they choose not to, according to the company guidelines. Disney says the technology is designed to streamline guest entry. The system captures an image of their face and compares it to the image taken when the ticket or pass was first used. Both …
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