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Musk Takes the Stand Against OpenAI, Claims Altman Stole a Charity
Day three of the trial reveals a fight not about AI safety but about who controls the most valuable organization in Silicon Valley.
The AGI Ownership Fight
The Musk v. Altman trial starts today. The legal question is whether OpenAI betrayed its non-profit mission. The real question is who gets to own the most consequential technology ever built.
The Federal Government Just Declared War on State AI Regulation, and Colorado Folded Before the Battle Started
The DOJ joined xAI's lawsuit against Colorado's AI antidiscrimination law the same afternoon Colorado's AG agreed to stop enforcing it. No court ordered the freeze. The legislature has 16 days to pass a replacement. The AI Litigation Task Force is just getting started.
The Trial That Could Unwind a Trillion-Dollar Company
Jury selection begins in Musk v. Altman, a case where the most damaging evidence is OpenAI's own co-founder calling his nonprofit commitment 'a lie.'
The Shadow Docket Catches Up
A divided appeals court sent the DOGE-Social Security data case back to district court. In the 89 pages of competing opinions, a Supreme Court justice's original warning about unfettered data access looks more prescient than when she wrote it.
The Boycott That Became a Federal Case
The FTC is in settlement talks with major ad agencies over whether they illegally coordinated to withhold ad spending from X. Whether or not the underlying conduct was illegal, the investigation itself tells you who has power at the FTC right now.
The Chip Factory That Has To Be Real
Musk's Terafab now has Intel as a partner, a $20-25B price tag, and a goal of 1 terawatt of computing per year. TSMC just had its best quarter ever. Whether TeraFab can actually close the gap is a question nobody in the announcement has answered.
xAI Is Arguing That Math Is Speech. If It Wins, AI Becomes Constitutionally Unregulateable.
The claim that a language model's probability distributions are protected expression under the First Amendment would create a constitutional black box around every AI system in America.
Saudi Arabia Killed The Line and Built a Data Center Instead
MBS suspended his $500 billion linear city after 1.4% completion, pivoted $23 billion to AI infrastructure, and made Elon Musk's Grok the kingdom's national AI layer. The geopolitical bet underneath this is enormous.