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On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec and Sean O’Kane break down what’s at stake in the courtroom
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Key facts
- Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy
- By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “nonprofit for the benefit of humanity” mission Musk signed up to fund
- Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come
Summary
Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “nonprofit for the benefit of humanity” mission Musk signed up to fund. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec and Sean O’Kane break down what’s at stake in the courtroom and what to watch for as Altman and others take the stand, plus deals, defense tech, and what Big Tech’s earnings week revealed about the limits of the AI spending era. Why cloud was the winner of earnings week, and what AWS, Google, and Microsoft’s numbers say about where enterprise AI spending is landing. The scholarship app founder taking Sallie Mae to court after they acquired his startup…and began selling its student data to ad networks and universities. BMW i Ventures’ new $300 million fund with its sights set on AI.