Jeff Bezos on America's spending and taxes:
"We don't have a revenue problem in this country. We already have the most progressive tax system in the world. The Top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all taxes. The bottom 50% pay just 3%. We have a spending problem."
🚨 NEW COURT FILING — OpenAI's own solicitation emails to Musk
For three days, OpenAI's lawyer Savitt has been framing Musk as a founding donor who broke his pledges.
Today Musk's lawyers filed the receipts to show what actually happened:
Altman's October 2015 email to Elon Musk:
> "As discussed I think starting with a $100MM commitment (and leaving the time unspecified) is the way to go..."
Then the number:
> "Can you donate $30MM over the next 5 years?"
Musk responded:
> "Let's discuss governance. This is critical. I don't want to fund something that goes in what turns out to be the wrong direction."
Altman to Musk, a few months later:
> "Can you do $20MM a year for the each of the next 3 years?"
Musk delivered $38 million plus the office rent.
Two and a half years after Musk left the OpenAI board, the asks resumed.
July 22, 2020, OpenAI's CFO to Musk's family office:
>"It would greatly help the nonprofit org if you're willing to assist with covering... landlord passthroughs and security costs."
Musk agreed. He funded OpenAI's rent.
Under California law, when a charity solicits and accepts donations, a fiduciary relationship forms between the person who asked and the person who gave.
A legal duty to use the money for the declared charitable purpose.
Altman and the CFO solicited. Musk donated. OpenAI accepted.
Then converted the charity into an $852 billion company.
The trust was breached.
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BREAKING 🚨 Elon Musk just reposted a video of Katie Miller surprising Laura Ingraham by saying:
"I just want to point out that what we've spent on the war so far is less than what Tim Walz has lost from Somali fraud in Minnesota”
IMAGINE THAT