@krassenstein I just wished all of you could step back and see how ridiculous you sound when you whine about absolutely everything @realDonaldTrump does. It’s the most childish and pitiful display of “little bitch boy” energy I’ve ever witnessed.
@krassenstein He bombs the hell out of them, you guys cry like little butches. He shows restraint and tries to negotiate, you guys cry like little bitches. If former presidents would have handled this correctly it would have never come to this. You are a joke without a punchline. Just a joke!
In 19 days, a jury in Oakland is going to decide whether the entire legal foundation of the AI industry is built on fraud.
Everyone thinks the Musk vs Altman lawsuit is a billionaire grudge match.
Two egos, one grudge, a $150 billion damages number designed for headlines.
Easy to dismiss. Easy to scroll past.
That's exactly what Altman wants you to think.
Because what's actually on trial on April 27 is something much BIGGER than Elon's hurt feelings...
A jury is going to decide whether you can legally take billions of dollars in nonprofit donations, use them to build the most valuable technology in human history, and then quietly convert that nonprofit into a for-profit company worth $850 billion.
If the answer is no, the entire AI industry has a problem.
Because OpenAI is not the only company that did this:
Anthropic was founded by OpenAI defectors using the same nonprofit-first mission language.
xAI pitches itself as building AI "for humanity."
Every frontier lab has used the moral cover of "we're doing this for the good of the world" to attract talent, capital, and regulatory goodwill they would have never gotten otherwise.
An Elon win doesn't just touch OpenAI. It creates a legal precedent that every AI company built on a nonprofit or public benefit promise becomes vulnerable to shareholder and donor clawback suits.
That's why this case matters. And that's why Altman is panicking.
Just look at what he did this week:
Elon filed a motion demanding the court remove Altman and Brockman from their roles and FORCE OpenAI to return to its nonprofit origins.
Then he amended the suit to say if he wins the $150 billion, all of it goes to OpenAI's charity arm. Not him. Zero dollars to Elon personally.
That amendment was surgical. It stripped Altman of his entire public defense.
He can no longer claim this is about Elon's ego or Elon's bank account. Elon is now legally on record saying he just wants the mission back.
OpenAI's response was to panic-write a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general asking them to investigate Elon for "anti-competitive behavior." Their strategy chief publicly accused Elon of coordinating attacks with Mark Zuckerberg.
They called the lawsuit "harassment driven by ego and jealousy."
That's NOT the response of a company that thinks it's going to win.
Real companies with real defenses don't ask the government to silence the person suing them 3 weeks before trial. They let the evidence speak.
OpenAI is scrambling because they know what's in discovery.
Elon's team has been building this case for two years. Emails, board minutes, internal conversations about the conversion.
The kind of paper trail that juries understand and executives can't explain away.
And the timing couldn't be worse...
OpenAI is trying to IPO at $852 billion. They just raised $122 billion. Microsoft has $135 billion of exposure to them.
A jury verdict that even partially sides with Elon in late April or May would crater the entire IPO runway and send shockwaves through every major AI investor on Earth.
This is why Altman spent the last 2 weeks doing press tours and policy blueprints and "super intelligence agendas" aimed at Washington. He's trying to REFRAME himself as the responsible statesman of AI right before a jury decides if he's a con artist.
Most people will watch this trial start and think it's celebrity drama.
The smart money is watching it and realizing that the legal foundation of the AI boom is about to be tested in court for the first time EVER.
And if that foundation cracks, everything built on top of it is at risk.
@EshaAA33 WTF are you doing here. It’s not your flag or anthem so maybe you should be elsewhere. No need to use that pesky freedom you have as well. Last time I checked the president is chosen by all the citizens in a country. So if you are here and a citizen he is your president! 🤣
@nypost@elonmusk@tim_cook looks like it’s time for a “X Phone”. I would change in a heartbeat. I have had apple products for decades but am so tired of this shit. I just want fair reporting. Don’t promote either side. Boost the news and stop boosting your fucking agenda on either side.
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Schumer: "What they're trying to do here is the same thing that was done in the South for decades, to prevent people of color from voting."
Woman responds: "This is where my righteous anger pops up, because I know what he's saying is a lie. I live in the South. I've been living in the South my whole life, on the Gulf Coast. I go to vote every single time there's an election, and guess what? I show my ID. I write my signature. They check to make sure who I am. I go vote. No problems.
Nobody asking me any questions. Nobody making me count the jelly beans in the jar.
And quit lumping us in 'people of color' category. We're Black Americans, and we are citizens, and nobody is taking away our right to vote.
What they are doing is they are using Black people, going back in the past, provoking emotional manipulation, because they know if they say Jim Crow or slavery, Black people gonna be like, 'Oh my God, he's right, they coming against us.' This has nothing to do with you, Black people. Wake up!'
People of color' he talking about is illegal migrants. They don't have IDs. That's their new voting base.
But [stop] letting these people use you. I've been having an ID since I was 15 years old. I'm 50 years old. Every Black person I know has an ID.
You need an ID to drive. You need an ID to go into a club. You need an ID to fly on a plane. You need an ID to go into another country. You need an ID to buy liquor. You need an ID to buy cigarettes.
I don't know any Black person without an ID. Even the poorest of the poor Black people have an ID. Even the homeless man got an ID.
Black people, y'all can keep letting these liberals play in your face, but Malcolm X warned you about these people. They're using you.This is about getting illegal migrants to vote. They don't have an ID, so they don't want any questions whenever they walk there. They are the Democratic Party's new voting base."