Brian Barrett

Here's senior writer Perez-Devey, who was there yesterday when Musk took the stand.

So much of this is, all the spin that's going on around the trail has been fascinating to me too.

Zoe, you mentioned that Elon boosted that story on Sam Altman, which is, he also just controls the algorithm.

He could also just like make it go into people's feeds.

But we've had more than that too.

It got to the point where a judge had to tell them to knock off their posts because they've both been posting so much about each other that they've been admonished for their social media activity.

Because of the mess.

They don't want to be involved in the mess.

No, I feel like Microsoft has been, you know, Microsoft obviously very close relationship with OpenAI, although they, as of this week, they have a more open relationship where OpenAI can now use other people's clouds.

Very Berkeley.

So I think Microsoft just wants to be as far away from all of this as it possibly can.

You know, the fact that Saatchi is going to have to testify is something that they can't avoid.

But I think this is just something, you know, Microsoft increasingly is placing its own bets in AI.

It's increasingly sort of separating, not totally separating, but like their relationship is not quite so intertwined with open AI.

And I think rightly so, right?

I think it's clear, especially given, as we said, how much

restructuring how much turnaround, how much mess, again, I keep using that word that OpenAI has gone through.

You maybe don't want to put all of your eggs in that basket.

So I don't know.

I think we're going to see Microsoft continuing to try to place as much distance as they can from this as possible while still retaining as much financial upside as they can.