Casey Newton

Yeah.

And Elon Musk is obviously saying he is not done with fighting open AI.

His lawyer said that he would appeal the decision.

And on X, he said, quote, creating a precedent to loot charities is incredibly destructive to charitable giving in America.

Charitable giving, obviously, something that Elon Musk famously cares a lot about.

Yeah.

Do you agree with Musk that this is essentially a technicality and that there are still some substantive issues that need to go to trial here?

Yeah.

Is there any lawsuits you've been waiting to file that you should get in under the statute of limitations?

My backlog of lawsuits is so big.

All right, update number two, Meta is continuing to reshuffle and shrink its workforce.

This Wednesday, the company officially laid off 10% of its workers, roughly 8,000 people.

We talked about these rumors on the show a couple months ago in terms of their relationship to AI and the fact that they were seemingly cutting workers to sort of make space for more AI in the organization.

We knew that these layoffs were coming, but we also got a new update to the story this week, which is that Meta announced that on top of these layoffs, it is also reassigning 7,000 workers to new initiatives related to building new AI tools and apps.

Janelle Gale, Meta's head of HR, said in an internal memo that the restructuring, quote, will make us more productive and make the work more rewarding.

Yes, this is a company that specializes in corporate reorganizations and just happens to also make some popular social media apps.

Yeah, and I think we should expect like a steady drip of stories from Meta over the coming months about how bad morale is.

It does seem to be quite bad over there at the moment.

That always happens when you do these kind of major shakeups and reorgs.

And they're also doing all this like employee surveillance stuff that workers are understandably upset about.