Chris Stokel-Walker
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Why is this done now?
The week of the make it feel by-election rather than six months ago, rather than six months time.
Why is it done now?
It's a vote winner.
No, I don't disagree, but I also think that to claim that this is, you know, bravely saving the kids on a Monday before a by-election rather than a Monday after a by-election or a Monday two weeks or three weeks or six months before a by-election, like, come on, this is...
It was a bust up, I think is the one word that we can use to describe it, Susan.
Of course, part of the key points of this case hinges on how exactly these two titanic egos ended up splitting up.
And, you know, there was...
A difference of opinion, I suppose, about the future direction of OpenAI, the company that Elon Musk and Sam Altman came together to found back in 2015.
A vision that was different for the future in terms of that, because, of course, OpenAI, the clue was in the name, was founded earlier.
as an open company meant to develop ai for the benefit of all of humanity elon musk believed that meant that it didn't need to make a profit or try to make a profit and obviously sam altman and based on some of the stuff that we are hearing others within the company felt like there might have been a different approach that could be taken where they could capitalize on that um
But yeah, in terms of all of this, I think the one thing that we know is that it was incredibly messy.
And that is why we've ended up in court in the last week or so talking about this and having it literally relitigated.
Well, Elon Musk, of course, runs a platform now ex-formally Twitter.
That is a short form content platform.
It is designed to have 280 characters or less for each individual post unless you fork out.
And the judge didn't seem to be enormously convinced of the case.
when it was being discussed in the trial about the idea that actually Elon Musk couldn't even reach a four-page memo.
But, you know, there are reasons why we have executive summaries on documents.