Christina Criddle

This is the first time I've heard him talk at this length in person.

So it definitely was a moment.

And basically the trial centers on Musk's allegation that he was deceived into donating roughly 38 million to OpenAI under the premise that it would remain a nonprofit.

And today he called it stealing a charity.

Yesterday, his lawyer kind of likened it to having a museum with a gift shop where you wouldn't have a museum gift shop sell Picassos and pocket the profit.

That's the analogy that he used.

And then today we saw Elon in cross-examination where OpenAI's lawyer was trying to get him to answer very narrow yes or no questions.

And Musk was basically refusing to do so, finding ways out of it, asking for clarification and really pushing back.

I mean, at one point he said...

Your questions are not simple.

They're designed to trick me, essentially.

And I need to give longer answers because a simple answer would be misleading the jury.

And he even used the example of if you ask the question, have you stopped beating your wife?

I can't just answer yes or no.

And so they were really having this back and forth.

I can't really speak to what the jury thinks, but he definitely was able to get his point across in his cross examination without really giving too much away or giving any howlers that made me think, oh, he maybe shouldn't have said that.

So he really made his point very clearly and then didn't really answer the questions where he could have been on the hook for something, at least in my view.

Yeah, exactly.

So we still have to hear from lots more people in this trial.

Musk was the first person to take the stand.