Liz Lopatto

Hey, David.

How's it going?

Well, you know, I mean, it's I think we've talked about like my cycles of Elon theory where we have like periods of like peak Elon activity and then it sort of drops off and like he's Elon again.

Like this is some peak Elon activity.

We have this idiotic trial.

And then after that, there's an IPO.

Like I wouldn't have put those two things together personally, but I'm not Elon Musk.

Oh, this is a shit show.

Okay.

This is a shit show for sure.

So there is sort of like this outside possibility.

I should note, there's an outside possibility that OpenAI loses the case and has to disgorge a bunch of money, which that potentially does affect the entire AI ecosystem because, you know, OpenAI is tied to

Virtually every other AI company.

They've made deals with basically everyone.

So if OpenAI has to disgorge all this money, that's money they may not have to pay, let's say, Oracle, you know, on their obligations.

So that is a possibility.

But, you know, many of the lawyers I spoke to for this story were like...

If I were taking this case on contingency, I would not take it.

If this were on contingency, I would not get paid.

This is happening because Elon Musk has the money to pay someone to argue a losing case.