Zoe Schiffer

But the jury's kind of decisions and what it thinks about what's been said so far will weigh heavily into that decision.

And so...

You know, I don't know what the jury thinks so far, but in the court of public opinion, which I think is a really important aspect of this trial and the reason that Musk is moving forward with it in a lot of ways, I think it's a bit more complicated.

I do think Sam Altman really has a reputation as being untrustworthy, and that reputation has only been cemented over the course of this trial.

I think one interesting thing that I was thinking about yesterday when I was watching testimony was that Sam Altman and OpenAI has really been trying to position Elon Musk as this like power hungry figure who was trying to get control of a frontier AI lab and then bitterly filed a lawsuit when he was unable to retain that control.

Right.

But my takeaway from everything I've seen so far is that Elon Musk and Sam Altman are actually very similar in a lot of ways.

Sam Altman has this great quote about Elon Musk that he gave the New Yorker years ago where he said, Elon Musk desperately wants to save the world, but only if he can be the one to save it.

I don't know, Sam Altman.

I kind of get similar feelings about him.

Like, I do think he has these really lofty visions of how he thinks AI can improve the lives of many people and change the world in a positive way.

I think it's really important to him that he is deeply involved in that effort.

Yeah, Will Knight published in AI Lab, his AI newsletter this week, a little piece.

The whole bottom of his newsletter is new research that's coming out.

And it's actually really, really interesting.

But one thing that caught my eye this week was that he talked about what we know so far about regulatory capture in the AI industry and how AI companies are really involved in shaping and slowing regulations, which is something that I think is on one level obvious, but now we're actually seeing data to back it up.

It's so much money.

And we're not even talking about Anthropic at this point, which borderline valuation could be even higher than open AIs on any given day.

I personally loved on Wednesday when OpenAI brought a small statue of a donkey's ass to court and tried to include that in the official record.

The judge said, I don't want it.