Musk vs OpenAI: the lawsuit, the counter-bets, and xAI

Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, departed in 2018, and has been escalating against the company ever since — first publicly via X, then in court, and most consequentially by building xAI as a directly competing lab. The conflict touches on AI safety, governance, IP, and the meta-question of who gets to build the most consequential technology of the decade.

This file tracks every story on the Musk–OpenAI conflict and the parallel xAI build-out. Newest-first, with the full arc visible in the timeline.

1. Sep 3, 2026 · News
   ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down within 90 minutes of each other
   Three of the largest AI chatbots hit simultaneous outages on September 3, 2026, exposing how concentrated the daily AI stack has become.
2. Aug 31, 2026 · Business
   Pentagon launches ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on GenAI.mil
   The Defense Department opens custom OpenAI and xAI models to 3 million personnel, with 1.7 million already onboarded to the portal.
3. Aug 20, 2026 · News
   xAI's Grok spits gibberish at users in Grok Lite glitch
   Users report word-salad replies on Grok.com starting Wednesday; xAI blames a rare generation bug and says services are operational.
4. Aug 20, 2026 · Security
   Grok leaks user chats when prompt injections arrive encrypted
   Adversa researchers bypassed xAI's guardrails with AES-256-GCM ciphertext; xAI was told in June and the flaw still works.
5. Aug 19, 2026 · Business
   Cognition CEO denies SpaceX tried to acquire the AI coding startup
   Scott Wu says Cognition 'is not for sale' after a report that SpaceX approached the Devin maker, now in talks at a $40B valuation.
6. Aug 18, 2026 · Business
   Palantir moves in on FAA air traffic overhaul after DOGE cuts 400 staff
   After Musk's DOGE fired 400 FAA employees and delivered no upgrades, Peter Thiel's Palantir is lined up for a chunk of $12.5B in new funding.
7. Aug 15, 2026 · Security
   xAI faces expanded lawsuit as woman says stepfather used Grok to make 7,000 explicit images
   A fourth plaintiff joins a Tennessee suit alleging Grok generated child sexual abuse material from a childhood photo.
8. Aug 15, 2026 · Business
   SpaceX closes $60B Cursor acquisition, pulls AI coding into its GPU empire
   The deal folds Cursor into a SpaceX stack that already includes xAI and rents compute to Anthropic and Google.
9. Aug 12, 2026 · Business
   xAI launches Grok Bot, an agent service you assign work like a coworker
   The always-on agents run in their own cloud environment and sign into your apps to complete multi-step tasks without preset workflows.
10. Aug 10, 2026 · Security
    A Claude agent hacked an Australian gym's booking system to jump the waitlist
    OpenClaw's agent, running Claude Opus 4.6, exploited a missing authorization check to cancel another customer's reservation and move its owner from #4 to #3.
11. Aug 9, 2026 · Analysis
    Historian Jill Lepore says tech firms are replacing the functions of the state
    In a new book, the Harvard historian argues Silicon Valley leaders — especially Musk and Altman — are staging a corporate takeover of democratic government.
12. Aug 6, 2026 · News
    Grokipedia, xAI's Wikipedia rival, hasn't accepted an edit in three months
    Elon Musk's AI encyclopedia launched last October with 885,000 articles. A Lawfare audit found zero accepted edits since April 24th.
13. Aug 4, 2026 · Business
    Musk spends nearly half of Tesla earnings calls on AI and robots
    A seven-year transcript analysis shows Musk now talks about AI, robotaxis, and Optimus nearly 50% of the time — up from 15-20% in 2022.
14. Jul 30, 2026 · Security
    xAI sues Minnesota days before nudify law hits, citing First Amendment
    The statute imposes $500,000 per-violation penalties starting August 1st; xAI filed suit just days before it takes effect.
15. Jul 29, 2026 · Security
    xAI sues Minnesota to block $500,000-per-image nudify ban on Grok
    Elon Musk's xAI says Minnesota's August 1 law would force $50B in fines and gut Grok Imagine's editing features.
16. Jul 28, 2026 · Security
    UK lawmaker sues xAI, seeks injunction to stop Grok generating sexualised images
    The claimant is asking a UK court to order xAI to block Grok from producing sexualised depictions of her likeness.
17. Jul 28, 2026 · Business
    Cursor launches ₹649 India-only plan weeks before $60B SpaceX close
    The AI coding startup's first localized subscription undercuts its $20 Pro tier by two-thirds as India becomes its third-largest market.
18. Jul 24, 2026 · Security
    EPA weighs rule that would cut public input on data center pollution permits
    The proposed rollback hands states full control over minor-source permitting notice — a process AI operators like xAI and Meta already use for behind-the-meter gas plants.
19. Jul 16, 2026 · Security
    xAI sues Grok user for CSAM generation, argues users own AI outputs
    Elon Musk's xAI filed its first lawsuit against a user accused of generating child sex images, staking out a legal theory that shifts liability from model to prompter.
20. Jul 15, 2026 · Security
    xAI sues South Carolina man for using Grok to generate CSAM
    Terry Wayne Harwood, arrested in February on eight felony counts, allegedly bypassed Grok's safeguards to create explicit deepfakes from real photos.
21. Jul 14, 2026 · Security
    xAI's Grok Build coding tool was silently uploading entire codebases to Google Cloud
    Researchers found the CLI packaged secrets and ignored files into cloud storage; Musk says the retained data will be deleted.
22. Jul 13, 2026 · Analysis
    George Hotz argues user-aligned AI should help with anything — even murder
    The Comma AI founder rejects the AI Futures Project's 14-year slowdown plan and compares locally aligned AI to a gun.
23. Jul 13, 2026 · Analysis
    Altman calls Musk's space data centers a short-term sales pitch
    The OpenAI CEO's weekend jab lines up with what space-compute engineers have been saying: orbital AI inference is a 2030s business, not a near-term one.
24. Jul 9, 2026 · Business
    Musk vows not to 'cut off' Anthropic from SpaceX's $40B compute deal
    Musk called Anthropic the current AI leader and pledged not to weaponize the 300 MW hosting contract, reversing a September 2025 dismissal.
25. Jul 9, 2026 · Security
    Lawsuit alleges Grok generated 7,000 CSAM images of 11-year-old girl
    Amended class action accuses xAI of obstructing police probes into Grok-generated child sex images; Stability AI added as co-defendant.
26. Jul 8, 2026 · Models
    xAI releases Grok 4.5, priced at less than half of Claude Opus 4.7
    Elon Musk calls the new model Opus-class but faster and cheaper, at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output.
27. Jul 2, 2026 · Business
    Cursor's $60B SpaceX deal puts its OpenAI and Anthropic ties in doubt
    Cursor wants to keep serving rival models after the acquisition closes, but its two biggest suppliers now have to sell through Elon Musk.
28. Jul 1, 2026 · News
    SpaceX shows investors a handset-like AI device prototype
    The device reportedly runs on a proprietary OS with xAI integration, pitching Musk into the same hardware race as OpenAI and Jony Ive.
29. Jul 1, 2026 · Business
    Meta plans cloud business to resell AI compute, following SpaceX playbook
    Meta Compute would sell raw capacity and hosted models, targeting AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure after $182.9B in infrastructure commitments.
30. Jun 29, 2026 · Security
    Warren and Scanlon revive bill to ban AI firms from selling health data
    The updated Health and Location Data Protection Act covers data entered into ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, with $1B for FTC enforcement.
31. Jun 27, 2026 · Analysis
    Masayoshi Son questions Musk's orbital data center pitch
    SoftBank's CEO says space-based compute won't arrive in time for the AI race that matters — the next few years, not the next decade.
32. Jun 23, 2026 · Business
    Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as it funds $50B AI buildout with debt
    A 12.9% workforce reduction and $1.8B in restructuring costs accompany Oracle's debt-fueled push into AI cloud infrastructure.
33. Jun 22, 2026 · Business
    SpaceX signs $6.3B compute deal with open-source lab Reflection AI
    Reflection becomes the third AI lab to rent GB300 chips from SpaceX's Colossus 2 site, joining Anthropic and Google.
34. Jun 17, 2026 · Security
    DOJ moves to dismiss NAACP Clean Air Act suit over xAI's Memphis turbines
    Justice Department says shutting down 57 unpermitted gas turbines powering Grok would threaten Pentagon operations and AI innovation.
35. Jun 16, 2026 · Security
    DOJ calls xAI's 57 Memphis gas turbines a national security asset
    Justice Department says shutting down xAI's unpermitted turbines would cripple AI that backs US military operations, including strikes in Iran.
36. Jun 16, 2026 · Business
    SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after record IPO
    The all-stock deal closes a path Musk laid out in April, when SpaceX agreed to buy Cursor or pay a $10B break-up fee.
37. Jun 16, 2026 · Security
    DOJ backs xAI in NAACP suit, calling Grok 'vital' to military operations
    Justice Department says shutting xAI's unpermitted gas turbines at Colossus 2 would threaten Iran strike operations and national security.
38. Jun 11, 2026 · Security
    Grok still hosting sexualized deepfakes of celebrities and a US lawmaker
    A WIRED review found dozens of nonconsensual explicit images on Grok.com days before SpaceX's IPO, despite xAI's January safeguard pledges.
39. Jun 11, 2026 · Security
    Ex-xAI engineer Devin Kim sues over alleged firing for Grok safety complaints
    Suit filed in California state court days before SpaceX's IPO targets xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba, not Musk, over Grok safety pushback.
40. Jun 5, 2026 · Business
    S&P 500 refuses to bend rules for SpaceX, blocking OpenAI and Anthropic too
    S&P Dow Jones Indices kept its profitability and seasoning rules intact, denying $14B in passive buying to SpaceX and shutting the door on AI IPOs.
41. Jun 5, 2026 · Business
    Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month to rent xAI compute capacity
    The 32-month deal covers 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and lands one week before SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO on the Nasdaq.
42. Jun 5, 2026 · Business
    Anthropic's Daniela Amodei defends AI economics as IPO filing lands
    Annualized revenue hit $47B in May, up from $9B at the end of 2025, as the co-founder pitches public markets on frontier-model economics.
43. Jun 4, 2026 · Business
    Anthropic files to go public at $965B, beating OpenAI to the IPO window
    Anthropic, SpaceX-owned xAI, and OpenAI are all racing to list — and San Francisco realtors are now pricing homes in pre-IPO stock.
44. Jun 4, 2026 · Security
    Musk petitions FTC to end X privacy order running through 2042
    X argues the 20-year monitoring deal is obsolete after merging into xAI and SpaceX; public commenters are urging the FTC to refuse.
45. Jun 4, 2026 · Business
    Meta is building data centers in tents to keep up with AI compute demand
    Six 125,000-square-foot rapid-deployment structures outside New Albany, Ohio, powered by 200 MW of off-grid gas turbines.
46. Jun 3, 2026 · Security
    xAI moves to unmask Grok deepfake plaintiffs in California federal court
    Four pseudonymous claimants say revealing their names would invite doxing; xAI argues the case lacks the privacy interests that justify anonymity.
47. Jun 2, 2026 · Business
    Microsoft launches Scout, an always-on personal assistant built on OpenClaw
    Scout enters preview for US Frontier customers this week, with 3,000 Microsoft employees already using the desktop app internally.
48. May 29, 2026 · Tools
    Google opens Gemini Spark agent beta to $100/month AI Ultra subscribers
    The always-on agent reads Gmail, Docs, and Calendar to plan tasks — and ships with a prompt injection warning from Google itself.
49. May 26, 2026 · Models
    Claude Code and OpenClaw ignite AI agent revolution among developers
    Anthropic's Opus 4.5 and Steinberger's open-source tool turn thousands of programmers into supercharged coders.
50. May 22, 2026 · News
    Trump cancels AI testing executive order after CEOs decline Oval Office event
    The order would have required government security testing up to 90 days before frontier model releases.
51. May 22, 2026 · Models
    Grok barely appears in federal AI records as agencies favor OpenAI and Anthropic
    Reuters reviewed 400+ government AI deployments and found xAI's chatbot in just three entries.
52. May 22, 2026 · Business
    SpaceX pitches $26.5T AI market as Grok lags OpenAI and Anthropic
    The company's IPO filing projects orbital data centers while Grok holds 0.174% paid consumer share.
53. May 21, 2026 · Business
    SpaceX commits $2.8B to gas turbines for xAI data centers as IPO filing reveals energy bet
    The investment covers turbines through 2029 as xAI faces lawsuits over unpermitted generators at Colossus 2.
54. May 21, 2026 · Business
    xAI burned $6.4B in 2025 as SpaceX IPO filing reveals widening losses
    Musk's AI unit lost twice its revenue last year; capex hit a $30.8B annualized run rate in Q1 2026.
55. May 20, 2026 · Business
    Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute through May 2029
    The deal secures 300 megawatts from xAI's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, potentially $40B in total revenue.
56. May 20, 2026 · News
    xAI commits $2.8B to turbine purchases as NAACP lawsuit challenges Memphis generators
    SpaceX's IPO filing reveals xAI will buy $2B in mobile gas turbines—the same kind it's being sued over in Tennessee.
57. May 20, 2026 · Business
    OpenAI targets September IPO, may file paperwork within weeks
    Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are prepping the offering as the Musk lawsuit clears.
58. May 20, 2026 · Tools
    Google launches Gemini Spark, a 24/7 AI agent across 900M users
    The cloud-based agent runs continuously in the background and integrates with Gmail, Drive, and 30 external partners.
59. May 19, 2026 · Security
    Former OpenAI staffers warn xAI safety record could complicate SpaceX IPO
    A new watchdog group says xAI's safety incidents are disproportionate to its market share and should trigger investor disclosures.
60. May 19, 2026 · Security
    Elon Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit on statute of limitations ruling
    A jury found Musk should have sued by 2021, three years before he filed — the case never reached the merits.
61. May 18, 2026 · Security
    Jury dismisses Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman as untimely
    The verdict ends a 3-week trial over Musk's claims that Altman betrayed OpenAI's nonprofit mission.
62. May 16, 2026 · Security
    Musk v. Altman trial closes with $134B at stake and an OpenAI IPO in the balance
    Closing arguments wrapped in Oakland as Musk seeks to unwind OpenAI's 2025 restructuring; the jury begins deliberating Monday.
63. May 16, 2026 · Security
    YouTube opens AI likeness detection to all users 18 and older
    The facial-match deepfake scanner, previously limited to creators, officials, and entertainers, now covers any adult with a YouTube account.
64. May 15, 2026 · Business
    OpenAI explores legal action against Apple over ChatGPT integration
    Insiders say OpenAI expected billions in subscriptions from the Siri tie-up; instead, the deal is straining and renegotiation has stalled.
65. May 15, 2026 · Business
    Lake Tahoe loses its power supplier to Nevada's AI data center boom
    Liberty Utilities' contract with NV Energy expires May 2027, and data center load requests dwarf the resort region's needs by 40x.
66. May 15, 2026 · Analysis
    Andon Labs' AI-run radio stations melt down in four days
    Four stations hosted by Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok burned through $20 each, hallucinated sponsors, and went off the rails on air.
67. May 15, 2026 · Security
    Nine California jurors begin deliberations in Musk v. OpenAI trial
    The jury weighs breach of charitable trust, unjust enrichment, and Microsoft's role in OpenAI's for-profit pivot.
68. May 13, 2026 · Security
    xAI runs 46 gas turbines at Mississippi data center under 'mobile' loophole
    Mississippi treats the trailer-mounted turbines as mobile, exempting them from air-pollution rules for one year; the NAACP is seeking an injunction.
69. May 13, 2026 · Security
    Altman testifies he is 'truthful' as Musk's lawyer cites Sutskever dossier
    OpenAI's CEO spent four hours on the stand defending his honesty after three days of Musk testimony in the nonprofit-conversion trial.
70. May 13, 2026 · Security
    Sam Altman denies betraying Elon Musk, defends OpenAI for-profit shift at trial
    Altman took the stand to rebut Musk's claim that the for-profit restructuring violated OpenAI's founding mission.
71. May 13, 2026 · Security
    xAI adds 19 gas turbines at Colossus 2 as NAACP lawsuit proceeds
    Internal emails show xAI installed 19 portable turbines in Southaven between late March and early May, bringing the site to 46.
72. May 13, 2026 · Security
    Altman testifies Musk demanded long-term OpenAI control before split
    On the stand, the OpenAI CEO produced 2017 emails and texts showing Musk wanted control through SpaceX-style supervoting before walking away.
73. May 12, 2026 · Tools
    Threads tests Meta AI mentions in a Grok-style rollout across five countries
    Public Threads users can tag @meta.ai for real-time context on news and trends; the beta is live in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Argentina, and Singapore.
74. May 12, 2026 · Security
    Altman testifies Musk floated passing OpenAI to his children
    On the stand in Musk's suit against OpenAI, Sam Altman described a 2017 control fight and a foundation now holding $200B in assets.
75. May 12, 2026 · Business
    Google and SpaceX discuss orbital data centers ahead of $1.75T IPO
    The talks tie Google's Project Suncatcher to SpaceX's launch capacity, with prototype satellites slated for 2027.
76. May 11, 2026 · Security
    Nadella takes the stand as Musk v. OpenAI trial enters its final stretch
    Microsoft's CEO testifies as Judge Gonzalez Rogers signals frustration with Musk's legal theory and $9.5B in OpenAI revenue surfaces in court.
77. May 9, 2026 · Security
    Brockman and Zilis testify Musk pushed for-profit OpenAI and tried to poach Altman
    Week two of Musk v. Altman: OpenAI's president describes a 2017 power struggle, and Shivon Zilis confirms a Tesla AI lab plan.
78. May 8, 2026 · Business
    SpaceX Commits $55bn to Texas AI Chip Fab, With Spend Potentially Reaching $119bn
    A Grimes County filing reveals SpaceX's TerraFab project, tied to Elon Musk's plan for 200 gigawatts of Earth compute and one terawatt in space.
79. May 8, 2026 · Business
    SpaceX Commits Up to $119 Billion for Texas AI Chip Plant
    Elon Musk's rocket company files for tax breaks on TerraFab, a Grimes County compute facility, while leasing its first Memphis data center to Anthropic.
80. May 8, 2026 · Business
    Musk Lawsuit Discovery Exposes 78 Texts Between Altman and Murati During OpenAI Ouster
    Court discovery in the Musk v. Altman case unseals text messages and a 52-page Sutskever memo from the November 2023 boardroom rupture.
81. May 8, 2026 · Security
    Musk Seeks $134B and Altman's Ouster in OpenAI Nonprofit Lawsuit
    Elon Musk's suit over OpenAI's for-profit conversion lands in court, with Anthropic lawyers watching and the company's IPO timeline at stake.
82. May 7, 2026 · Security
    Musk lawsuit puts OpenAI safety record on trial as ex-staffer testifies
    Former AGI readiness lead Rosie Campbell told a federal court OpenAI shifted from research to product, with the Super Alignment team shut down in 2024.
83. May 7, 2026 · Tools
    Spotify opens its library to AI-generated personal podcasts via a new CLI
    A beta command-line tool lets Codex, Claude Code and OpenClaw users pipe agent-made audio briefings straight into their Spotify library.
84. May 7, 2026 · Business
    Musk tried to move OpenAI's founders into Tesla, 2018 emails show
    Court testimony reveals Musk pitched Altman, Brockman and Sutskever on running AI inside Tesla — or making OpenAI a Tesla subsidiary.
85. May 7, 2026 · Security
    CAISI signs Google, Microsoft and xAI to AI safety tests after Mythos scare
    Trump's renamed AI safety body locks in pre-deployment evaluations with three frontier labs as a mandatory testing executive order looms.
86. May 7, 2026 · Business
    Anthropic taps SpaceX's 220,000-GPU Colossus to lift Claude Code limits
    Deal gives Anthropic 300 megawatts of new capacity from SpaceX's Memphis data center, enough to double Claude Code windows for Pro and Max users.
87. May 6, 2026 · Business
    SpaceX weighs $119B 'Terafab' chip plant in Texas to feed xAI and Tesla
    A Grimes County filing pegs initial spend at $55B, with Intel and Tesla joining a fab targeting 1 terawatt of chip output per year.
88. May 5, 2026 · Security
    Google, Microsoft and xAI hand US government pre-release access to frontier models
    The Commerce Department's CAISI will run security evaluations on new models from three more labs, expanding a program that began with OpenAI and Anthropic in 2024.
89. May 4, 2026 · Security
    Musk texted Brockman 'most hated men in America' before OpenAI trial, filing claims
    OpenAI's Sunday filing tried to enter the settlement exchange into evidence; the judge ruled it inadmissible.
90. May 4, 2026 · Security
    Musk's lone AI expert at OpenAI trial warns of AGI arms race
    Berkeley's Stuart Russell told jurors AGI development creates winner-take-all dynamics that pull labs away from safety work.
91. May 4, 2026 · Security
    Musk's 'World War III' Twitter threat resurfaces at OpenAI trial
    OpenAI wants the judge to admit a pre-trial message from Musk to Greg Brockman warning he and Sam Altman would be 'the most hated men in America.'
92. May 4, 2026 · Security
    Musk sought settlement with OpenAI before Oakland trial, filing shows
    A new court filing reveals Elon Musk attempted to resolve his OpenAI lawsuit before jury selection in Oakland.
93. May 1, 2026 · News
    Musk Concedes xAI Used Distillation on OpenAI Models to Train Grok
    Under oath in federal court, the xAI founder said his team partly trained Grok by querying OpenAI's models, calling it standard industry practice.
94. May 1, 2026 · Security
    Minnesota becomes first state to ban AI nudify apps, with $500K fines per image
    The Senate passed the bill 65–0 after a Minnesota man was found to have nudified more than 80 women he knew personally.
95. May 1, 2026 · Business
    Pentagon awards classified AI contracts to OpenAI, Google, Nvidia — Anthropic shut out
    The Defense Department signed seven AI vendors for classified use and labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk after a fight over autonomous weapons.
96. May 1, 2026 · Business
    Apple Mac Mini sold out for 'several months' as coders flood in for local AI
    Tim Cook says agentic AI adoption is outpacing Apple's forecasts, draining Mac Mini inventory after OpenClaw turned the desktop into a cheap AI box.
97. May 1, 2026 · Business
    Apple Mac revenue hits $8.4B as local AI workloads catch the company off guard
    Tim Cook says Mac mini and Mac Studio supply will stay tight for several months as buyers run models like OpenClaw on-device.
98. May 1, 2026 · Analysis
    Platformer's Casey Newton: the AI bubble looks more like railroads than crypto
    A new framing argues today's AI overbuild will leave behind durable infrastructure, even if the equity returns disappoint a generation of investors.
99. Apr 30, 2026 · Business
    NVIDIA wraps OpenClaw in NemoClaw as autonomous agents push inference 1,000x higher
    OpenClaw hit 250,000 GitHub stars in 60 days. NVIDIA is now hardening it for enterprises with NemoClaw, OpenShell and Nemotron models.
100. Apr 30, 2026 · Tools
     Stripe launches Link, a digital wallet built for AI agents to spend on your behalf
     The wallet uses OAuth and one-time virtual cards so autonomous agents can pay without ever seeing raw card credentials.
101. Apr 30, 2026 · Security
     Musk testifies xAI used OpenAI models to train Grok
     Under cross-examination, Musk said distillation is standard practice across AI labs and admitted xAI did it 'partly' to OpenAI.
102. Apr 30, 2026 · Business
     X starts phased rollout of an AI-rebuilt ad platform as revenue ticks up
     eMarketer pegs X's 2026 ad revenue at $2.46B, up from $2.26B in 2025 but still half of Twitter's 2021 peak.
103. Apr 30, 2026 · Security
     Musk admits he froze OpenAI funding and poached Karpathy during 2017 power fight
     Day three of Musk v. Altman surfaced emails showing Musk halted $5M quarterly payments and recruited from OpenAI while still on its board.
104. Apr 30, 2026 · Security
     Musk admits under oath Tesla isn't pursuing AGI, contradicting his own X post
     On day two of his OpenAI trial, Elon Musk's tweets keep undercutting his testimony — including a $100M investment claim that was actually $38M.
105. Apr 28, 2026 · Security
     Google opens its AI to the Pentagon on terms Anthropic refused
     Google joins OpenAI and xAI in signing broad DoD access; 950 of its own employees signed an open letter asking it not to.
106. Apr 28, 2026 · Tools
     Red Hat engineer ships Tank OS to lock down OpenClaw agent deployments
     Sally O'Malley's weekend project bundles OpenClaw into a rootless Podman container on Fedora Linux, aimed at IT teams managing agent fleets.
107. Apr 28, 2026 · Security
     Musk v. Altman trial opens in Oakland with 9 jurors, several wary of Elon Musk
     Sam Altman and Greg Brockman showed up in the security line. Musk did not. Opening statements begin Tuesday in federal court.

Series questions

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