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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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