🍭 Five Billionaires, One Witness Stand ⚖️

Good morning. Sam Altman took the stand yesterday.

A lawyer mentioned “OpenAI’s original mission” and five billionaires simultaneously looked at the floor.

Let’s dive in 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Musk vs. OpenAI trial gets messy

• Google stops an AI-powered cyber-attack

• OpenAI launches a $4B deployment company

OpenAI vs. Musk
⚖️ Altman Finally Takes The Stand

The Bite:

Sam Altman testified Tuesday in the Musk vs. OpenAI trial in Oakland, called by OpenAI's defense team.

He followed Monday's appearances by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, co-founder Ilya Sutskever, and board chairman Bret Taylor.

Closing arguments are expected Thursday, with jury deliberations to follow.

Musk is seeking the removal of Altman and Brockman, the return of profits to the nonprofit, and up to $134B in damages.

Snacks:

• Sutskever testified he wrote a 2023 memo describing Altman's "consistent pattern of lying", then signed a letter supporting his reinstatement anyway, calling it "a Hail Mary"

• Nadella revealed a 2022 internal email comparing the OpenAI deal to IBM's PC partnership. He didn't want Microsoft to "become the next IBM"

• A Brad Smith memo projected a $92B return on Microsoft's $13B cumulative investment, with a 20% annual escalator starting in 2025

• Sutskever disclosed his stake in OpenAI's for-profit arm is worth roughly $7B

• Altman told the jury he almost didn't co-found OpenAI because he thought Google was too far ahead to compete with

• Taylor testified the board unanimously rejected Musk's bid to acquire OpenAI last year

Why it Bites:

The trial was supposed to be about whether OpenAI betrayed a charitable mission.

Three weeks in, it's turned into a live-action org chart of who got rich and how.

Sutskever holds $7B in equity from a company he tried to blow up.
Nadella feared becoming IBM but stayed anyway because the alternative was worse.

A projected $92B return on $13B doesn't sound like charity math.

And Altman, the man accused of stealing a nonprofit, almost didn't show up because he thought Google had already won.

Every witness has made the same argument without saying it:

The nonprofit structure was a vehicle, not a destination.

If the jury buys that, Musk loses the case but wins the point.
OpenAI's IPO can proceed, but with a trial transcript that reads like a cap table confession.

The next fundraising deck will have to explain why a company born as a public trust…

…needed five billionaires to testify that this is where it was always headed.

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🧠 You Need to Know

⚖️ Altman Takes The Stand In Musk v. OpenAI Trial
→ OpenAI's CEO began testimony Tuesday in Oakland as the defense case enters its final stretch, with closing arguments and jury deliberations expected by Thursday.

🚨 Google Thwarts AI-Driven Mass Exploitation Attempt
→ Google's threat intelligence group said it disrupted a criminal hacking operation that used an AI model to discover and weaponize a zero-day vulnerability for a planned large-scale attack.

🏢 OpenAI Launches $4B Deployment Company, Acquires Tomoro
→ A new majority-owned venture backed by TPG, Bain Capital, Brookfield, and 16 other partners will embed forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises, with ~150 staff joining from consulting firm Tomoro.

💽 Cerebras Raises IPO Price To $150–$160 Per Share
→ The AI chipmaker bumped its offering range from $115–$125 after 20x oversubscription, potentially raising $4.8B at a $49B fully diluted valuation ahead of May 14 pricing.

🛒 Alibaba Integrates Qwen AI With Taobao For Agentic Shopping
→ The Qwen app will access Taobao and Tmall's full 4B-product catalog for end-to-end conversational commerce, including virtual try-ons, price tracking, and Alipay checkout.