🍭 The $134B Breakup Goes To Trial ⚖️

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Let’s dive in 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Musk vs. Altman goes full courtroom drama

• Google drops $40B on Anthropic

• Meta loads up on AI chips (not GPUs?)

Musk vs. Altman
➗ OpenAI Divorce Hits Court

The Bite:

Elon Musk and Sam Altman's lawsuit went to trial in Oakland federal court.

A nine-person jury was seated under Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, with opening arguments set for today.

Musk alleges Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman deceived him into funding OpenAI as a nonprofit, then pivoted it into a for-profit behind his back.

He's seeking up to $134 billion in damages + the removal of Altman and Brockman from their roles and a reversal of the company's corporate restructuring.

OpenAI, now valued at $852 billion, calls the suit baseless and motivated by competitive jealousy tied to Musk's own xAI.

Snacks:

• Musk originally donated $38M to help found OpenAI as a nonprofit in 2015

• Brockman's 2017 diary entry surfaced in court: "This is the only chance we have to get out of Elon's orbit"

• The trial is split into two phases: liability first, then remedies

• Ilya Sutskever, Mira Murati, and Satya Nadella are all expected to testify

• Musk was held liable last month by a separate jury for defrauding investors during his $44B Twitter takeover

• SpaceX plans to IPO this summer; OpenAI is targeting its own public offering by year-end

Why it Bites:

This is a $134 billion custody battle over a company neither party runs the way they originally promised.

Musk says he was conned into funding a charity that became a money machine.

OpenAI says Musk wanted to be CEO, got rejected, then launched a competitor.
Both versions can be true at the same time, and that's the uncomfortable part.

The diary entries and internal docs read less like corporate governance and more like a group chat nobody thought would leak:

• Brockman journaling about escaping Musk's orbit.

• Altman privately reassuring Musk the nonprofit was safe while planning otherwise.

• Musk proposing to absorb OpenAI into Tesla.

Everyone was angling. Nobody was the altruist they claimed to be.

The real question is not who lied.

But whether the nonprofit structure ever meant what any of them said it did, or whether "for the benefit of humanity…"

…was always just the pitch deck for the most expensive breakup in tech history.

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🧠 You Need to Know

⚡ Meta Signs Deal For Millions Of AWS Graviton Chips
→ Meta will use millions of Amazon's ARM-based Graviton CPUs to power AI agent workloads, as agentic compute shifts demand from GPUs to general-purpose processors.

💸 Google Commits Up To $40B In Anthropic
→ Google confirmed a $10B upfront investment in Anthropic at a $350B valuation, with up to $30B more tied to milestones. The largest single AI investment to date.

🌍 WPP Plugs Google Earth AI Into Its Ad Platform
→ The world's largest ad holding company integrated Google's geospatial AI into WPP Open, using satellite imagery, traffic, and weather data to automate hyper-local media buying.

🧬 OpenAI Launches Bio Bug Bounty For GPT-5.5
→ OpenAI is offering $25,000 to the first researcher who finds a universal jailbreak clearing its five-question biological safety challenge on GPT-5.5.

⚖️ Musk v. Altman Trial Kicks Off In Oakland
→ A nine-person jury was seated Monday in the federal case over OpenAI's nonprofit origins, with opening arguments set for Tuesday and up to $134B in claimed damages at stake.