Musk loses OpenAI lawsuit

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Elon Musk Loses Lawsuit Against Sam Altman and OpenAI

Jury rules Musk filed his claims too late, removing a major legal threat to OpenAI’s restructuring

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft after a California jury unanimously found that his claims were filed after the legal deadline had passed.

Key Points:

• Unanimous verdict: Nine jurors ruled that Musk’s claims were barred by the statute of limitations, meaning they were filed too late.

• Core accusation: Musk had accused OpenAI and its leaders of “stealing a charity” by shifting OpenAI away from its original nonprofit structure toward a for-profit model.

• OpenAI’s defence worked: OpenAI argued that any alleged harm to Musk happened before the legal deadline for filing his claims, and the jury agreed.

• Restructuring threat removed: The verdict means one major risk to OpenAI’s corporate structure is now off the table as the company moves toward a possible IPO.

• The damages debate ended: Musk’s side had argued OpenAI and Microsoft gained tens of billions unfairly, but the verdict made that damages discussion irrelevant.

• Musk plans appeal: Musk said he will appeal to the Ninth Circuit, arguing the case still raises serious concerns about charities being converted for private gain.

Why It Matters:
This is a major legal win for OpenAI. The case had the potential to disrupt its structure, leadership, and IPO plans, but the jury’s decision keeps OpenAI’s current path intact. Still, Musk’s planned appeal means the fight may not be fully over yet.

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OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

Former OpenAI co-founder and Tesla AI leader will build a team focused on accelerating pretraining research

Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI’s original co-founders and former head of AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic. His new role will focus on using Claude to accelerate AI pretraining research, a step that could push Anthropic closer to more automated AI research workflows.

Key Points:

• Major talent move: Karpathy announced on X that he has joined Anthropic and is returning to frontier LLM research and development.

• New research focus: Anthropic’s Head of Pretraining, Nicholas Joseph, said Karpathy will build a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research itself.

• Recursive improvement angle: The role points toward a broader AI goal: using AI systems to help improve future AI systems with less human involvement.

• Strong AI background: Karpathy was a founding member of OpenAI, led Tesla’s computer vision work for Autopilot, and previously returned to OpenAI to work on midtraining and synthetic data.

• Education work may pause: Karpathy said he remains passionate about education but plans to resume that work later, suggesting projects like Eureka Labs may slow while he focuses on Anthropic.

• Open-source question: His move raises questions about what happens to his recent open AI education and research projects, especially as Anthropic mainly ships proprietary models and tools.

Why It Matters:
This is a major win for Anthropic. Karpathy’s new role shows Claude is becoming more than a user tool. It may help Anthropic speed up future AI research and model building.

AI Highlights of the Week

• Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Turns Chatbots Into AI Agents
  Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, a faster model built for coding, research, and autonomous agent workflows.

  The model can run multi-hour tasks, power agent-first tools like Antigravity, and shift Gemini from answering questions to actually planning and building work.

• xAI fails to pay employees for their tax data
  xAI reportedly asked employees to share personal tax returns to train Grok, promising $420 per submission.

  Two months later, Bloomberg says no payments have been made, raising questions about sensitive tax data, privacy, and internal controls.

• Apple’s Revamped Siri to Auto-Delete Chats
  Apple’s reworked Siri app is reportedly coming with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 with auto-deleting chats by default.

  Users may choose to keep chats for 30 days, one year, or forever, while Apple positions the new Siri as a more privacy-first AI assistant.

• Alexa+ Can Now Turn Any Topic Into a Podcast
  Amazon launched Alexa Podcasts, a new Alexa+ feature that creates podcast-style episodes on almost any topic in minutes.

  Users just ask a question, adjust the direction, and Alexa generates AI-hosted audio using sources from over 200 news publications.

• Samsung Races to Stop Its Biggest-Ever Strike
  Samsung is in last-minute talks with its labour union to prevent a planned 18-day strike by more than 45,000 workers.

  The strike could hit memory chip production during a global shortage, affecting AI data centres, smartphones, laptops, and South Korea’s exports.

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