The craziest part of Musk v. Altman happened while the jury was out of the room
TL;DR
Musk's lawyers may have stumbled in the Musk v. Altman case. Jared "James Brickhouse" Birchall, Musk's finance guy and fixer, took the stand after Musk. Most of his testimony was routine, but at the very end something unusual happened — and it landed while the jury was out of the room. Surprises like that are rare in trials and can shift the dynamic of a case.
Nauti's Take
Upside: trials like this drag the founding deals of OpenAI into the open, which sharpens how the AI race is understood — useful for any founder watching how power and equity actually flow. Downside: the personal Musk vs.
Altman fight risks turning a substantive question into pure courtroom theater that distracts from the products both teams are shipping. Read the testimony, not the headlines.
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