OpenAI is asking Meta to produce evidence related to any coordinated plans with Elon Musk and xAI to acquire or invest in the ChatGPT-maker. The request was made public in a brief filed Thursday in Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI. Lawyers representing OpenAI said they subpoenaed Meta in June for documents related to its potential involvement in Musk’s unsolicited, …
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More than two years after leaving the company, some former Twitter employees may finally receive their severance pay. Elon Musk’s X is tentatively settling a class action lawsuit filed by workers who were let go soon after he purchased Twitter. This news comes in the form of a court filing where both parties asked the court to delay an upcoming …
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Elon Musk arrives at Donald Trump’s inauguration as President in January. Getty Images A federal judge in San Francisco just greenlit a class action lawsuit by Tesla owners to sue the carmaker for exaggerated claims by CEO Elon Musk and the company about the self-driving capability of its electric vehicles that stretch all the way back to 2016. It’s the …
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SpaceX officials have privately boasted to investors that a tax benefit signed into law by President Donald Trump means it may never have to pay federal income taxes, The New York Times reports. Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, allowing corporations to roll over their heavy losses, known as a carryback, indefinitely to skirt paying some …
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The New York Times got its mitts on some confidential documents showing that Elon Musk’s privately held SpaceX had likely paid little or no income tax since being founded in 2002. And the company is even secretly telling investors it may never have to pay any. It’s all part of the joy of how the American tax system props up …
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The OpenAI CEO is challenging his former friend, one company at a time. Twitter, Tesla and even Neuralink are in his sights. Over the last year, the feud between Silicon Valley heavyweights Sam Altman and Elon Musk has devolved into personal attacks, social media swipes, and lawsuits. Musk calls his foe Scam Altman and Swindly Sam. Altman has said that …
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the Kennedy Center on August 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump announced the first nominees of the annual Kennedy Center Honors since taking control of the center’s board earlier this year. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to streamline federal regulation governing …
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Apple has rejected Elon Musk’s accusations that its App Store is biased against AI apps that compete with OpenAI. “We feature thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria,” the BBC quoted Apple as saying. The response comes after Musk threatened to sue Apple via xAI, claiming the iPhone maker was “behaving in …
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Sam Altman is in the process of co-founding a new brain-to-computer interface startup called Merge Labs and raising funds for it with the capital possibly coming largely from OpenAI’s ventures team, unnamed sources told the Financial Times. The startup is expected to be valued at $850 million. A source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch that talks are still early …
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