Elon Musk has reignited his legal battle with OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, by filing a new lawsuit on August 5 in California. This follows Musk's earlier decision to drop a similar case in June.
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI with Altman in 2015, initially sued the organization in February, accusing it of abandoning its nonprofit roots. He temporarily withdrew his lawsuit after OpenAI released a blog post that included some of his private communications.
In his latest legal filing, Musk accuses Altman of manipulating him into supporting OpenAI under the guise of it being a nonprofit. Musk claims he invested heavily in terms of time, money, and recruitment efforts, only for Altman to later pivot the organization towards profit-making.
OpenAI’s March blog post included emails suggesting Musk was aware of, and even supported, this shift. It stated that both parties recognized the necessity of a for-profit model to secure the resources needed for developing advanced AI.
Despite this, Musk has since become a critic of OpenAI, condemning it as a “closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft” in a 2023 post on his social media platform, X.
Meanwhile, X is reportedly under investigation by Irish regulators due to allegations that user data might have been used to train Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok.
According to crypto analytics firm Santiment, the decentralized oracle network Chainlink (LINK) leads all ERC-20 projects in development activity.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for the upcoming presidential election in November, recently spoke at a Wall Street fundraiser where she addressed the cryptocurrency industry for the first time.
Donors from Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood played a key role in helping Vice President Kamala Harris’ fundraising efforts in August, giving Democrats a financial advantage over Donald Trump on the cusp of the run-off election.
Pro-XRP attorney John Deaton, who has secured the Republican nomination for a Massachusetts Senate seat, will face off against Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren in a highly anticipated debate on October 15, 2024.