Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 19, 2026, 4:12 AM UTC

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This is not correct. jongjong is correct that a nonprofit does not have owners in the sense that a for-profit has owners. Nonprofits are dedicated to their mission, and are run by a board of directors. You cannot have a % ownership in a nonprofit because its resources must be used exclusively to carry out its mission. You could have a % control in its decision making process.

They're correct about the equity ownership bit, but not in their argument that there's an implicit public claim of control.

Post by hcurtiss » Tue, May 19, 2026, 4:29 AM UTC

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> Does anyone seriously still believe this? I do. It’s not his singular focus. But he continues to personally invest himself in pushing the boundaries of human spacefaring capability. That goal seems more meaningful to him that it does to e.g. Bezos, who seems to have a rocket company to look cool.

I know there's a risk when Musk's name comes up that everyone takes "all against" or "all for" approach - very polarising figure. But I see a lot of that announcement, and the others someone else pointed to as his "aspirational, but ultimately never going to happen" goals - whether he believes the claims are achievable, or not, he says these things to energise people to working/paying for him to try It costs him litt…

Post by antonvs » Tue, May 19, 2026, 4:39 AM UTC

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> It's a lot less dumb if you can drastically reduce the launch costs AND drastically increase the launch mass and size. If the Starship thing works out, he will have achieved that. No, it's still dumb. No matter how cheap they manage to make SpaceX launches realistically, there's really no situation that a space datacenter makes any sense compared to putting datacenters in, for example, Antarctica. If they built in…

It gets you out of the reach of the suffocating regulatory states here on Earth.

Post by Nevermark » Tue, May 19, 2026, 4:40 AM UTC

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Elon Musk promises a lot of things that never come to fruition.

Have we colonized Mars yet? Asking for a friend.

Post by fastball » Tue, May 19, 2026, 4:54 AM UTC

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Are they replacing their onboard chips with NVidia chips? AFAICT Tesla has increased investment in their own chip ambitions. Dojo specifically being cut is a massive failure if you are motivated to believe that, but otherwise it looks more like a subset of custom chip work that didn't pay off and the company has appropriately cut their losses. The onboard "AI2/3/4/5" chips are clearly the bigger investment (they can…

We are just a few months away from the 10 year anniversary of Elon's coast-to-coast full self driving promise made in 2016. If your idea of Elon Musks AI success is to lean on THAT side of Tesla... well, good luck with that.