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I see why Molo is leaning on the spoken testimony.
Look, this case is full of liars. It just is! The biggest problem for his side is the contemporaneous written evidence.
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theguardian.com
‘A consistent pattern of lying’: Musk v OpenAI trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman
The trial has exposed even more details about OpenAI’s fractious corporate past than previously documented
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theverge.com
We are now getting cross-examination from Musk’s lawyer.
She seems confused by a CTO not knowing what revenue had been generated. Scott noted he was not the chief revenue officer. He seemed amused.
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Microsoft and OpenAI rest.
There is no rebuttal case from Musk’s team. We will get closing statements tomorrow.
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Molo has begun his closing statement for Elon Musk, who is in China.
“He’s sorry he could not be here,” Molo says. He’s thumping on how important jury service is, which is never a good sign in a closing statement.
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Molo is suggesting that Greg Brockman’s conduct makes him untrustworthy.
“17 times during his testimony I had to ask him to answer the question,” Molo says. Dude, you don’t want this. If they’re considering conduct, they’re considering your client’s…
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I see why Molo is leaning on the spoken testimony.
Look, this case is full of liars. It just is! The biggest problem for his side is the contemporaneous written evidence.
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Ah we are back at the museum store funding the museum.
Molo agrees that OpenAI needed money for compute. He is annoyed that a “brainstorming session” is being cast as evidence that Musk wanted to abandon OpenAI’s non-profit mission.
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Molo calls Shivon Zilis, mother of Musk’s children, “the most even-keeled, even-tempered witness at the trial.”
I disagree! I think that’s Ilya Sutskever, frankly. Those two did the least amount of beefing on the cross-exam, it’s true. But I am against the Sutskever erasure here — not least…
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This is kind of choppy.
Molo keeps interrupting himself to restate things or say things like “remember the residuals?” It’s really important in closing to tell a straightforward, easy-to-follow story…
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We are back on the millions and billions of OpenAI equity that employees have interest in.
I am just going to break from telling you what Molo is saying to say what my personal impression was from sitting here all these weeks: Everyone was improvising. There was no…
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During our break, the jurors were out of the room, and the lawyers were beefing again.
During his speech, Molo told the jury he wasn’t asking for money. That is in fact not true — otherwise I wouldn’t be sitting through phase 2 of the trial next week. “You slipped…
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Molo is now attempting to make a case against Microsoft.
So far he’s got “they’re a for-profit corporation,” “they know Musk was a co-founder,” and “they read the announcement OpenAI existed.” This is easily the thinnest part of a very…
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Molo is done presenting Musk’s closing argument.
I do wonder how this would have played in the hands of a better lawyer. Molo’s book report did not overwhelm me with confidence in his case, particularly because a lot of his…
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Sarah Eddy is giving the closing argument for OpenAI.
She opens with a banger. Musk has said he made donations with strings attached. “Even the mother of his children can’t back his story.”
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Eddy is, wisely, leaning hard on chronology in explaining their defense.
Chronology and documents. Musk’s performance on the stand does give credence to the suggestion from Eddy that Musk “took his marbles and went home” when he couldn’t get his way.
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“I told you in my opening statement you wouldn’t hear very much from Microsoft, and you haven’t”
God bless. We are in the Microsoft closing statements. “Microsoft never found a single page of a single document” that referenced Musk’s alleged restrictions on his donations…