Elizabeth Lopatto
YGR is now reading aloud the instructions to the jury.
I will spare you. This should go on for 20-30 minutes, she tells us.
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Elizabeth Lopatto
The monitor has left the courtroom.
First there was a dongle. Then there was an attempt to move it. YGR took the opportunity to chew out Musk’s team for not consulting OpenAI about the monitor. There appeared to be no way for OpenAI to access the monitor and so it has been carried out. I am sitting next to the reporter from Wired and we are trying not to die of laughter.
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Elizabeth Lopatto
We are now having a fight about a new, large monitor that has appeared on the Musk table.
OpenAI is concerned it will obscure the view of the defendants, and also that Musk’s team has refused to share it so they can it for their case as well. YGR says Musk’s team can use it if OpenAI’s team can use it, but it does need to be moved. “I wish you would have said something yesterday” about the monitor, she says to Musk’s team.
Elizabeth Lopatto
“They didn’t give us page numbers, your honor.”
YGR is on the bench, and we are going through assorted issues before the jurors come in. It seems that YGR got page numbers on a set of demonstratives from Musk’s team and OpenAI’s team did not. “I would suggest you not use this,” YGR says of the slide at issue. Good morning!
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AI cybersecurity updates for MDASH, Mythos, and GPT-5.5.
On Wednesday, the AISI, which evaluates AI models for the British government, said both Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 showed progress well above previous trends on cybersecurity testing. Separately, XBOW released data suggesting “frontier models have taken a major step forward in vulnerability discovery.”
Meanwhile, Microsoft said its multi-model agentic setup, MDASH, was used to discover 16 CVEs in this week’s Patch Tuesday updates and is the leader on the CyberGym security evaluation framework.
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Musk left the country with President Trump despite a judge’s orders.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the judge presiding over Musk v. Altman, had told Musk when he left the stand that he was not excused from the trial and that he was still under “recall status,” meaning he should stay nearby and ready to testify. But he’s currently in Beijing…
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Elizabeth Lopatto
Microsoft and OpenAI rest.
There is no rebuttal case from Musk’s team. We will get closing statements tomorrow.
Elizabeth Lopatto
In the most boring expert testimony yet, Louis Dudney, a forensic accountant, testified about how those funds were spent.
It was on “functional expsenses,” ie, salaries, compute, etc. The cross is just arguing about the methodology of accounting for commingled money in the donated accounts. I can’t believe we are having a methodology dispute about this. I may die.
Elizabeth Lopatto
The shade we are getting in here is incredible.
John Coates noted that he’s worked for a lot of law firms as an expert witness, including Quinn Emanuel, Musk’s primary firm — and not the one trying the case today. He is excused. The judge is now huddling in sidebar with the primary lawyers for the case, and an animated discussion is taking place.
Elizabeth Lopatto
The cross is focusing on Coates’ pay.
Also, he apparently has worked as an expert witness on a few Twitter cases, including the one where Musk tried to get out of buying Twitter. Incidentally, OpenAI’s lawyers are also the ones who made Musk buy Twitter. Is that deliberate shade? Who can say.
Elizabeth Lopatto
John Coates, OpenAI’s expert witness, is running a demolition derby on Musk’s expert witness.
Some highlights:
- (while looking at a chart that the plaintiffs showed the jury) I paraphrase but: I don’t know how he thought his slide was a fair representation of anything, much less reality
- “If he’s saying [the nonprofit] would own more of the for-profit if they hadn’t taken outside investment, that’s true, but then the pie would have been significantly smaller.” Coates would prefer 30 percent of a $200 billion than “a much larger share of a much smaller pie.”
- The nonprofit has “benefitted enormously” from the for-profit “so I don’t understand his argument.”
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This week in the big AI data center buildout.
AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:
- Politico: A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure
- Wired: xAI adds 19 new gas turbines despite ongoing lawsuit
- Portland’s KGW: Oregon data centers now have to pay full costs of expanding the power grid to meet their needs
- The Texas Tribune: Texas county pauses data center construction in rural areas for a year