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Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
”It’s not in my neurons,” Zilis says, instead of “I don’t remember.”

She is asked about texting Musk about the Microsoft deal with OpenAI — that the structure was not maximum profit and Microsoft was not in control. She looks at the evidence, and says she sees it there but... “it’s not in my neurons, it’s not in my brain, but I see it.” Okay.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
OpenAI is teaming up with other companies to improve supercomputer networking for AI training.

OpenAI says it partnered with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA on a protocol called Multipath Reliable Connection, or MRC, which “improves GPU networking performance and resilience in large training clusters.” The full spec is available through the Open Compute Project.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
43 percent of Americans blame data centers as a major reason for rising power bills.

That’s according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Similar numbers of both Republicans and Democrats also cite data centers, which are quickly becoming a bipartisan issue, as a major reason for higher costs.

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Sarah Eddy, an attorney representing OpenAI, got sarcastic with Zilis.

Zilis said she now recalled certain messages that she had said she didn’t recall in her deposition, saying that at this point she’d reviewed documents numerous times. Eddy said, “Your long-lost memories have since been recovered.”

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Shivon Zilis brainstormed possible scenarios for AI.

Three were Tesla AI. One was OpenAI as a B-corp subsidiary of Tesla. One was Altman as anchor for TeslaAI. But my favorite? “Find a way to get Demis. Seriously…. Demis really does fanboy hard and I don’t think he’s immoral… just amoral. If he hung around E perhaps it would force him to think about humanity more.” Hassabis is really haunting these guys.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Anthropic is programming Claude to “dream.”

The AI startup says “dreaming” will allow Claude to review previous sessions to “find patterns and help agents self-improve.” This feature, which is rolling out in research preview, is supposed to help AI agents identify frequent mistakes, spot tasks they might converge on, and understand a team’s preferences.

Image: Anthropic
Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Musk offered Sam Altman a board seat at Tesla...

as part of his push to increase Tesla’s AI presence. “Those who want to work on large scale AI research don’t currently think of Tesla, and Elon wants to change that by announcing his intention to create a world-class AI lab,” Zilis wrote in 2017.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Shivon’s emails aren’t great for Musk.

We are seeing more details about Zilis advocating for Musk’s plan to wrap OpenAI into Tesla. “Tesla solves the funding issue immediately… Tesla at least has option to bury,” reads one email from Zilis. “They haven’t internalized the advantages to burying this in Tesla for stealth advantage,” reads another.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
The big sticking point for Brockman and Sutskever was control.

They didn’t want Musk — or anyone — to have control over OpenAI. “You and I can argue that’s stupid all we want but they are holding firm on it,” Zilis says in an email to Jared Birchall in September 2017.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Anthropic’s Claude usage limits are getting a boost after compute deals with SpaceX and others.

Anthropic is doubling five-hour rate limits for many Claude Code users, removing Claude Code’s peak hours limit reduction, and significantly increasing API rate limits for Claude Opus models, starting today.

It credits the capacity to a new deal with SpaceX “to use all of the compute capacity at their Colossus 1 data center” in Memphis, noting recent announcements with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Sam Altman loves exclamation marks.

That’s what I’ve learned from his emails. Me too, Sam!

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Zilis’ past emails mentioned in court proceedings include her referencing a potential “conversion to for-profit” for OpenAI.

A separate ideation email to Altman lays out certain options for changes to OpenAI’s structure, including one option of rolling all of OpenAI into a B-corp, or a for-profit company with a public mission, and another option of having both an OpenAI C-corp and a nonprofit.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
This is getting interesting.

Zilis’ answers on the stand are often slightly different from the ones she gave in her deposition. We’ve now had two videos played in the courtroom. She’s also being represented by Musk’s lawyers.

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Zilis sent Altman a text message of support after his 2023 ouster.

The message, according to exhibits read aloud in court proceedings, said, “I just wanted to say I hope you are [OK]. I have no idea what’s going on but … I care about you as a person first and foremost. Sending all of my positive vibes your way.”