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Musk vs. Altman: The Feud of a New Elite Bidding for Power | naked capitalism
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Musk vs. Altman: The Feud of a New Elite Bidding for Power | naked capitalism

naked capitalism·Curro Jimenez·28 days ago
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The Musk vs. OpenAI trial for an alleged breach of contract is actually an exposé of how the Silicon Valley elite is a tight network of associates, even within rival companies. The recent Pentagon agreement with seven of those companies shows how this elite is penetrating the state apparatus and transforming it. In the case, the plaintiffs are Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis, who is the mother of four of Musk’s children whom they are co-parenting. But of course, she’s not a plaintiff because of that, but because she was a board member of OpenAI at the time. The defendants are Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, respectively CEO and President of OpenAI and cofounders with Musk. Altman is gay and married to his husband; Brockman married his wife on a workday at the OpenAI office in a ceremony officiated by Ilya Sutskever, who is also a cofounder and was the chief scientist.…

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