Elon Musk has spent much of this week on the witness stand in federal court as part of his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, over the company’s decision to ditch its nonprofit status. That means he’s been talking a lot and, for once, has someone there to immediately call him on his shit. The result gives us a much different picture of Musk’s companies than the rosy image that he usually paints. For instance, Musk has repeatedly claimed that his companies will achieve artificial general intelligence, essentially a human-level ability to reason and operate autonomously. He claimed the breakthrough would come in 2025 (it didn’t), then posited that his company, xAI, could achieve it before the end of 2026 (it won’t). He also said last month that Tesla would be “one of the companies to make AGI” through its efforts to develop its humanoid robot Optimus, last seen falling over while being teleoperated by a human . It turns out the singularity might not actually be right around the corner.…