OpenAI

Opening statements tomorrow.

YGR denied those challenges. “The reality is that people don’t like him,” she said. “Many people don’t like him. but that doesn’t mean that Americans nevertheless can’t have integrity for the judicial process.”

While the lawyers ask questions of prospective jurors, apparently there are Happenings outside the courtroom.

We’ll get another set of 20 shortly. So far, five people have disliked Musk enough to bring it up, but all but one say they can be fair. Lots of people have used AI, with varying opinions on it.

Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has introduced herself to prospective jurors; so have all the assorted lawyers. We are looking for nine people. This case should be done by May 21st, at which point it goes to the jury.

I’m in the courtroom — and jury selection will begin shortly. Sam Altman is here, but I haven’t seen Elon Musk.

The federal judge overseeing the case granted Musk’s request on Friday, which he says will “streamline the case” and keep things focused on “ensuring that OpenAI adheres to its public charitable mission.” Two claims will proceed to trial this week.

Nathan Calvin, from advocacy group Encode, received an interview request from Michael Chen, a reporter at The Wire by Acutus. But it turns out Chen probably doesn’t exist, and most of the “reporters” at the suspiciously pro-AI Acutus appear to be bots. It’s just the tip of a financial trail that appears to lead to OpenAI.

The suspect in a school shooting at the Canadian town described violent scenarios to ChatGPT, but even though OpenAI banned the account, it did not alert law enforcement about the person.

OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is its “smartest and most intuitive” model yet. That’s probably true, and yet…

Anthropic’s private cybersecurity-focused model is being used by a handful of large companies, including Nvidia, Apple, and JPMorgan Chase, to plug high-stakes vulnerabilities in their systems, creating a lot of buzz. On the podcast, I unpacked the model, the competition, and the stakes.

When hackers got access to an account belonging to the maintainer of Axios, they inserted a script that granted remote access to users’ Windows, macOS, and Linux devices. This malicious version potentially compromised ChatGPT’s macOS apps, so OpenAI is issuing an update and new certificates to mitigate any risks.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published a post on his personal blog addressing today’s situation where a person allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at his house and an “incendiary article about me a few days ago,” which I am guessing refers to the big New Yorker article.

Tubi just announced that it has launched its own app inside ChatGPT:

The blueprint — created with the help of NCMEC and the Attorney General Alliance — is aimed at “modernizing laws” to address AI-generated CSAM, improving the reporting process, and building systems that interrupt exploitation attempts.

As Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI’s Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi, just think of all the extra admin it’s created for the people in charge of construction.