🤖 OpenAI’s Legal Showdown Against Musk, Explained.

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• ⚖️OpenAI’s Legal Showdown Against Musk, Explained.

• 🌲Stanford’s 2025 AI Index Report

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

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⚖️OpenAI’s Legal Showdown Against Musk, Explained.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just countersued Tech Billionaire Elon Musk for “unlawful and unfair action” against OpenAI by weaponizing a Lawsuit and a Preliminary injunction to halt the company’s growth.

Key Details:

• When OpenAI raised a $6.6 billion Series E funding round at a $157 billion valuation in 2024, investors required OpenAI to restructure into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) that’s no longer controlled by a Non-Profit Board of Directors (BofD).

• In response, Musk filed a Lawsuit against Altman for transforming OpenAI from an open-source, non-profit initiative into a closed-source, maximum-profit company.

• Musk’s Lawsuit emphasized that an open-source, non-profit initiative has never “gone from a tax-exempt charity to a $157 billion market-paralyzing gorgon in just eight years.”

• Then, Musk filed a Preliminary Injunction against OpenAI, which aimed to prevent Altman from taking any specific actions to restructure OpenAI until a final judgment was made on Musk’s Lawsuit.

• Now, OpenAI is countersuing Musk, claiming that his Lawsuit and Preliminary injunction “are just bad-faith tactics to slow down OpenAI and seize control of the leading AI innovations for his personal benefit.”

Why It’s Important:

• “You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in five years, and he’d be king,” wrote Y-Combinator Founder Paul Graham when describing Altman.

• This legal showdown raises fundamental ethical questions about the balance between non-profit initiatives, open-source principles, profit motives, and the desire for power over how AI impacts society.

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AI TRENDS

🌲Stanford’s 2025 AI Index Report

Stanford University (“Stanford”) released their 2025 AI Index Report, which provides unbiased, rigorously vetted, and globally sourced data on the latest AI developments.

Key Details:

• Here’re the top three takeaways:

  1. AI is increasingly embedded in everyday life. In 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved 223 AI-enabled medical devices. Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing service now provides over 200,000 paid trips per week across Los Angeles, CA, Phoenix, AZ, and San Francisco, CA.

  2. AI is fueling record-high private investments. In 2024, Generative AI (GenAI) attracted $33.9 billion globally in private investments, an 18.7% increase from 2023, with 78% of businesses using GenAI in 2024, up 55% from the year before.

  3. China is closing in on the U.S.’s AI dominance. In 2024, U.S.-based AI Firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind produced 40 notable advanced AI models. However, China-based AI Labs like DeepSeek closed the quality gap by developing more efficient advanced AI models at a fraction of the cost using half the computational resources.

Why It’s Important:

• AI is becoming like electricity or the Internet. It’s everywhere now, working behind the scenes across your favorite platforms.

• Tech Giants like Meta, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft plan to spend upwards of $320 billion on Capital Expenditures (CapEx) for AI infrastructure in 2025, highlighting the glaring short-term mismatch between investments in GenAI and the technology’s current revenue.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

NVIDIA released “Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1,” a Reasoning Engine that excels at debugging code and solving complex math problems.

Researchers at the University of Missouri (“Mizzou”) developed a starfish-inspired AI Wearable that detects heart problems with over 90% accuracy.

Amazon launched “Nova Sonic,” a Foundation Model that mimics a person’s tone, style, and pace to enable more human-like voice conversations in GenAI applications.

Hundreds of Major Publishers across America are calling on the U.S. government to “stop AI theft” and “make Big Tech companies pay for the content they take” to train advanced AI models.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Sturdy raises a $6M Seed Round for an AI-Based Customer Intelligence Platform.

• Artisan secures a $25M Series A to automate your Outbound with AI Employees.

• Tessell closes a $60M Series B to deploy an AI Copilot for your Cloud Database that reduces Database Estate Costs by 40%.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Centerfield (Los Angeles, CA): Data Engineer Intern, Summer 2025

• Truveta (Seattle, WA): Dedicated Support Research Analyst, Entry-Level

• Scale AI (New York, NY): Software Engineer, Data Platform, Mid-Level

• Qloo (Remote): Senior Machine Learning (ML) Scientist, Senior-Level

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