Ep 224 — Musk v. Altman … May The Best Asteroid Win

Ep 224 — Musk v. Altman … May The Best Asteroid Win

From Law and Chaos by Liz Dye

April 28, 2026 · 1h 1m · Episode 224

About this episode

The episode discusses the courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over AI funding and various legal issues involving Donald Trump and government practices.

Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, Republicans are insisting that the lone gunman at the White House Correspondents Dinner means that Trump can — in fact, must! — build his illegal ballroom. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche tweeted out a demand for the National Historic Trust to drop its lawsuit. The Trust told him to get bent.   Trump’s shakedown of the IRS hit a snag as a federal judge in Florida said she may not have jurisdiction over a case where the plaintiff and the defendant are the same person — Donald Trump. And EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is being so weird at Congress. Is he bad at law, or just lying? MAIN SHOW:  It’s a courtroom brawl between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over the past and future of AI. Musk claims he was swindled out of seed money by claims that OpenAI would be operated as a non-profit, only to watch the company pivot to a trillion-dollar for-profit enterprise. The jury is empaneled, and the trial begins this week.   The Supreme Court heard oral argument Monday in Chatrie v. US. The case involves law enforcement's use of “geofencing” data to find criminal suspects based on their cell phone location data. Should the…

People in this episode

Host: Liz Dye

Topics covered

  • AI litigation
  • Trump legal issues
  • geofencing data
  • political crisis
  • government accountability

Keywords

  • Elon Musk
  • Sam Altman
  • Trump lawsuit
  • geofencing
  • OpenAI
  • legal issues
  • politics
  • EPA

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI, National Historic Trust, EPA

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