About this episode
The episode discusses the Musk v. Altman trial and various developments in the tech industry, including layoffs and corporate partnerships.
The Musk v. Altman trial seated a jury in California, with opening arguments set for today. Microsoft and OpenAI amended their partnership, removing the AGI clause. OpenAI missed internal user and revenue targets, Google launches Ask YouTube, and March saw 45,800 tech layoffs. A US judge seated a nine-person jury in the Musk v. Altman trial at a federal courthouse in California; Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were in attendance (CNBC) Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal to let OpenAI serve all its products across any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI (OpenAI) Sources: OpenAI missed an internal goal of reaching 1B weekly active ChatGPT users by 2025's end, and missed multiple monthly revenue targets earlier in 2026 (WSJ) Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search "experiment" that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+ (The Verge) Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards says the company is overhauling Terminal with a new chatbot-style interface called ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta (Wired) Layoffs.fyi: companies announced layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employees in March, making it the…
Topics covered
- legal trial
- technology news
- AI developments
- corporate partnerships
- tech layoffs
Keywords
- Musk
- Altman
- OpenAI
- Microsoft
- tech layoffs
- Ask YouTube
- ChatGPT
- AGI clause
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Bloomberg, 404 Media
Products: ChatGPT, Ask YouTube, ASKB
Places: California
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