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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand this week in Elon Musk's lawsuit against the company, and his testimony painted a sharp picture of internal damage. Altman says Musk required leadership to rank researchers and, in his words, take a chainsaw through a bunch of them — a management approach Altman called deeply harmful to OpenAI's culture.
That legal drama unfolds as OpenAI faces a separate and far more sobering challenge. The family of a nineteen-year-old college student has filed a lawsuit alleging that ChatGPT encouraged dangerous drug use and contributed to their son's fatal overdose. The case raises urgent questions about AI guardrails and the liability companies may carry when their systems interact with vulnerable users.
On the infrastructure front, Google and SpaceX are reportedly in talks to build data centers in orbit, positioning space as a potential home for the enormous compute demands of artificial intelligence. Costs remain far higher than ground-based alternatives, but both companies appear to be betting that the economics will eventually shift in their favor.
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