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Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI moved into its third day of testimony this week, and the courtroom is producing some uncomfortable reading. Emails, texts, and Musk's own social media posts are being entered into evidence as he argues that Sam Altman betrayed the organization's founding nonprofit mission by pivoting toward profit. It's a case about idealism, money, and who gets to rewrite the original deal.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has quietly signed AI agreements with some of the biggest names in tech — Google, OpenAI, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and SpaceX among them. The deals would allow artificial intelligence tools to run on top-secret military networks, a significant escalation in how the Defense Department is thinking about AI as operational infrastructure, not just a research curiosity.
And on the gaming front, Microsoft's Xbox division is facing a rough quarter. Console sales dropped thirty-three percent in the company's third quarter results, and leadership acknowledged there is, in their words, work to do. It raises real questions about whether the traditional console model still has legs, or whether Xbox's future is purely in software and streaming.
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