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Elon Musk lies about owning a laptop · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hey everybody, welcome. Back to the Elon Musk Podcast.
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  This is a show where we discuss the critical crossroads that
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  shape SpaceX, Tesla X The Boring Company.
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  And Neurolink. I'm your.
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  Host Will Walden, Elon Musk's legal team told the Federal
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  Court that he does not use a computer, even though Elon Musk
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  has posted multiple photos of his laptop and discussed his
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  computer habits on social media, including and his platform X
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  Now. This contradiction appeared in a
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  legal filing submitted on Sunday as part of Elon Musk's ongoing
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  lawsuit against Open AI and CEO Sam Altman.
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  Musk's legal team made the claim to explain their data search
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  process during discovery, saying they had already searched his
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  phone and e-mail and asserted that Elon Musk doesn't even use
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  the computer. Finally responded to Open AI's
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  accusation that Musk and his company Ex AI failed to comply
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  with court ordered discovery. Now, Musk's statement stands at
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  odds with his own history of laptop use.
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  In December of 2024, Musk posted a photo of a laptop bearing a
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  Dogecoin sticker and wrote this is a pic of my laptop.
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  A guy in Germany gave me this cool sticker so I don't want to
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  upgrade it and lose the sticker. He referenced the same laptop
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  again a month later responding to a question about gaming,
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  saying still using my ancient PC laptop with the AT doge sticker
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  made long ago by a fan. And Musk is also mentioned using
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  both a desktop PC and a Mac in previous posts.
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  Employees at X told Wired that Musk mostly operates from his
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  phone but occasionally uses the laptop.
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  Wired also reported the photos of Musk's office in Washington,
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  DC's Eisenhower Executive Office Building showed a gaming PC
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  setup. Now these public and private
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  details undermine the legal team statement that he doesn't even
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  use a computer now. The lawsuit stems from Musk's
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  long running feud with Open AI, which he Co founded in 2015.
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  Musk originally joined the company to ensure that
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  artificial intelligence development stayed non
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  commercial and serve the public good.
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  Open AI is transformation into a capped profit structure, and its
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  close business relationship with Microsoft fueled Musk's
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  departure from the board 2018 and eventually led him to sue
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  the company earlier this year. Now, Musk argues that Open AI
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  breached his founding contract by building AI systems primarily
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  to benefit Microsoft rather than humanity at large.
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  And so claims that Open AI is current profit seeking structure
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  contradicts the original agreement among the company's
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  founders. Though a judge declined to block
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  opening eyes for profit operations, she allowed the case
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  to move towards a trial scheduled for this year.
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  Now, as tensions escalated, Opening Out responded with its
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  own legal action against Elon Musk.
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  It accused him of unfair competition and interfering with
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  business relationships, including those with investors
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  and customers. And the countersuit frame Musk's
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  claims as a attempt to undermine Open AI success with ChatGPT,
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  which launched publicly in 2022. Now, Musk launched XAI in 2023
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  to pursue his version of AI development, promising greater
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  openness and adherence to safety.
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  The company has since become part of a broader effort by Musk
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  to build technology alternatives to those owned by competitors,
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  including Open AI, Google, and Meta.
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  Now, the courtroom dispute between Musk and Open AI is a
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  deeper disagreement about a eyes direction and ownership.
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  Open AI started as a nonprofit backed by idealistic promises,
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  but it's since evolved into a commercial operation that relies
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  on exclusivity deals, including a major partnership with
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  Microsoft. Musk's response has been to
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  criticize this evolution and try to build an alternative from
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  scratch of both sides in this legal battle accuse the other of
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  betraying foundational values. Musk claims Open AI abandoned
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  its original mission for commercial gain.
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  Open AI accuses Musk of exploiting the company's growth
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  to serve his personal and competitive interests.
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  The trial, if proceeds if it proceeds as scheduled, will
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  force both sides to present detailed records about the
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  company's early agreements, internal decisions and
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  documents, and business motivations.
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  And it will also revisit the founding era of Open AI and the
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  evolution that brought it to its current position.
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  Now, Elon's denial of computer use adds kind of a bizarre
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  detail to this case that's already defined by sharp
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  personal and legal conflicts between Elon Musk and Sam Altman
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  and the other members of Open AI.
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  And the trial is expected to clarify the legal boundaries of
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  startup founding agreements and how much power those original
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  intentions carry once a company like Open AI changes direction,
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  goes for profit and makes billions of dollars, as opposed
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  to staying as a nonprofit that is there to just benefit
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  humanity. Hey, thank.
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