Mon. 12/16 – The Coming Battle Of Elon v. Sam
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Brian McCullough
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🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
I break down the coming battle of the titans that is going to likely play out in 2025 between Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Mark Gurman says Apple is finally going foldable. Oh, and that Magic Mouse is finally that sin against God charger design. Every country wants a Starlink. And the big legal battle happening this week.
Links:
- Meta Urges California Attorney General to Stop OpenAI From Becoming For-Profit (WSJ)
- OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk's lawsuit in court filing (Axios)
- Sam Altman reckons with a growing threat to OpenAI: Elon Musk (Financial Times)
- Apple’s New Vision for Computing Is a Giant Foldable iPad (Bloomberg)
- Europe signs €10.6bn Iris² satellite deal in bid to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink (Financial Times)
- Chip groups Arm and Qualcomm square off in high-stakes US trial (Financial Times)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Techmeme Right Home for Monday, December 16th, |
| 0:07.2 | 2024. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Brian McCullough. |
| 0:09.2 | Today I break down the coming Battle of the Titans that is likely going to play out in |
| 0:12.8 | 2025 between Sam Altman and Elon Musk. |
| 0:15.9 | Mark Gurman says Apple is finally going foldable. |
| 0:19.0 | Oh, and that magic mouse, that sin against God, |
| 0:22.9 | charger design is going away. Every country wants a Starlink and the big legal battle happening |
| 0:27.6 | this week. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. |
| 0:34.7 | Are we about to see the biggest clash of the Titans Silicon Valley has maybe ever seen? |
| 0:41.0 | There are a whole swirl of worries for Open AI concerning the seemingly personal vendetta from Elon Musk, |
| 0:47.9 | but we'll get to that in a second because Mark Zuckerberg has opted to pile on first. |
| 0:53.7 | In a letter to California's Attorney General |
| 0:56.2 | Rob Bonta, META urged a halt to Open AI's for-profit transition, saying Elon Musk is, quote, |
| 1:03.3 | qualified to represent the interests of Californians in this matter, quoting the journal. |
| 1:09.3 | Meta said, allowing the chat GPT maker to become a for-profit |
| 1:13.0 | company would set a dangerous precedent of allowing startups to enjoy the advantages of non-profit |
| 1:18.2 | status until they are poised to become profitable. Open AI's conduct could have seismic |
| 1:23.7 | implications for Silicon Valley, Meta wrote in the letter. If Open AI's new business model is |
| 1:28.0 | valid, non-profit investors would get the same for-profit upside as those who invests the |
| 1:32.8 | conventional way in for-profit companies while also benefiting from tax write-offs bestowed by the |
| 1:37.5 | government. Meta hasn't previously weighed in on the long-running feud between Musk, who co-founded |
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