Musk vs. Altman Day Three Highlights

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4.3 • 6 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this episode, we recap the essential takeaways from the Musk-Altman trial on day three. We also reflect on the White House's Anthropic policy change. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	If you want to get access to this episode and my next 30 episodes all ad free, so there'll be no ads on them, go check out my podcast, AI chat. You can go search for that on Spotify or Apple. It's AI chat. I'm going to post all of these news episodes, and I'm also posting interviews like I just interviewed the CEO of Cohere. They've raised over a billion dollars for their AI model, talking about what they're going to be spending the money on and the direction of the AI industry, along with all of this new
0:24.4	stuff. So if you want to go check it out with no ads for free, it is AI chat. Elon Musk and Sam Altman
0:29.8	are both in federal court in Oakland for day three of the $130 billion trial that could force
0:36.1	opening AI back into nonprofit-profit status and also
0:39.5	remove Sam Altman from the board.
0:41.5	Before that, Stanford's 2026 AI index says transparency on frontier models just collapsed
0:48.3	from 58 to 40 out of 100.
0:52.0	Runway CEO is positioning the company behind AI video into world models
0:56.6	at a $5.3 billion valuation. Ex-Twitter CEO, Prague, Argoal, just tripled his agent
1:02.9	infrastructure startup's valuation to $2 billion in five months. And the White House is drafting
1:08.8	an executive action to quietly walk back its anthropic ban.
1:12.6	We're going to get into all of that on the podcast today.
1:15.1	The first one I wanted to cover was the Stanford story.
1:17.8	So Stanford H.A.I just dropped its 2026 AI index, and we're seeing something very interesting
1:23.2	in the report.
1:24.0	One of the things that the foundation model transparency intra-index is tracking or
1:28.8	showed was that the average score dropped from 58 to 40 out of 100 in the last year for how
1:35.1	transparent these AI model companies are. The direct quote from the report is, quote,
1:40.6	the most capable models are now the least transparent. So we're talking about Google,
1:44.8	Anthropic, Open AI. All of them have stopped disclosing their data set sizes and also they
1:49.5	stopped saying, you know, how long their training duration was on the last models. So we basically
1:54.5	have China right now that is narrowing the U.S. capability. They're at, you know, they're like 2.7%
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