Musk V. Altman

Musk V. Altman

Author: Morning Brew April 28, 2026 Duration: 15:28
The Musk v. Altman trial seated a jury in California, with opening arguments set for today. Microsoft and OpenAI amended their partnership, removing the AGI clause. OpenAI missed internal user and revenue targets, Google launches Ask YouTube, and March saw 45,800 tech layoffs. A US judge seated a nine-person jury in the Musk v. Altman trial at a federal courthouse in California; Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were in attendance (CNBC) Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal to let OpenAI serve all its products across any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI (OpenAI) Sources: OpenAI missed an internal goal of reaching 1B weekly active ChatGPT users by 2025's end, and missed multiple monthly revenue targets earlier in 2026 (WSJ) Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search "experiment" that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+ (The Verge) Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards says the company is overhauling Terminal with a new chatbot-style interface called ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta (Wired) Layoffs.fyi: companies announced layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employees in March, making it the worst month for reported tech job cuts in at least two years (WSJ) An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of new websites published since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (404 Media) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How To AI With WSJ's Chris Mims [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:00
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Anthropic Makes Its Move [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:31
Anthropic raises the second largest financing round of all time. Other AI players are beginning to show hockey stick revenue growth. Meta wants to add facial recognition to its glasses. Ring pulls back from some recognit…
Pour Moi, C'est Le Déluge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:11
Aaannddd…. Right on time here come the Chinese AI models. Elon Musk kicks off a major reorg of xAI. Google is warning of AI distillation attacks. New Waymo cars hit the road. And another interesting AI essay to read to y…
The “Covid Moment” For AI? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:29
Forget the ChatGPT moment, is this the “Covid Moment” for AI, the moment when everything has changed its just that not everyone knows it yet? More weird musical chairs at the AI companies. TikTok but for around the block…
AI: Better, Faster, Stronger… Or Just Working Harder? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:13
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The AI Superbowl [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:39
Sam Altman assures staff that OpenAI has a good week, but is Anthropic definitively growing faster at this point? Is the CapEx spend about to eat ALL of Silicon Valley’s free cashflow while Apple sits out the party? And…
Piracy Is Back! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:15
Claude Opus 4.6 arrives to crown Anthropic’s very good week, at least, for them it was good. You thought tech was spending big to build out for AI, but this week we’ve seen how big. Crypto seems to have really hit a shar…
Is Software Eating The World Being Eaten By AI? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:43
Alphabet earnings. Claude goes to the Superbowl. Why AI brand loyalty isn’t even remotely a thing yet. And is the whole Marc Andreessen theory of software eating the world in the process of being eaten by AI? Wall Street…
(BNS) Ring Founder Jamie Siminoff [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:00
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SpaceX Acquires xAI [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:23
As SpaceX acquires xAI, all of Elon’s companies under one umbrella is pretty much an inevitability isn’t it? What is with this weird game of chicken that Nvidia and OpenAI and now Oracle are all engaging in all of the su…