Elon Musk

Musk testified in court, with his lawyers attempting to portray him as a visionary entrepreneur concerned with the future of humanity.

“[laughs] You might be surprised, but because of his recent political activities, because he was willing to be very vocal about his politics online, he's aligned with President Trump in a lot of ways. And one way that Musk started off his testimony and his lawy…”

The plaintiff in a lawsuit against OpenAI who lost his case due to the statute of limitations.

“On Monday, after deliberating for under two hours, the jury in the case ruled unanimously against Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI, meaning that OpenAI and Sam Altman weren't liable for any damages. The jury found that Musk's lawsuit fell outside the three-ye…”

Described as a pugilistic and combative figure in court, with OpenAI's lawyers portraying him as a spurned individual seeking control.

“Yeah. So [laughs] I think this actually kind of goes to the heart of how OpenAI is trying to prove its case. They're saying Elon Musk is just a spurned guy who feels like he's being out-competed, and he's mad that he didn't have control over this thing. And th…”

The plaintiff in the lawsuit who claims he was duped by his co-founders regarding the mission of OpenAI.

“Yeah. It's Musk levying this lawsuit, which has been years now in the making. He's saying that with this project that he got involved with with OpenAI so many years ago, he was duped, essentially, from creating what he thought would be a nonprofit to build art…”

Musk co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit, attempted to bring it under Tesla, and later sued the company after it pivoted to a for-profit model following the success of ChatGPT.

“So there's this sort of like interesting Cold War battle brewing between Sam and Elon and other folks involved. They're exchanging these increasingly terse and tense emails with one another, and Musk is worried that he's essentially losing his grasp on this no…”

Musk's counsel is attempting to portray him as the only one building AI for the right reasons while attacking Altman's character.

“Yeah, yeah. Like, I mean, I was uncomfortable. I do this for a living, and I was like, "Oh, God. Ugh, that's brutal. Please stop." I think it can be kind of a gamble. Like, maybe the jury absorbed it or maybe they thought it was a bit much. But picture that Mu…”

Musk is suing OpenAI, seeking damages and a return to a nonprofit structure, while also being the original financier of the company.

“So Musk is asking for a lot. For one, he wants $150 billion, with a B, in damages, but he's saying, "Not for me, of course. It's to be returned to the nonprofit organization," which is, like, the parent of OpenAI, the for-profit company. So it's like this, quo…”

The jury rejected his claims against OpenAI regarding the company's conversion to a for-profit entity.

“We begin tonight's show in Oakland, California, where a three-week trial that fixated the tech world has reached a verdict. The jury there has rejected Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI. He has alleged that OpenAI, quote, "stole a charity when it converted int…”

Musk is involved in a trial against OpenAI, where he is accused of grievance-based legal maneuvering and attempting to gain total control of the company.

“It's a jury decision, and then the judge will decide remedies. So it c-- you know, he, she-- if he lose-- if, if Musk wins, they might say, "Well, we're leaving it as it is and going with the California thing, and they can pay him money or whatever. We're not …”

Noted as a major political donor and someone with enough wealth to potentially influence presidential elections.

“Gross? It... Elon Musk, after the SpaceX IPO, might be worth between $700 billion and a trillion dollars.”

One of the American business leaders accompanying Donald Trump on his trip to China.

“... in a way that I think is smart. Anyway, um, but he doesn't use it for... You know, he has a nice girlfriend, and he, you know, they get into beefs and this and that, but it's, um... But they're, they also have a relationship, and I think it's-- I think tha…”

Mentioned as a trillionaire and for his rocket company's potential deal with Google.

“[laughs] All right. I get it. I get it. Uh, well, speaking of [laughs] them getting more money, besides Elon becoming a trillionaire, Anthropic is in talks to raise new funding that would value it at up to $950 billion. Uh-”

Mentioned as one of the billionaires joining Trump on his trip to China.

“off your first order by using code crooked or going to cookunity.com/crooked. [upbeat music] All right. [laughs] So Trump [laughs] staying on this subject, Trump's about to spend some quality time this week with, uh, fellow imperialist Xi Jinping when he takes…”

Testified in court regarding his past desire to run OpenAI and his suggestion that control should pass to his children.

“This is from the Elon-OpenAI trial this week. Sam Altman was on the witness stand Tuesday and testified that at one point, Elon thought he should run OpenAI. Sam asked him, "Hey, what do you think would happen to the company if you died?" And according to Sam,…”

Mentioned as part of a group of tech executives traveling with President Trump.

“So along with, uh, Jensen Huang, who finagled a last-minute invite, uh, on Air Force One after there were news reports that he was not going to be going on this trip, um, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and Dina Powell McCormick from Meta are also on the trip with Trump.…”

Credited with influencing the public conversation around low birth rates and childlessness.

“It's also the Elon effect, I think.”

Cited as a famous pronatalist who is concerned about existential threats to humanity and long-term human flourishing.

“We are... We're hard effective altruists. We care about the long-term future of humanity, and you can actually see this among many people who are famous pronatalists, like Elon Musk, right? Like, his interests track with what appear to be existential threats t…”

Cited as an example of a high-productivity genius whose innovations benefit the entire world.

“So, uh, but, so I mean, that's 100% true. But when I think about the real economic crime of low fertility, you know, I benefit so much from the existence of Albert Einstein, okay? He invented things that everyone in the world benefits from, ideas, concepts, or…”

Compared to Asha Sharma for his history of conducting polls on Twitter and not following the results.

“... when Elon bought Twitter, he was like, "Should I sell Twitter? Should I, like, give... Should I make somebody else in charge?" And everybody was like, "Yes," and he didn't follow that. [laughs]”

Evaluated for his bold business strategies, chip manufacturing ambitions, and legal troubles at X.

“That's the thing. So I think this is really interesting. Another interesting piece of tech, and we're very tech-heavy today. SpaceX chip-making project in Texas will have an initial price tag of at least fifty-five billion dollars and could eventually grow to …”

Discussed regarding his stance on platform moderation and his claim that his company abides by the laws of the countries where it operates.

“And the l- decision should not be taken by Elon Musk-”

Cited as an example of an elite figure interested in merging human consciousness with machine technology.

“And that's, that's the transhuman agenda. The, so transhumanism, transhumanism, you could say, is the evolution of eugenics to the place where a lot of these elites want to, um, biologically re-engineer the human, and arguably, they wanna get us to a place whe…”

Part of the entourage of American business leaders accompanying Trump.

“There was a lot of anticipation ahead of this meeting. Trump was flanked by an entourage of American business leaders, including Elon Musk and Apple's Tim Cook, and you know, all this got me thinking about one word, China maxing. [gentle music] This is The Ind…”

Cited as a central figure in the legal conflict with OpenAI and as a tech leader currently perceived as a villain.

“AI. There's a clip that went viral of a commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida getting loudly booed as she called the rise of AI, quote, "the next Industrial Revolution." Um, obviously, the polling, especially among young people, is rather s…”

Mentioned for his ambitious promises regarding the deployment of humanoid robots in homes.

“So with Elon Musk promising, um, robots, million robots in everybody's home, how far away are we from that? Or is that, like, one of his other predictions of full self-driving everywhere?”

CEO of Tesla traveling as part of the US delegation.

“Observers expect China to announce purchases of additional soybeans and other farm products, and maybe even Boeing airplanes. Announcing big purchase agreements is a trademark of Trump foreign trips, but these things have often turned out to be less than meets…”

Mentioned as the likely richest person alive.

“Yeah. [laughs] Here's the thing, though. I, I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is the richest person alive-”

A celebrity Adam Malave is compared to in terms of appearance.

“Not at all. People say I look like a young Mark Zuckerberg or like a Gen Z Elon Musk. But then, yeah, other people think I just look like a bisexual Asian, so, um, I don't know if that's a-”

Used as a hyperbolic example of a '10-star' customer experience.

“... with cards making me feel like I'm a pop star. I get to the front lawn of the Airbnb, and there's a press conference in my name. So what's a 10-star experience? 10-star experience, Elon Musk greets me and takes me to space. It's an exercise. It's an exerci…”

Mentioned for his application of first principles in his work at SpaceX.

“And before I say, just to say who Hiroki is, everyone knows Jony Ive. Hiroki is a bit of an unsung hero. I always heard about him. He's like this legendary, mythical figure that, like, was elusive. He- there's, like, almost no photos of him online. There's, li…”

Mentioned as having replied to a story clip from a podcast appearance, illustrating the potential reach of effective clipping.

“... that's probably too high. Let's take a normal episode in an hour. The challenge would be: how do you take, um, three to four moments from that podcast that are, like, MFM in a shot version and give that to people and architect those clips in a way that, th…”

Quoted regarding the difficulty of moving from prototypes to finished, high-quality products.

“... the community doesn't quite understand that in order to get people to move, you have to build something that's as good as, if not better than what you have now. Um, yes, people are doing Rust rewrites, but if they're, if they only, if they only do 85, 90% …”

Mentioned for his focus on Grok and AI companions.

“I love him, but let's just upscale this conversation just one second. Listen, what has happened? What happened is we have these LLMs, they've started to come o- come out. Every company's kinda chosen a slightly different path. You had Elon, he went out, he had…”

Praised for his unique ability to maintain a successful business relationship with China and Xi Jinping.

“That's why it's so extraordinary, by the way, what Elon has. You know, Elon has Tesla in China, no partnership. He's the only one. He has a phenomenal relationship with Xi. When you look at Xi and, um, Elon together, notice how deferential and respectful they …”

Mentioned regarding his comments on Neuralink and empathy.

“I talked to Elon. He said it doesn't give empathy to-”

Mentioned as one of the top salespeople accompanying the delegation to China.

“Well, you heard it today from President Xi when he said he wants a wider door, and that means that he wants the door of business to open even wider between the two countries. We have our absolute best [laughs] salespeople there, not just our president, who has…”

Mentioned by critics as a label applied to Saad.

“... parasitic ideas and the parasitic mind. But i-i- in order to fully tell the story, I then had to say, "But, but a lot of the, the, the mechanisms by which people seem to be completely hijacked in terms of their ability to think critically is really coming …”

Mentioned by Swisher as someone she considered taunting at a trial.

“See, now I'm gonna contrast this. You're doing that, and I was thinking of going. I was in San Francisco last, yesterday and the day before, and I was thinking of going down to the trial, uh, and just waving at Elon to fuck with him. Like, "Hi. Hi, dude. What'…”

Mentioned as a central figure in the legal disputes and power dynamics surrounding OpenAI.

“Well, look what's happening in OpenAI right now, the trial with Musk and OpenAI and Sam Altman. Why are they there? Why are they exposing themselves?”

Referenced regarding the reality of his personal struggles and the misconception that others would want his life.

“It, it, it's the, it's the Elon quote you mentioned earlier, right? Is like, "You don't want... You wouldn't like to be me."”