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12.06.2024 - 02:45 / deadline.com
Elon Musk can huff, post and puff, but looks like he won’t be blowing the OpenAI house down.
Three and a half months after declaring that he was sueing to compel the Sam Altman-led firm he co-founded to stop chasing profits and “return to its mission to develop AGI for the benefit of humanity,” the X owner today withdrew the lawsuit.
No reason was given for dropping the action. However, being that Musk dismissed his own suit without prejudice, the tempestuous billionaire is free to file again if he chooses.
Noticeably, the dismissal comes about 24 hours before a Bay Area judge had set a hearing on OpenAI and Altman’s motion to toss the case out. Musk’s self-dismissal also comes just over 24 hours after the Tesla boss went on a social media rant about Apple bringing OpenAI’s ChatGPT on board as a backup of sorts for its new AI program Apple Intelligence.
At one point getting into Scarlett Johansson’s squabble with OpenAI, Musk declared that all Apple products will be “banned” from X, Tesla, SpaceX, the Boring Company and any other company he owns. Musk called it “an unacceptable security violation” if “Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level.”
Musk initially sued OpenAI and its top executives in March for breach of contract.
“This case is filed to compel OpenAI to adhere to the Founding Agreement and return to its mission to develop AGI for the benefit of humanity, not to personally benefit the individual Defendants and the largest technology company in the world,” the filing stated.
With Musk raising billions in funding for his own xAI, OpenAI slapped aside the South African’s lawsuit as “incoherent.”
They further exclaimed: “Were this case to proceed to discovery, the evidence would show that Musk supported a
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his third child with Neuralink director Shivon Zilis earlier this year — making the tech mogul a father to at least 12 children.Half of the $210-billion-man’s kids were born in the past five years. His children include his three with Zillis, three with Canadian popstar Grimes and five with his ex-wife Justine Wilson.
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turned down former co-star Andrew McCarthy’s offer to appear in the new Hulu documentary, “Brats,” about the ’80s-era group of actors. But Nelson seemingly makes a cameo — though only over the phone — at the very end of the doc. Just before the credits roll on “Brats,” McCarthy, who wrote, directed and stars in the project, is standing on a dock and answers a phone call.“Hello? Judd?” says McCarthy, 61.There’s been no confirmation that Nelson was on the other end of that phone call.
Elon Musk is making yet another controversial change to his social media platform.
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Madonna‘s legal team has labelled the class action lawsuit against the singer for showing up late on stage as a “harassment campaign”.More than one class action lawsuit has been filed over her late starts during her recent ‘Celebration’ 40th anniversary tour. In January, Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden, two fans who bought tickets to the December 13 date of Madonna’s ‘Celebration’ shows at the Barclays Center, filed a lawsuit against Madonna in New York for starting the concert more than two hours past the stipulated 8:30pm start time.The lawsuit accused her of not only breaching contracts with ticket buyers, but also of “false advertising, negligent representation, and unfair and deceptive trade practices”.A few months later, Madonna asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit filed against her.
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