Elon Musk wants $130 billion from OpenAI

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⚖️ Elon Musk Just Took the Stand Against OpenAI and It Got Intense Immediately

👨‍💻 How to Automate Browser Tasks With Gemini Skills in Chrome

🤖 Anthropic Just Became the World's Most Valuable AI Company and Did Not Stop There

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⚖️ Elon Musk Just Took the Stand Against OpenAI and It Got Intense Immediately

The trial between Musk and OpenAI kicked off this week in Oakland with Musk testifying first, painting himself as the man who tried to save humanity and got betrayed for it.

The Shift:

What Musk Is Claiming - Musk says he cofounded OpenAI as a nonprofit, gave $44 million in early funding, and claims Altman and Brockman betrayed the original mission. "It was specifically meant to be a charity that does not benefit any individual person."

The Charity Argument - Musk told the jury that "if a verdict comes out that it's OK to loot a charity, the entire foundation of charitable giving in America will be damaged." He called the nonprofit structure non-negotiable from day one.

What He Wants -  Musk is seeking $130 billion in damages, removal of Altman and Brockman, and a forced unwind of OpenAI's for-profit conversion. A win would directly threaten OpenAI's planned IPO.

OpenAI's Response - OpenAI's legal team called the suit "sour grapes," saying Musk only objected to the company's structure after it succeeded without him. "We're here because Mr. Musk didn't get his way at OpenAI."

Microsoft's Defense - Microsoft said it knew nothing of Altman's 2023 firing and that Musk raised no objections to OpenAI's structure until xAI became a direct competitor.

The Drama Outside Court - Judge Rogers scolded Musk for posting about the trial on X and threatened a gag order. OpenAI exists, Musk said from the stand, because Larry Page called him a speciesist. The trial has barely started.

A win for Musk would directly threaten OpenAI's planned IPO and hand xAI a significant advantage. Musk told the jury AGI is coming as soon as next year and that AI could kill us all. The trial has barely started.

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👨‍💻 How to Automate Browser Tasks With Gemini Skills in Chrome

Write a prompt once. Trigger it forever with a slash command.

Step 1: Run a prompt in the Gemini panel - Open the Gemini sidebar in Chrome. Run any prompt you’d want to reuse, summarize a page, extract data, compare tabs, anything.

Step 2: Save it as a Skill - At the end of the chat, save it directly from your history. Name it, add an emoji, done.

Step 3: Trigger it with  - Type “/” in the Gemini panel, select your Skill, and it runs on whatever page you’re viewing, or across multiple tabs at once.

Step 4: Browse the prebuilt library - Go to chrome://skills/browse for 50+ ready-made Skills across Research, Shopping, Writing, and Productivity. Customize any of them.

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🤖 Anthropic Just Became the World's Most Valuable AI Company and Did Not Stop There

In the same week OpenAI missed its own revenue targets, Anthropic crossed a $1 trillion valuation and launched a suite of creative workflow integrations that signal exactly where the AI race is heading next.

The Shift:

The Numbers Tell a Story - Anthropic hit $1 trillion while OpenAI missed its own revenue projections, sending Oracle and chip stocks lower. The Atlantic published a piece this week titled "Anthropic's Little Brother" about OpenAI.

Claude Just Moved Into Your Creative Stack - Anthropic launched Claude for Creative Work this week, bringing native connectors for Blender, Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk Fusion, Ableton, Splice, SketchUp, and Canva all at once.

Adobe Went All In on the Same Day - Adobe shipped its own Claude connector, giving live access to 50+ professional tools across Photoshop, Premiere, Firefly, and InDesign. Anthropic also joined the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron.

The Benchmark Race Is Over - Claude and GPT-5.5 trade benchmark wins every six weeks. The real competition now is workflow depth; whichever lab embeds deepest into the tools people already pay for wins the next phase.

One day after OpenAI dropped Microsoft exclusivity, Anthropic moved onto AWS Bedrock. The chat interface is saturated and workflow depth is now the moat. Whoever runs natively inside your existing tools controls where AI goes next.

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🚀Quick Shifts

🔐 GitHub patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability within six hours after it was discovered using AI, preventing potential access to millions of repositories with no evidence of exploitation.

🚗 General Motors is rolling out Google’s Gemini AI assistant to about four million vehicles via OTA updates, upgrading in-car experiences with more conversational controls for navigation, messaging, and entertainment.

🎤 Taylor Swift is escalating her fight against AI impersonation, filing trademarks for signature voice phrases like “Hey, it’s Taylor Swift” as legal tools to protect her identity in an era where AI can replicate voices but copyright cannot.

🛍️ Amazon is rolling out an AI-powered “Join the chat” feature that lets shoppers ask product questions and receive real-time, conversational audio responses based on reviews, features, and context.

📱 Lovable has launched its vibe-coding AI app builder on iOS and Android, letting users create apps via voice or text prompts on the go while complying with Apple’s restrictions by generating web-based apps instead of running code natively.

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Landing Page Audit That Actually Finds Conversion Leaks

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🤳AI Nugget of the Day

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