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Feed: All Latest | How Shivon Zilis Operated as Elon Musk’s OpenAI Insider by Maxwell Zeff, Paresh Dave AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Shivon Zilis, a longtime Musk associate and mother of four of his children, emerged during the first week of the Musk‑v‑Altman trial as a pivotal behind‑the‑scenes conduit between Elon Musk and OpenAI. Joining OpenAI as an advisor in 2016 and later serving on its nonprofit board (2020‑2023), Zilis also held executive roles at Neuralink and Tesla. Court testimony and documents reveal that she acted as Musk’s informal “chief of staff” and “close advisor,” relaying internal OpenAI developments, negotiating equity structures, and coordinating personnel moves while simultaneously advising OpenAI founders on managing their relationship with Musk. Texts and emails show Zilis updating Musk on fundraising, project progress, and strategic concerns—such as Musk’s desire to limit the influence of Google DeepMind’s leader—and facilitating communications during key moments, including Musk’s departure from the board (February 2018) and later disputes over OpenAI’s shift toward for‑profit funding and valuation. Her dual role as confidante to both Musk and OpenAI leadership underscores the intricate personal and professional ties that have become central to the legal battle over alleged breaches of the original charitable mission of OpenAI. Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/model-behavior-why-everything-in-musk-v-altman-leads-back-to-shivon-zelis/ #ShivonZilis #ElonMusk #OpenAI #SamAltman #GregBrockman #IlyaSutskever

qwant news | The Musk v. Altman court battle reveals how the oligarchy is afraid of itself AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. The article chronicles the unraveling of the partnership between Elon Musk and Sam Altman that began in 2015 as a nonprofit effort to keep artificial‑intelligence power from concentrating in the hands of a single tech giant. After Musk’s $38 million donation helped launch OpenAI, the founders’ visions diverged: Musk left the board in 2018, the organization created a for‑profit arm, and Altman steered it toward a lucrative partnership with Microsoft. In 2024 Musk sued OpenAI, accusing Altman and the company of betraying their original altruistic mission and turning the nonprofit into a “for‑profit leviathan” that endangers safety, disinformation, and child‑exploitation concerns. Court filings reveal the intense personal and ideological clashes, the struggle over governance structures, and the broader battle over who should control AI’s future—a conflict that the article frames as a cautionary tale of hubris, power struggles, and the difficulty of collective oversight in Silicon Valley. Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/elon-musk-sam-altman-openai-trial/ #ElonMusk #SamAltman #IlyaSutskever #Microsoft #OpenAI #BillGates #PierreOmidyar #DustinMoskovitz