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Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial
Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their closing arguments this week, and now it’s up to jurors to decide whether OpenAI did anything wrong as it’s transformed intoa slightly-more-for-profitorganization. But as Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I noted on the latest episode ofTechCrunch’s Equity podcast, a big theme in the trial’s final days waswhether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy— for example, Musk’s attorney Steve Molo grilled Altman about whether statements he’d made during congressional testimony were truthful. Kirsten noted that Musk hasmade plenty of misleading statements of his own, and that trust isn’t just an issue for Altman. “This is a fundamental question [for] a lot of tech journalists, policymakers, and more and more consumers, about all the AI labs,” she said. “It’s really come down to trust, because we don’t have the insight, necessarily — these are all privately held companies, there’s a lot behind the veil still.” Keep reading for a preview of our conversation, edited for length and clarity. Anthony Ha:[The end of the trial] led to this really provocative headline from one of our writers, Tim Fernholz, [that] just says,“Who trusts Sam Altman?”Does anyone want to take a stab at answering this? Kirsten Korosec:Yeah, Anthony, I’m going to throw it right back to you. Do you trust Sam Altman? Anthony:It's an interesting question because it feels like something that's kind of a wild question to discuss in a journalistic context, but actually that's the core of the trial, in a lot of ways. Sean O’Kane:That’s not a yes. Anthony:And it actually seems to be [at the] core of understanding so much of what's happened at OpenAI, especially this big executive power struggle that they now call The Blip. It just seems like a lot of people who've worked with Altmandon't trust him. And he's acknowledged this a little bit, because he'll talk about the fact thathe recognizes he's been conflict averse, telling people what they want to hear, and he's trying to work on that. I mean, it sounds plausible, and I can understand how that can lead to misunderstandings in some situations. [But] I'm also a very conflict-averse person and I'd like to think that if any of this stuff went to trial, that people would not be asking, “Is Anthony Ha trustworthy?” Sean:Still not a yes! Kirsten:I think that people would say that you are trustworthy. I will say that question, while provocative, doesn't just encapsulate what this trial was about. I would zoom out even more and say this is a fundamental question [for] a lot of tech journalists, policymakers, and more and more consumers, about all the AI labs. It's really come down to trust, because we don't have the insight, necessarily — these are all privately held companies, there's a lot behind the veil still. Maybe when they all IPO, we can get a peek, but it is fundamentally about trust and misuse, and do we believe the intent? And what I would throw back is, sometimes the intent can be worthy, noble, and still misused. It can still end up as a bit of a shit show. I think it's more than who trusts Sam Altman — although that was very interesting in this trial — but more of that bigger question that we can apply to the entire industry. Sean:I'll say it: I don't trust him. But you know, I don't trust most people, so I guess that's just the baseline. We’ll see where this goes. The trial wraps up today. I've been very curious to hear how the jury decides this all. I think at the start of this, a big motivator of this was Elon Musk trying to sling mud, at a perceived rival and someone who he feels slighted him. And I don't know if we know enough yet to say that that was completely accomplished, and whether or not he has a shot at winning. But I think all these people came out of this looking a little bit worse. Anthony:And just to get specific, why this is coming up this week is that [Altman] was on the stand and he was basically getting grilled about some statements he's made in the past, in testimony to [Congress], basically saying he didn't have any equity in OpenAI. And that is not true because he had a stake through Y Combinator, which he used to run. And tried to brush that off by saying, “I assume that everybody understands what it means to be a passive investor in a VC fund.” And I think [Elon Musk’s] lawyer, somewhat fairly, said “Really? You think the congressman who was interviewing you knew that?” Kirsten:Yeah, I mean, he was playing the whole semantics game. What I thought was so interesting about [this] is the style of how Sam Altman answered questions [compared to] Elon Musk on the stand. So Elon Musk, in many, many, many scenarios and many instances, we can point to the fact that he put something out on Twitter that was a lie or a bit of a fib, and on the stand corrected the record. So there's a history of, I would say, non-truthfulness-slash-lying, blatant or otherwise, in Elon Musk's world, but how he treated it was incredibly combative and very different than Altman who really took this [attitude of], “I'm working on it,” and tried to seem sort of affable and I don't know if it’ll work for him. Because it really comes down to the core facts, and hopefully that's what the jury pays attention to. But I thought that that was really interesting — both being untruthful, but how they dealt with it was very different. Loading the player...
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Apple’s Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats
Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June,according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The Siri relaunch is widely seen as Apple’s big chance to reestablish its relevance in artificial intelligence. As part of that effort, company executives will argue that they’re taking a more privacy-friendly approach than most other AI companies, Gurman said. Apple will reportedly launch the first standalone Siri app,powered by Google Geminiand offering users a chatbot experience reminiscent of ChatGPT. But compared to those other chatbots, the app is supposed to have more limitations on how long user information can be used and stored. For example, Gurman said Siri could include a feature similar to the Messages app, allowing users to automatically delete conversations after 30 days or one year — or to keep them indefinitely. Gurman also suggested that Apple might be emphasizing privacy as a way to excuse Siri’s shortcomings compared to competing products — and that this emphasis might obscure the fact that Google is handling some the security.
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TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just clickTechCrunch Mobility! There is a bit of a theme emerging in transportation — and really every industry: AI is creating jobs for some at the loss of others. General Motors, for instance,laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees — in a deliberate skills swap. This won’t translate into a one-to-one exchange, which means there will likely be a net-negative job loss. But GM insists it is hiring and those layoffs have made room for it to recruit IT people with AI-focused backgrounds. The most sought-after capabilities are AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, agent and model development, prompt engineering, and new AI workflows. In practical terms, GM is looking for people who know how to build with AI from the ground up — designing the systems, training the models, and engineering the pipelines — not just use AI as a productivity tool. Those AI job losses are mounting in the automotive sector. CNBCcalculatedthat Ford, GM, and Stellantis have cut a combined total of more than 20,000 U.S. salaried jobs, or 19% of their combined workforces, from recent employment peaks this decade. While there are a variety of reasons for these cuts, they are generally connected to technological changes, including AI. Companies are leaning heavily into AI, although anecdotes from some engineers and founders suggests not all of these businesses know quite what they’re doing with it yet. Samsarais one company that seems to have figured out a revenue-generating use case. The company has spent the last decade giving its customers cameras to mount inside millions of trucks for driver monitoring, theft prevention, and helping with liability claims. The company took that mountain of data and trained its own model that candetect potholesand determine how quickly they are deteriorating. The company is pitching this product to cities and announced it has several under contract, including Chicago. Nothing this week, although I am working on a fun one! Reach out anytime with insights, tips, or just because. You can reach us via email or Signal. Email Kirsten Korosec atkirsten.korosec@techcrunch.comor my Signal at kkorosec.07, or email Sean O'Kane atsean.okane@techcrunch.com. You might have noticed that Rivian’s spinoff companyMind Roboticsraised another $400 million, just two months afterraising $500 million. And that pace got me thinking about its founder RJ Scaringe and his innate ability to get VC and institutional backers to invest in his ideas and projects. I calculated that investors have poured $12.3 billion into Scaringe’s three startups — Also, Mind Robotics, and Rivian. That figure doesn’t include the close to $12 billion in gross proceeds raised in Rivian’s IPO, nor did I count the more recent strategic deals with Volkswagen Group and Uber — which together could add nearly $7 billion to Rivian’s coffers. You can read my whole riff on the topic here. But if you don’t feel like clicking, here is one item that stood out. I spoke to a number of insiders and investors and they all mentioned Scaringe’s ability to give undivided attention to whoever he’s talking to — whether it's an investor, supplier, or exec — and make them feel like the most important person in the room. It’s yet another piece of evidence in my long-standing case against multitasking. Debate me! Other deals that got my attention … Arkeus, an Australian startup that developed perception software for autonomous drones and aircraft,raised $18 millionin a Series A round led by QIC Ventures. Other investors include R+VC, Folklore Ventures, DYNE Ventures, Main Sequence Ventures, Salus Ventures, and Beaten Zone. Aseon Labs, a Redwood City, California, startup that has developed a depot in a box for charging, cleaning, and inspecting autonomous fleets,came out of stealthwith undisclosed backing by Y Combinator. Rapidoraised $240 millionin a round led by Prosus, and that values the Indian ride-hailing company at $3 billion. Existing investors, including WestBridge Capital and Accel, participated. The round was part of a larger $730 million primary and secondary financing. Quantum Systems, a Germany-based drone startup backed by Peter Thiel, is in talks to raise around €600 million ($703 million) with companies like Airbus and Blackstone as investors,Bloomberg reported. Is Redwood Materials ready for an IPO?Senior reporter Sean O’Kane interviewed the company’s new CFO,Deepak Ahuja, whose name will be familiar to anyone who follows Tesla. Ahuja was Tesla’s former finance chief and most recently held a similar position at drone company Zipline. TeslaRobotaxis have crashed at least twice since July 2025 while ateleoperator was remotely drivingthe vehicles, according to newly unredacted information submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Uberisexpanding in Indiawith two new engineering campuses that can fit about 9,600 people and a data center partnership aimed at supporting its overall product development and infrastructure operations. Waymoissued a software update to its fleet of nearly 4,000 vehicles to help themavoid flooded roadsas part of a recall announced by the NHTSA. Important note: The company hasn’t fully solved the problem of how its vehicles behave in these conditions. Disrupt, our flagship annual tech conference in San Francisco, will be held in October. And while that is a ways off, I wanted to share one bit of news. We will have six stages this year, which you can read about inmore detail here. One worth noting for this crowd is ourAI in the Real World Stage.It will be here that we’ll dig into robotics, autonomous systems, manufacturing, defense, and industrial operations.
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If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI
Commencement season has come around again — and this year, at least a couple speakers have discovered that it’s tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence. Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company,gave a speech at the University of Central Floridaacknowledging that we’re living in a time of “profound change,” which can be both “exciting” and “daunting.” “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution,” Caulfield declared — prompting the students in the audience to begin booing, getting louder and louder until Caulfield chuckled, turned to the other speakers, and asked, “What happened?” “Okay, I struck a chord,” she said. Caulfield then tried to resume her speech, saying, “Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives” — only to be interrupted again by the audience, this time by their loud cheers and applause. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced a similar response when he brought up AI at a University of Arizona speech on Friday. In Schmidt’s case, the pushback actually began before the speech itself, with some student groupscalling for him to be removed as commencement speakerdue toa lawsuit in which a former girlfriend and business partner accused Schmidt of sexual assault. (He has denied the allegations.) According toa local news report,the booing began even before Schmidt took the stage. But Schmidt alsogot loud booswhen he told students, “You will help shape artificial intelligence.” The booing was persistent enough that Schmidt tried to speak over it, insisting, “You can now assemble a team of AI agents to help you with the parts that you could never accomplish on your own. When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat, you just get on.” To be clear, AI isn't becoming the third rail ateverygraduation ceremony. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recentlyspoke at Carnegie Mellon’s commencement, and he didn’t seem to get any audible pushback when he said that AI has “reinvented computing.” Still, it's not exactly surprising to find some students in a booing mood. Ina recent Gallup poll, only 43% of Americans aged 15 to 34 said it’s a good time to find a job locally, a steep drop from 75% in 2022. That pessimism isn’t just a response to the rise of AI (a shift thateven tech industry workers are worried about), but journalist and tech industry criticBrian Merchant suggestedthat for many students, AI has become “the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism.” “I too would loudly boo at the prospect of this next industrial revolution if I was in my early twenties, unemployed, and had aspirations for my future greater than entering prompts into an LLM,” Merchant wrote. Even when the speeches didn’t mention AI explicitly, “resilience”was a recurring theme this year. Schmidt himselfacknowledgedthat there is “a fear in your generation that the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating, that the climate is breaking, that politics are fractured, and that you are inheriting a mess that you did not create." Caulfield, meanwhile, might also have misread her audience of arts and humanities graduates. One student said that before mentioning AI, Caulfield already started to lose them with her “generic” praise of corporate executives like Jeff Bezos. Another graduate, Alexander Rose Tyson,told The New York Times, “It wasn’t one person that really started the booing. It was just sort of like a collective, ‘This sucks.’”
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