Elon Musk's Biographer Explains How Sam Altman Triggered Elon's 'Demon Mode'

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Walter Isaacson, biographer of Elon Musk, says the Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) billionaire has a look he reserves for Sam Altman, and it isn’t pretty. “I just watched his face as he went into what we ...

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The premise was simple: build an AI lab that was open source and nonprofit, a direct counterweight to Google’s dominance in the field. \nAltman later changed that, converting OpenAI into a for-profit entity. For Musk, who had been among the company’s earliest and most prominent backers, that was the original sin.\nMusk filed suit against Altman in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging OpenAI abandoned its founding nonprofit mission.\nIsaacson does not expect it to end quietly. “It’s not something we can just say, okay, it’s a little bit of money here or there, let’s divvy up the proceeds and go home,” he said.\nThe personal dimension, he argued, makes settlement close to impossible. This is not a standard contract dispute. It is a story about ideology, trust and a founding relationship that curdled into something much uglier.\nBettors are not backing Musk. The Polymarket contract on whether he wins his case against Altman by December 31, 2026 sits at just 39%, on $93,126 in volume. It has ticked slightly upwards in recent weeks. \nKalshi has a similar contract, which is at 36% for Musk to prevail. This has seen $339,000 in volume. \nBoth charts are similar. Odds hovered near 55% through January and February before collapsing in early March.\n“I think he was partly personal and partly business,” Isaacson said. “He just wanted to come in when Anthropic was losing its way with the Pentagon.”\nImage: Shutterstock\nTo add Benzinga News as your preferred source on Google, click here.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"tenantId":"TBGLOBAL","deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.40.0","shortVersion":"4.40.0","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2625950662","isCrawlerRequest":true}