Okay this is INSANE. The Brockman testimony from yesterday is nuclear.
Here's what's new:
→ Brockman took the stand Monday. Confirmed his OpenAI stake is worth nearly $30 billion.
→ Musk's lawyer asked him over a dozen times about the $30B number. Then asked: "Do you think you should give the $29 billion back to the charity?" Brockman: "That's not how I think about it."
→ The lawyer pushed harder: "It takes $30 billion to get you out of bed in the morning, but $1 billion doesn't?" Brockman: "That's not what I'm saying."
→ Then the journal entries dropped.
→ From 2017, while OpenAI was still a nonprofit:
Brockman wrote to himself: "Financially, what will take me to $1B?"
→ Another entry: "cannot say we are committed to the non-profit. don't wanna say we're committed. if three months later we're doing a b-corp it is a lie."
→ Another: "maybe we should just flip to a for-profit. making money for us sounds great and all."
→ And possibly the most damaging one: "it'd be wrong to steal the non-profit from him. to convert to a b-corp without him. that'd be pretty morally bankrupt and he's really not an idiot."
→ The judge herself cited these journal entries back in January when she denied OpenAI's motion to dismiss the entire case.
→ OpenAI's defense: the entries are "cherry-picked" from hundreds of pages of personal reflection. Brockman called them "expressions of frustration, not a concrete plan."
→ Musk's lawyer then asked how many times Brockman rehearsed that explanation before taking the stand.
→ Musk was NOT in court Monday. Smaller crowds outside. Calmer atmosphere.
→ Brockman returns to the stand Tuesday. Altman and Satya Nadella still expected to testify later this month.
→ Not mentioned during Brockman's testimony: Musk's own net worth of $657 billion.
Those journal entries are the story.
"It is a lie" written in his own handwriting while publicly championing the nonprofit mission.
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