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Amanda Obidike, PhD.
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Member @ChathamHouse. Global Public Policy @IEEEorg. Fellow @TechWomen. Advisory Board @WiSTEM. International Policy Expert @UNESCO Building @STEMiAfrica
The Cloud of His Glory Katılım Temmuz 2011
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Today is the start of a very important day in the AI world... the trial between Elon and Sam/OpenAI begins today in Oakland Federal Court. The jury selection is happening right now in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and opening arguments are expected Tuesday. The civil jury trial is projected to last 2-4 weeks, with Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers making the final call.
So let me tell you why this fight all came about.
1/ In 2015 Elon co-founded OpenAI with Sam Altman and others as a nonprofit to develop artificial general intelligence safely and openly for the benefit of all humanity... this was supposed to NOT be for profit or for closed corporate control. Elon was a major early funder, contributing around $38-44 million (~60% of early seed funding) plus resources like compute and recruiting.
2/ Then, Elon left the board in 2018 over disagreements for the direction of the company and Microsoft’s growing role of the company.
3/ Later, OpenAI took billions from Microsoft, restructured with a for-profit arm, initially “capped profit,” now more commercial... went closed-source in practice, and exploded in value with ChatGPT. FYI, the current valuation of OpenAI now sits at ~$852 billion and the company recently completed restructuring with a for-profit entity reporting into a nonprofit foundation.
Now, with the trial, Elon is saying Altman, Brockman, and OpenAI breached the founding charitable trust and agreement by turning it into a “wealth machine” that prioritizes profits and insiders over the original mission. He claims they deceived him about their plans...
This lawsuit was originally filed in November 2024, was withdrawn, and then revived in early 2026. And just this Friday, April 24, Elon voluntarily dropped the fraud claims to “streamline” the case and keep the jury focused on the mission issue... proceeding on breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment.
This is what Elon is looking to get back from Sam and OpenAI:
a/ substantial damages, with stakes in the $100B+ range, with many reports saying it's in the range of ~$134B and the winnings will be given to the nonprofit/charity arm and will NOT benefit Elon personally
b/ possible unwinding/restructuring to restore the original nonprofit mission
c/ leadership changes (e.g., getting rid of Altman/Brockman from key roles).
On the other side, OpenAI is claiming:
a/ Elon knew about and once supported commercialization steps, saying he even explored merging with Tesla or gaining control himself
b/ OpenAI calls the suit competitive sabotage from rival Elon's company xAI and says this is driven by jealousy over OpenAI’s success
This is SUCH an important trial in the world of AI... people may not fully understand.
The reason is bc Elon has repeatedly warned that profit-driven, closed-source AGI is very dangerous. This is his chance to enforce the original “benefit humanity” mission he helped create and walked away from in 2018. A big win will hurt OpenAI’s valuation, upcoming IPO plans, Microsoft partnership, and market dominance/customer perspective of the company... and this will also force real changes in how the world’s leading AI lab operates, influencing the entire AI race and future regulations.
For me, Sam Altman straight up CANNOT be trusted with the future of AGI, and this trial proves why Elon was right to fight it. This is the same guy who got fired by his own board in 2023 for not being “consistently candid,” then crawled back in and turned the nonprofit “open for humanity” promise into a closed-source, Microsoft-bankrolled profit machine worth hundreds of billions. Elon was the one who put up the early cash and vision to keep AI safe and beneficial for all of us... not to create a trillion-dollar insider club. If Altman gets away with rewriting the rules after the fact, it sets a dangerous precedent that mission-driven tech is just marketing fluff. I believe Elon isn’t doing this for ego or rivalry... he’s really doing it bc someone has to hold the line before profit-over-people AGI becomes unstoppable. This one’s personal for the man who actually wants to understand the universe instead of just cashing in on it. Humanity needs Elon to win.
And that's who I'm rooting for!

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Black Woman in Tech of the Week Amanda Obidike 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Data scientist. Robotics expert. Policy influencer.
From shaping STEM policy to advancing AI globally, she’s transforming the future of education & tech.
Representation is impact 💛
#blackwomenintech #womenintech

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Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.
In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.
AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.
We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.
We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
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As we celebrate Christmas, our Chairman & CEO reminds us that every locally made vehicle supports thousands of Nigerian families and Economic Development . 🎄🚗
Here’s a message of gratitude, growth, and belief in Nigerian manufacturing.
#InnosonMotors #IVM #MerryChristmas
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@manmustbeman @AfamDeluxo Absolutely!
There were so many termination of research grants, funding related to women's, feminist, DEI and gender-inclusive/ studies as part of a broader effort to eliminate what they identify as "woke gender ideology.
Running to over $300M? Not too sure of the estimate.
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@AfamDeluxo I may be wrong, but I believe the idea was being funded. Trump cut the funding, so it's only natural for it to die. Just my opinion
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@The_UnrealG @Being_Adaa It seems you are a natural debtor, because what is this take?
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@Being_Adaa Abegi! He tried to get her arrested and ruin her life. Owing him is not a crime, there is nothing he can do as long as she abides by the payment agreement.
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