Keechin Goh

@Ric_RTP AI Labs Leadership 2026

In 19 days, a jury in Oakland is going to decide whether the entire legal foundation of the AI industry is built on fraud. Everyone thinks the Musk vs Altman lawsuit is a billionaire grudge match. Two egos, one grudge, a $150 billion damages number designed for headlines. Easy to dismiss. Easy to scroll past. That's exactly what Altman wants you to think. Because what's actually on trial on April 27 is something much BIGGER than Elon's hurt feelings... A jury is going to decide whether you can legally take billions of dollars in nonprofit donations, use them to build the most valuable technology in human history, and then quietly convert that nonprofit into a for-profit company worth $850 billion. If the answer is no, the entire AI industry has a problem. Because OpenAI is not the only company that did this: Anthropic was founded by OpenAI defectors using the same nonprofit-first mission language. xAI pitches itself as building AI "for humanity." Every frontier lab has used the moral cover of "we're doing this for the good of the world" to attract talent, capital, and regulatory goodwill they would have never gotten otherwise. An Elon win doesn't just touch OpenAI. It creates a legal precedent that every AI company built on a nonprofit or public benefit promise becomes vulnerable to shareholder and donor clawback suits. That's why this case matters. And that's why Altman is panicking. Just look at what he did this week: Elon filed a motion demanding the court remove Altman and Brockman from their roles and FORCE OpenAI to return to its nonprofit origins. Then he amended the suit to say if he wins the $150 billion, all of it goes to OpenAI's charity arm. Not him. Zero dollars to Elon personally. That amendment was surgical. It stripped Altman of his entire public defense. He can no longer claim this is about Elon's ego or Elon's bank account. Elon is now legally on record saying he just wants the mission back. OpenAI's response was to panic-write a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general asking them to investigate Elon for "anti-competitive behavior." Their strategy chief publicly accused Elon of coordinating attacks with Mark Zuckerberg. They called the lawsuit "harassment driven by ego and jealousy." That's NOT the response of a company that thinks it's going to win. Real companies with real defenses don't ask the government to silence the person suing them 3 weeks before trial. They let the evidence speak. OpenAI is scrambling because they know what's in discovery. Elon's team has been building this case for two years. Emails, board minutes, internal conversations about the conversion. The kind of paper trail that juries understand and executives can't explain away. And the timing couldn't be worse... OpenAI is trying to IPO at $852 billion. They just raised $122 billion. Microsoft has $135 billion of exposure to them. A jury verdict that even partially sides with Elon in late April or May would crater the entire IPO runway and send shockwaves through every major AI investor on Earth. This is why Altman spent the last 2 weeks doing press tours and policy blueprints and "super intelligence agendas" aimed at Washington. He's trying to REFRAME himself as the responsible statesman of AI right before a jury decides if he's a con artist. Most people will watch this trial start and think it's celebrity drama. The smart money is watching it and realizing that the legal foundation of the AI boom is about to be tested in court for the first time EVER. And if that foundation cracks, everything built on top of it is at risk.

@claudeai Meanwhile, a founder somewhere writing board memo for their 12th pivot because Anthropic just killed their last product

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@ivanburazin > Got Caught > Founder's Reaction > "Nothing's Wrong, Everyone is Doing This"

Delve has been on a generational run! - Got into YC - Onboarded Lovable, Cluely, and other unsuspecting companies - Faked hundreds of SOC 2 & ISO 27001 audits - Spammed wall of love with logos they "helped their customers close" - Got caught - Made employees delete all the old posts - Put out an explanation with replies turned off - Stole a fellow YC company's IP (which was open source) - Removed attribution during due diligence for their Series A - Rebadged it as a standalone product - Sold it to Brex, Anthropic, Gusto, Notion (one deal was $50k+) - Got caught again What a shitshow.

@_robyn_smith No NIMBYs, no 10-year environmental impact study on whether the vacuum of space is disrupting or displacing local asteroids

Why does it cost less to build a base on the moon than high speed rail from sf to la

🚨NEWS: Cursor’s $50B “in-house model” is literally Kimi K2.5 with RL on top. Got caught in 24 hours >be Moonshot AI >spend hundreds of millions training Kimi K2.5 >1 trillion parameters, 15 trillion tokens, agent swarm architecture >beat GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 on real benchmarks >open-source it because you believe in the ecosystem >one condition: display “Kimi K2.5” if you make over $20M/month from it >Cursor takes the model >runs RL on coding tasks >ships it March 19 as “Composer 2” >blog post: “continued pretraining + scaled reinforcement learning” >zero mention of Kimi K2.5 >“our in-house models generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world” >publishes benchmark chart >Composer 2 against Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4 >uses the chart to justify raising at $50 billion! >less than 24 hours later >kimi dev intercepts the API response >model ID: kimi-k2p5-rl-0317-s515-fast >they didn’t even rename it >Moonshot head of pretraining runs tokenizer test >confirms: identical to Kimi’s tokenizer >publicly tags Cursor’s co-founder: “why aren’t you respecting our license?” >two more Moonshot employees post confirmations >all three posts deleted within hours >legal is now involved >but it gets worse >Cursor had Kimi K2.5 listed as a FREE model in their UI just weeks ago >users were openly using it >Feb 9: “K2.5 was in my model list. I updated and it vanished” >it vanished because Cursor pulled it from the picker, and relaunched it as their own model >Moonshot valuation: $4.3B >Cursor valuation: $50B Absolute state of Cursor.

The GOAT is back 🫡

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@cgtwts aite - hope humanity is ready for the brain-on-a-roomba arc

Let me explain what just happened, because I don’t think people realize how INSANE this is. > Cortical Labs put 200,000 real human brain cells onto a silicon chip and trained them to play Doom in just one week. > Each CL1 system costs $35,000. > A rack of 30 units consumes only 850–1,000 watts combined. > The human brain operates on 20 watts. > Large AI training clusters burn through megawatts. >Backed by In-Q-Tel. 115 units began shipping in 2025. > Cortical Labs is selling “Wetware as a Service” through Cortical Cloud, letting developers deploy code remotely to living human neurons with no lab required, > priced like a software subscription but powered by real brain cells grown from adult skin and blood samples. > it isn’t about gaming, it’s about biological computing that could eventually outperform traditional silicon in energy efficiency and adaptability. This is getting really scary and we’re still at the very beginning.

Everyone is racing to build bigger AI clusters. The weirder answer may be smaller: biological computers powering autonomous agents on sugar and less than 1000W. The future might literally be a brain in a pizza box.

True product-market-fit is when your users are forced to touch grass or play league when your services are down.

@anothercohen Have you considered bringing this idea to @AnthropicAI?

I was fired from Block today. I was the PM in charge of changing the default tip option on the Square terminal to start at 40%. Jack replaced me with an AI agent that decides which tip amount to show based on your age, weight, and race. If anyone is hiring product managers, please let me know!

@kush07_ You already know whats gonna be shown during WWDC 2038

can apple copy this immediately so I never have to switch to a samsung

“Its too horizontal. Too crowded" "Its too vertical, its niched" Thought I wandered into a modern art exhibition. Turns out it’s just a VC mixer.

@PopBase Im calling it - someone will claude code this widget for $0.99 on playstore

New look at the new privacy display feature on Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra.

@Sizhe_bitcat Bro's the reason this is happening

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@SyntheticPixel @NoahKingJr Introducing rentahuman.ai where making a baby is two API calls away

@NoahKingJr Making babies

Name a job that AI can’t steal

@trikcode > writing code feels sluggish again > start typing to your intern "You are a helpful assistant .. "

> you woke up > it was all a dream > no chatgpt > no claude code > vibe coding isn’t invented at all > you have to type code manually > read documentation for hours it's all over

@codyplof Its the modern day tamagotchi. Except it costs $100/m and the constant adding of /skills whenever I see one on X

Just realized why I’m so addicted to Claude Code. It’s literally a video game for adults. You get stuck on a level, try everything you can to beat it, and eventually break through. And every level you stack skills and get stronger.