countered<\/a> that these topics are relevant and speak to Musk\u2019s \u201cbias and credibility.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cMusk\u2019s activities and state of mind during these discussions is squarely at issue,\u201d OpenAI\u2019s team argued, while noting that Musk has not denied allegations that drug use may have damaged his memories of events.<\/p>\n
Musk has claimed that OpenAI only brings up Trump to sway jurors who perhaps are Democrats or dislike the president. But his ties to Trump are particularly relevant, OpenAI argued, because Musk supposedly used his power as an advisor to influence the White House on OpenAI contracts.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt deposition, Musk testified that, while he served as a \u2018special government employee\u2019 he \u2018complained to White House officials\u2019 about OpenAI\u2019s \u2018Stargate\u2019 project to benefit his own AI company, xAI,\u201d OpenAI argued. \u201cEvidence that Musk used his government position to benefit his company at OpenAI\u2019s expense is relevant to Musk\u2019s bias and motive and thus to his overall credibility.\u201d<\/p>\n
The judge seems to agree with OpenAI that some of that context is relevant. During Musk\u2019s time on the stand, she allowed for discussion of AI safety and Trump without the jury present, The Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n
Importantly, the judge will make the final call in both phases of litigation, with the jury\u2019s opinion in the first phase underway now considered advisory.<\/p>\n
Whether Musk blew it on the stand has yet to be seen, as the trial continues. On the final day of questioning, Musk\u2019s attorney got a chance to make up for any harm to his credibility by asking a few more questions that NYT reported offered Musk the opportunity \u201ccome off as more personable and comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Musk may still be called to testify further over the next three weeks, NYT reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAbsolutely none of Musk\u2019s political activity relates to any fact that \u2018is of consequence in determining the action,\u2019\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-639724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}