
The jury, a motley crew of bewildered souls, sat there like grapes waiting to be crushed under the weight of his words. Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX chieftain, had spoken these heresy during his civil trial against OpenAI, a drama as tangled as a ball of yarn in a kitten’s paws. According to New York Times scribe Mike Isaac, the remark came when Musk was prodded about a 2018 OpenAI scheme to raise funds through an initial coin offering (ICO). Ah, the ICO-a relic of a time when hope and greed danced hand in hand, and everyone thought they could mint gold from thin air.