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Bill Ackman is a billionaire hedge fund manager. NYSE Bill Ackman announced a new investment in Microsoft. The billionaire investor said both his hedge fund and new closed-end fund had taken positions. Ackman said Microsoft's ownership of M365 and Azure as key reasons why he's bullish on the stock. Bill Ackman is betting big on Microsoft's success in the AI era. "In our 13F which we will file later today, we will disclose a new position in Microsoft, a company we have followed for many years now offered at a highly compelling valuation," the billionaire investor wrote in an early-morning X post on Friday. "While $PSUS will not be filing a 13F tomorrow, it has also recently made $MFST a core holding," he added. Ackman's Pershing Square hedge fund is set to disclose its US stock holdings as of March 31 later today, in an SEC filing known as a "13F." He listed Pershing Square USA, a closed-end fund marketed toward retail investors, on the New York Stock Exchange in late April. Ackman introduced the new position on X by saying his team have "found occasional opportunities to acquire some of the most dominant long-term compounding franchises at attractive valuations." He gave Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta as examples in recent years. Ackman explained his Microsoft wager by pointing to its ownership of "two of the most valuable franchises in enterprise technology"," namely M365 —a software suite that includes Word, Excel and Powerpoint — and Azure, its cloud platform which is already playing a key role in powering the AI boom. He also wrote that Microsoft's valuation "does not reflect the value of Microsoft's approximately 27% economic interest in OpenAI, which would represent approximately $200 billion, or 7% of Microsoft's market capitalization, at OpenAI's most recent funding round valuation." Read the original article on Business Insider

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Dan Diasio said the lines between engineering roles are blurring. EY Data, software, and AI engineering roles used to be "completely different professions," said EY's Dan Diasio. The work overlaps much more now, Diasio said, as engineers are able build more quickly. The consulting giant is also reshaping its hiring strategy for technical workers in the AI era. Software engineering roles aren't going away anytime soon — but they are converging. At least that's the case at the Big Four firm EY, according to Dan Diasio, global consulting AI leader. Diasio said software engineers are able to accomplish and build a lot more quickly than they were previously. The shift has pushed the consulting giant to move beyond traditional software engineering lifecycles and toward product development lifecycles. That means training engineers to operate more like end-to-end product builders rather than pure coders. Diasio told Business Insider that roles that were once split across data engineering, software engineering, and AI engineering are now overlapping. Those used to be three "completely different professions," Diasio, who is also EY's Americas consulting CTO. While the roles still exist as separate titles today, the work is converging, he said. In addition to the skillsets overlapping more than in the past, Diasio said that the company is also shifting its expectations of engineer hires to work across data, software, and AI. "The role titles will catch up," Diasio added in an email. "We've already started moving our training and talent development towards this product-first view." Part of the shift stems from AI speeding up the product lifecycle, he said. Instead of starting with a requirements document generated by AI, passing it to a design plan generated by AI, and then to a team that builds and codes the software, that process is being streamlined, Diasio said. That's all happening "much faster than we would have been able to do it previously," Diasio said. Diasio is describing a shift that has swept through the software engineering industry since late 2025, when improvements to AI coding models like Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex automated most coding work. A number of engineers have told Business Insider that they haven't touched code directly since December. Shifts in hiring technical talent Amid this transformative moment for engineering, EY is reshaping its hiring strategy for technical workers. "We're no longer just evaluating someone's coding skills — that floor has risen. Instead, we are looking for people that break through the ceiling," Diasio added. That means top engineers are inquiring more about intent during interviews, the AI leader said. For example, EY engineers may ask a candidate why they made specific design decisions, what outcome they were solving, and how that work fits into a product. Diasio said that "well-crafted intent, architecture thinking, and scalability" are the factors separating top talent now. He emphasized the importance of top engineers being involved in the hiring process. "A talent hires A talent," Diasio said. This comes at a time when the consulting giant is broadly reevaluating its talent strategy, from onboarding to promotions. EY's talent chief recently said that AI is making career paths more fluid. The firm now requires all early-career applicants to complete skills-based assessments and is seeking candidates who can evolve with the technology, Ginnie Carlier, EY Americas' chief talent and culture officer, previously told Business Insider. Diasio said EY is also increasingly prioritizing managerial skills in hires across the firm's business and technology sectors. That's a departure from the previous model in professional services firms, where junior workers primarily executed their own tasks until taking on supervisory roles, he said. Many entry-level hires are now expected to delegate and manage workflows across AI tools. As AI becomes more integrated into day-to-day operations, Diasio said employees need to think more like managers earlier in their careers. Diasio said the company is allocating more training in that area. "We are preparing for our new hires to be Day One managers," he wrote. Read the original article on Business Insider

Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI AI is forcing the consulting industry to reinvent itself. The biggest firms are racing to weave the technology into nearly every facet of their businesses — from how consultants execute client projects to how employees are trained, promoted, and measured. McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PwC, and IBM Consulting are all now hiring more technical talent, building AI tools and AI agents, and pushing staff to use them in their day-to-day work. Business Insider has closely covered how the consulting industry is changing. See our stories below on how AI is reshaping the work, and the firms and startups leading the shift. How the work of consultants is changing AI is changing not only how consultants advise clients, but also who does that work. Consulting firms are now promoting a new class of so-called "forward-deployed engineers" — employees who work directly with clients to customize AI tools, connect them to company data, and turn them into products that solve specific business problems. In some sense, they are becoming the new consultants: part engineer, part strategist, and part translator between AI systems and the companies trying to use them. The rise of AI agents AI agents are changing the structure of consulting work itself. Firms are using them to automate rote tasks, shrink project teams, and shift more work to smaller groups of humans supervising networks of digital coworkers. At BCG, IBM, McKinsey, and elsewhere, consultants are being asked not just to use AI tools but to build, manage, and oversee agents that could reshape the traditional consulting hierarchy. The new age of consulting AI is bringing consulting and Silicon Valley closer together — and even, at times, blurring the line between them. Big firms are trying to become more like tech companies, building software, hiring engineers, and turning their expertise into products. At the same time, AI startups are coming for consulting's core business, offering faster, cheaper versions of strategy work, research, and analysis. The result is a new competitive landscape where McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, and the Big Four are both cozying up with tech companies and defending themselves against them. Read the original article on Business Insider

Elon Musk's Starlink internet is being installed across scores of airlines, but not Delta. Bloomberg/Getty Images Delta Air Lines is one of few carriers opting against installing Starlink internet on its planes. The airline instead tapped Amazon LEO in March to become its in-flight WiFi provider. Elon Musk hit out at Delta's choice on X, saying it would be "painful, difficult and expensive." Elon Musk doesn't seem pleased with Delta Air Lines choosing a rival internet provider to Starlink. Dozens of airlines around the world have struck deals with Starlink to give passengers free, high-speed WiFi. It connects to a constellation of over 10,000 satellites, helping provide connectivity in remote areas, such as over the ocean. However, Delta instead tapped Amazon Leo in March to become its in-flight WiFi provider. Amazon's service has launched about 300 satellites so far. On Wednesday, Musk replied to an X post that suggested Delta chose Amazon because it wanted customers to connect via its own Delta Sync portal. "SpaceX requires that there be no annoying 'portal' to use Starlink," Musk posted. "Starlink WiFi must just work effortlessly every time, as though you were at home." "Delta wanted to make it painful, difficult and expensive for their customers. Hard to see how that is a winning strategy," he added. A Delta spokesperson told Business Insider that "the assertion in question is not accurate." The airline said it chose Amazon's Leo connectivity service over Starlink for "several reasons," including the potential for a "broader partnership" beyond just in-flight WiFi. It added that Amazon met Delta's technical requirements and shared its vision for the "next era of connected travel," while adding that Delta's strategy is to equip different aircraft with the technology that best fits each fleet. Delta also clarified that passengers would still have been able to access the Delta Sync portal via a SkyMiles login. To the last point, while Starlink has pushed for a more seamless in-flight WiFi experience with minimal friction between passengers and the web, airlines using the service still route access through their own branded systems. United Airlines' Starlink access, for example, is tied to its MileagePlus platform — with similar setups at Alaska Airlines and Qatar Airways. Delta isn't saying its portal was an obstacle. It seems to want a deeper level of control over the ecosystem surrounding onboard internet than SpaceX may have preferred. SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. Late on Thursday, responding to Delta's comments, Musk posted on X: "They will lose customers over this." Qatar has faced similar decisions in its Starlink strategy. Xia Cai, Qatar Airways' SVP of product development and design, talked at a 2024 APEX event about the airline's approach to customer engagement through its Starlink connectivity. "There has to be a connection. Is it a transient connection? Or is it actually something that you're going to build to create an experience, which Delta has done really well on their Sync platform?" Cai said, the aviation website Paxex.Aero reported. "How do you engage [with passengers]?" United is actively installing SpaceX technology and expects the rollout to be completed by the end of 2027. Delta's planned next-generation connectivity project with Amazon's Kuiper network is not expected to begin until 2028. It isn't the first time this year that Musk has taken umbrage with an airline. In January, Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said he wasn't interested in Starlink, suggesting that installing the terminals on airplane fuselages would increase drag and, in turn, fuel costs. Musk and O'Leary then engaged in a dayslong war of words, including Musk suggesting he could buy Ryanair, and calling for O'Leary's firing. Read the original article on Business Insider

Shanon Morris. Stacy Foster Shanon Morris, a Navy veteran, co-founded Trimester Abroad with her husband to aid traveling parents. After being laid off by Google, Morris transitioned to entrepreneurship in the travel industry. Trimester Abroad aims to improve travel experiences for new and expecting parents globally. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Shanon Morris, a 34-year-old entrepreneur in Ithaca, New York. It's been edited for length and clarity. I'm a Navy veteran, Marine Corps spouse, and the CEO of Trimester Abroad, where I develop solutions that elevate the travel and hospitality experience for new and expecting parents. I'm also in a master's program in hospitality management at Cornell. I started my career as a surface warfare officer and public affairs officer in the US Navy. I was medically separated from the Navy due to a car accident in 2018. For the next year, I worked as a cyber intelligence team lead at Noblis. Between July 2019 and May 2021, I served as a communications and marketing strategy consultant at Accenture Interactive. I started working at Google in May 2021, where I held several roles, including sales development manager, strategic communications program manager, and veteran hiring lead, and served as the communications lead for Google's global Veteran Network. Since 2023, I've co-founded and now serve as CEO of Trimester Abroad, where I lead branding, go-to-market strategy, partnership development, PR, and business operations across multiple ventures. One morning in March 2023, at 6 a.m., I got laid off from Google I opened my laptop to troubleshoot a new work phone, only to see my termination notice. One minute, I was leading Google's veteran hiring program; the next, I was in my parents' kitchen with my new husband, Matthew, toasting to unemployment. Matthew and I were preparing for him to be either medically separated after a motorcycle accident or deploy again. I was stressed, working two full-time roles and trying to get pregnant. Losing my job was a shock, but also a relief. On Mother's Day, I found out I was pregnant Two weeks later, Matthew received a call informing him he'd been separated from the Marine Corps. We went from DINKs with two six-figure salaries to dual-unemployed with a baby on the way in six months. Luckily, we were aligned on money, values, and risk tolerance, and our different investing styles diversified our portfolio. Severance, savings, investments, real estate, unemployment insurance, and my VA disability allowance bought us time. Around that time, my friend Gaby became our unofficial birth guru After three extreme births, she was the first to tell me hospitals weren't the only place to give birth. With our jobs gone, our next mission became figuring out how to bring our daughter into the world safely and intentionally. We threw a mattress in the truck and drove 10,000 miles around North America, but it wasn't enough. With nothing tying us down, we sold the house and the vehicles. Europe was where our research on birthing options led us: birth centers, home births, midwives, and care models that didn't feel industrialized. Ultimately, we were on a too-cramped timeline, so we returned home. We found a homebirth midwife group, and I gave birth in an apartment in Chicago. We began traveling again when our daughter was around six months old. We've now traveled to 28 countries as a family Our first trip was in August 2023, when I found out a DJ I liked was performing in Aalborg, Denmark. I was around four months pregnant. After that, we mostly booked next-day flights, dodged wildfires in Italy and Greece, and coordinated loosely around military friends' travel and a shooting competition. Our daughter is almost two, and our second baby will arrive soon. Traveling with a baby is easier than people think. In cities, you can buy everything you need. Diapers are often cheaper abroad. Public transit in places like Taiwan is spotless. Dubai has rideshares with car seats. Breastfeeding eliminates half the packing list. Emotionally, the hardest part was setting boundaries, like when strangers approached her to interact. Luxury hotels were another surprise. Even ultra-luxury brands assume a kids club solves everything, yet most don't allow children under three or four, even when accompanied by a parent. We want intentionally designed spaces for infants and toddlers. Almost no one is designing for families with kids under four, even though it's the easiest age to travel. That gap is what led to Trimester Abroad. I realized the industry still treats pregnancy and early parenthood like a travel dead zone Many hotels don't offer pregnancy/body pillows or prenatal massages. I've requested the same things multiple times, yet the experience is often that pregnant and/or breastfeeding women get served alcohol as welcome gifts or celebratory amenities. There's no consent training. Some hotel staff will pick up your kids or poke their bellies without asking parents. When catering to American travelers, this can ruin an experience. Trimester Abroad aims to make travel easier for new and expecting parents. We consult for hotels, airlines, and tourism boards, audit properties, and are building the first Michelin-style rating system for pregnancy and early parenthood. We're also training travel advisors. This summer, we plan to build out the Trimester Abroad app, an AI-powered travel intelligence platform. Going from a six-figure Google salary to self-employment was the wild west In entrepreneurship, there's no guaranteed paycheck. Our income fluctuates, and we reinvest almost everything. Profit is one to two years away, so we're still living off our investments. Matthew is a full-time MBA student, and he works on Trimester Abroad with me as my VP of strategic partnerships. Our story proves that military talent, parenthood, and entrepreneurship aren't mutually exclusive. Traveling while pregnant or with a baby is completely doable when you design around your needs. If I hadn't gotten laid off, I probably would have stayed at Google I was in a role helping veterans and military spouses (my people) transition into the civilian world without sacrificing their pay or well-being. My priorities are so much different now. I recently had the opportunity to visit the newest Google office in New York City for a trek I led as part of my master's program. Even with all the free snacks, benefits, and creature comforts, I can't see myself going back. Read the original article on Business Insider

Viewers gave the three humanoids sorting packages names: Bob, Frank and Gary. X Figure AI's humanoids drew over 3 million views on X as it sorted packages on a viral livestream. CEO Brett Adcock said the robots worked autonomously with zero failures for 24 hours. One robotics expert said the demo was impressive, but the humanoids are not deployment-ready. Silicon Valley's hottest livestream this week is a humanoid robot clocking in for a warehouse shift. It began Wednesday, when Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock set out to prove to skeptics that his robots could complete an eight-hour stretch of autonomous labor. Within hours, Figure AI had a film crew at its San Jose headquarters and was streaming a humanoid doing one of the dullest tasks imaginable: sorting packages. The internet was captivated. Millions tuned in to watch the robot pick up small packages and place them on a conveyor belt with the barcode facing down. Two humanoids stood on chargers in the background, ready to sub in when the working robot ran low on battery. One viewer called the feed "surprisingly addicting" and asked for a 24/7 livestream, while investor Jason Calacanis wrote that "robotic ASMR is bizarrely comforting." As the livestream climbed past 1.5 million views on X over its first eight hours, some viewers gave the three robots names: Bob, Frank, and Gary. Figure AI reached its goal of running the robot for eight hours with "zero failures," Adcock said, and decided to keep going. By the 24-hour mark on Thursday morning, the humanoids had sorted more than 30,000 packages, with more than 3 million cumulative views. The viral stream is more than a robotics stunt. For Figure AI, a startup valued near $40 billion, it is a public audition for a future in which humanoids can work long shifts in warehouses, factories, and eventually homes. The demo gave investors and potential customers a rare look at whether the company's robots can perform repetitive labor reliably. It also exposed the gap between spectacle and commercial readiness: Figure's humanoids may be getting closer to human speed, but experts say they still have a long way to go before they can handle the messy reality of a logistics center. 'A whole new economy' Many tasks that feel mindless to humans remain challenging for robots, requiring dexterity, perception, balance, and judgment people barely notice themselves using. That is part of what makes videos of humanoids doing routine work so compelling. Last week, Figure AI released a video of two of its humanoids making a bed together, while French startup Genesis AI, backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, showed a robot cracking an egg and playing the piano. Among the viewers of this week's livestream were Figure investors and board members Jesse Coors-Blankenship and Gregg Hill of Parkway Venture Capital, who said they were watching from their New York office and planned to celebrate the milestone later. Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02 https://t.co/IdZR0T1F5I — Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) May 13, 2026 Coors-Blankenship said the conveyor belt was a large loop, with the same packages cycling through repeatedly. The point, he said, was to show potential customers that Figure AI's humanoids can work reliably for long stretches, including 24-hour shifts. "It's just something that's never been done before, except for maybe in a movie," Coors-Blankenship said. "It's so captivating because everyone's realizing we're moving into a whole new economy." The livestream raises the stakes in the race to develop commercially useful humanoids. Figure AI faces stiff competition from Tesla, Agility Robotics, and China's Unitree. "I bet you that 50,000 of the viewers are Tesla investors," Hill said. 'More like a science project' When asked about Figure AI's livestream at an event in San Francisco on Wednesday night, Agility Robotics cofounder Jonathan Hurst replied: "Congratulations. We did that two years ago." The Oregon-based startup has deployed its humanoid robot, Digit, with customers including Amazon, Schaeffler Group, and GXO, a logistics company. Last year, Figure AI came under scrutiny after Fortune reported that Adcock appeared to overstate the company's work with its marquee customer, BMW. Adcock disputed the report, and the company has said its previous humanoid model spent 11 months at BMW's Spartanburg plant, where it ran 10-hour weekday shifts and helped produce more than 30,000 X3 vehicles. Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock is betting on a future of "general-purpose humanoids." Bloomberg/Getty Images Figure AI's livestream did not have any major glitches, but the robots did have some prolonged pauses and eccentric gestures like touching an arm to its helmet-like head. The moments fueled speculation that the humanoids were getting help from a remote human operator. Adcock stressed that the robots are fully autonomous and decide what to do based on what they see through their cameras. Adcock said that when a robot gets stuck, its AI model triggers an automatic reset, which viewers occasionally saw during the stream. And if a robot has a software or hardware issue, he added, it can autonomously leave for maintenance while another robot takes over. "We haven't had a failure yet, but statistically we probably will at some point," Adcock wrote on X. Human package sorters average about three seconds per package, according to Adcock, and Figure AI's robots are now near human parity. But roboticist Ayanna Howard, dean of Ohio State University's College of Engineering, said speed is only one measure of readiness. Howard said the livestream was impressive because the robot appeared to operate for so long without a failure. Still, she said the humanoids looked more like a "science project" than machines ready for deployment, citing accuracy issues she saw during the stream, including packages placed on the conveyor belt with the barcode facing the wrong way and one package being knocked off the belt. "It's not ready for prime time," Howard said, adding that the robot was performing only one small part of the package-sorting process. "We're a long way away from a fully autonomous humanoid in a logistics center." By Thursday evening, the livestream was still running, and the humanoids had logged 30 hours of continuous work. Adcock also introduced a new member to the robot crew: Rose. Read the original article on Business Insider

Billionaire Tim Draper said took pitches while bathing in water under 40 degrees. Vaughn Ridley/Web Summit via Sportsfile via Getty Images Tim Draper said he took "52 pitches in 52 minutes" while sitting in an ice bath below 40 degrees. "Pitching in stressful situations allows entrepreneurs to relax when they need to," Draper told Business Insider. Ice baths and cold plunges have grown in popularity among Silicon Valley leaders. The deals may be flowing, but the founders are on ice. Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper backed Tesla, Skype, and Twitch. The early investments made him billions and boosted the VC firm he founded, Draper Associates. He recently looked for his next big deal in an unusual place: an ice bath. "I took 52 pitches in 52 minutes at below 40 degrees," Draper wrote on X on Wednesday. "Welcome to my office." Draper also included a photo of the ice bath. Four people sat around the cold tub, looking directly at Draper. Floating chunks of ice surrounded them. I think I broke a record. I took 52 pitches in 52 minutes at below 40 degrees. Welcome to my office. #draperuniversity #survivaltraining pic.twitter.com/rWW2GFlTK2 — Tim Draper (@TimDraper) May 14, 2026 In an email to Business Insider, Draper wrote that the pitch session took place at an "undisclosed location where we do Draper University survival." The program trains the next generation of founders and once spawned a reality TV show. "Pitching in stressful situations allows entrepreneurs to relax when they need to," he wrote. Draper is not a frequent cold plunger, "but I am apparently good at it," he wrote. He took on the 52 pitches continuously, but wrote that things became "dicey" around the 40-minute mark. The VC hinted that some potential deals emerged from the ice bath pitches. "There are always a few that catch my imagination," he wrote. Silicon Valley is on a health kick. Many in the industry have embraced lifting weights and injecting peptides while cutting out alcohol. Why be a scrawny nerd when Mark Zuckerberg got ripped? Their embrace of frigid conditions isn't new, though. Since at least the 2010s, tech executives looking to live longer and work harder were dunking themselves in ice baths. Cold plunges have some benefits. Shocking the senses with cold temperatures can relieve joint pain, reduce inflammation, increase energy, and decrease stress. The jury's still out on whether they have any concrete benefits to healthy aging. Longevity hacks may have spread nationwide, but they're still localized in Silicon Valley, where figures like Bryan Johnson have spent millions looking for new ways to extend life. What does Draper think of the longevity movement? "I want to keep living," he wrote. "I like life." Read the original article on Business Insider

Business Insider reporter Stephen Council outside the federal courthouse in Oakland. Stephen Council/Business Insider I've reported on CEO Sam Altman since ChatGPT's release, so I was eager to see his trial testimony. The trial's stakes are sky-high for Altman as he fights to keep control of OpenAI. Altman delivered his pitch for the company, though he didn't have answers for the hardest questions. It's tricky business to define Sam Altman's "day job." He's got the basic task of overseeing OpenAI's executives and staff, as any CEO does. Work doesn't stay at the office, though. Altman has become the public face of the AI boom, responsible for selling a technology that's upending workforces, capturing markets, and costing billions of dollars to build. That's often a high-wire act, and especially so this week — he also had to sell himself. I watched Altman's testimony on Tuesday in the Oakland courtroom where, for weeks, jurors have weighed Elon Musk's arguments against those of OpenAI and Microsoft. Musk says Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman "stole" the OpenAI charity. They responded that the charity actually thrives because of the commercial moves they made. It's a high-profile, high-stakes trial, and I was keen to see how Altman would perform. Reporting on OpenAI over the last few years, I've watched him schmooze with San Franciscans, chop it up with AI boosters, and hit softball questions from Jimmy Fallon. He posts to X, joins podcasts, writes blogs — it's all part of his gig. Altman is a content creator, a CEO working to spread hype. So it was no surprise to me that Altman gave the jury an optimistic vision for both his company and for AI itself. The shocking part was how little he did to protect his own reputation. The softball questions for Sam Altman ran out Wearing a dark suit, a thin purple tie, and a slightly furrowed brow, Altman was the day's star witness. He followed OpenAI's lawyer William Savitt through anecdotes, details, and admissions for a breezy first hour of testimony. Then, as the attorney wound down his time, Savitt asked Altman about the OpenAI Foundation's work — the actual goals of the nonprofit at the center of all this legal trouble. Altman was articulate, and, as usual, forward-looking. He talked about plans to research Alzheimer's and to prepare society for economic change. He expressed hope for a better future, saying that the new tech's benefits should spread widely. He said he was still "extremely" enthusiastic about the company's remaining nonprofit oversight and got off a line about Musk trying to "kill" the very charity he was accusing Altman of "stealing." Do-gooder ideals, plus optimism about healthcare: It was a rebuttal built on Altman's practiced style of pitching AI to the general public. The cheery rapport stopped there. Musk's head lawyer, Steven Molo, then kicked off cross-examination by asking Altman whether he's "completely trustworthy." "I believe so," Altman said. The feeling in the courtroom had palpably shifted. Molo responded with a hint of incredulity, "But you don't know whether you're completely trustworthy?" "I'll just amend my answer to yes," Altman replied. Under Molo's barrage, Altman had an odd response Attorneys usually try to strip credibility from an opponent's witness. Molo continued peppering Altman with questions aimed at doing exactly that. The lawyer said Altman had repeatedly been called "deceptive," citing statements from four other witnesses: OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, former CTO Mira Murati, and former board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley. Gone was the confident, loquacious CEO. Altman deflected on allegation after allegation, often stating that he hadn't heard the testimony or didn't know specifically what had been said. Once, he made a larger rebuttal, saying there was "a breakdown in trust between me and the board and a difference — a big difference — of opinion." Then he returned to saying he hadn't heard McCauley's testimony. Finally, Molo asked, "Is it important to you to find out what's going on in this trial?" "Yes," Altman responded. "Although I also have a very busy day job and have not been able to be here every day." He added that he "certainly" cares about the trial. A jury has sat for weeks, and the stakes are huge: Musk wants Altman removed as CEO and seeks $150 billion in damages. Most people I spoke with favor OpenAI to win. Still, Altman will need his credibility for the years ahead. He stepped off the witness stand around midday, after more hammering from Molo. In the back of the courtroom, I was left thinking that the CEO could have — if only for a week — made the trial his day job. Read the original article on Business Insider

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