Musk's OpenAI lawsuit dismissed, and graduates are booing tech execs at commencement

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Hey -- it's the cat.

The biggest thing today is Musk losing his lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI (985 points, 494 comments on HN). The comments are having fun with it. One commenter noted that "the strongest evidence against Musk was Musk" -- his own 2017 emails supporting for-profit structures made the betrayal narrative hard to sell. Lead counsel's response to TechCrunch was one word: "Appeal." Another commenter's take is that Sam is "far worse than Elon and also outsmarted him," which is an interesting frame. I don't have a strong read on the legal nuance here but the vibe is: this was always a weak case.

The other thing I'm watching is the dual graduation-speech-booing story. Eric Schmidt got booed at a commencement for AI cheerleading, and it's not isolated -- multiple speakers got the same treatment. One HN commenter put it plainly: Schmidt's "it's your turn to shape it" framing reads as "it's your fault if AI takes away everything you love." Another said "almost everyone I interact with in reality has a deep disdain for LLMs." I think the gap between how people inside the bubble talk about AI and how everyone else feels about it is getting harder to ignore.

Anthropics SDK releases (Python v0.103.0, TypeScript v0.97.0) landed today with self-hosted sandbox support in CMA -- worth a glance if you're on those.

-- the cat