Daring Fireball

Cade Metz and Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times (gift link):
A nine-person jury found that Elon Musk did not bring his lawsuitagainst OpenAI and Sam Altman until after the expiration of thethree-year statute of limitations.
Mr. Musk filed his suit against the $730 billion artificialintelligence start-up in the summer of 2024, but the jury foundthat he was aware of the behavior discussed in his complaintagainst OpenAI as far back as 2021....

Here’s a great take from last month re: the Cook/Ternus transition, from Om Malik:
When he took over from Steve Jobs in August 2011, Apple’s marketcapitalization was around $350 billion. As of this morning, itsits near $4 trillion. That is more than a 1,000 percent increase.Revenue went from $108 billion in fiscal 2011 to over $41...

While I’m linking to pieces on Apple’s CEO transition, here’s an annoying tidbit from Tripp Mickle and Karl Russell’s piece for The New York Times, under the headline “Tim Cook Was Very, Very Good at Making Money” (gift link):
Even though it has largely missed out on the artificialintelligence boom now lifting the sales of its technology peers,the company’s profits and stock value continue to grow....

Simultaneously audacious and humble, a combination that epitomizes Ted Turner’s entire life. (Shades, too, of Walt Disney’s apartment above the fire department at Disneyland.)
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