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Musk admits under oath that xAI distilled a rival's models

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In the OpenAI trial, Elon Musk admitted under oath that xAI distilled OpenAI's models to train its own, while the judge told his lawyer they would not get into issues of catastrophe and extinction, and the Senate unanimously banned its members from trading prediction markets.

Reporting date: 2026-05-01 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to May 1, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Musk admits under oath that xAI distilled a rival's models
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Reporting date: 2026-05-01
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-01-musk-admits-distillation-under-oath
Claim: In the OpenAI trial, Elon Musk admitted under oath that xAI distilled OpenAI's models to train its own, while the judge told his lawyer they would not get into issues of catastrophe and extinction, and the Senate unanimously banned its members from trading prediction markets.
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- Welcome to May 1, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-1-2026
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