The Showdown Between Elon Musk and Sam Altman

Lauren Goode: Sam said that? Zoë Schiffer: To his employees. Lauren Goode: Interesting. Michael Calore: He also came out on X and said something about, "I wish he would compete." Zoë Schiffer: Oh, yeah. He was like, "I wish he would compete in the marketplace, not in the courtroom." Lauren Goode: Yeah. Sam said in a Bloomberg News interview, "I wish he would just compete by building a better product. Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity." Shots fired. And he said he didn't think that he was a happy person. Zoë Schiffer: Oh my gosh. Is Sam Altman trying to compete to write the next Elon Musk biography? This feels like some Walter Isaacson level psychology. Lauren Goode: I don't know. Zoe, I have to say, every time I see something like this breaking in the news, these two guys fighting something with OpenAI, I quite literally hear your voice in my head from one of our earlier episodes going, "Messy, messy, messy." Zoë Schiffer: It is. It is so messy. I really ... Read full article.