Elon Musk accused of making up math to squeeze $134B from OpenAI, Microsoft

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/elon-musk-accused-of-making-up-math-to-squeeze-134b-from-openai-microsoft/

27 Comments

  1. ChampionshipComplex on

    Trump is what happens when a moron has too much power, Musk is what happens when a moron has too much money

  2. Good business leaders would get this shit in writing beforehand, not doing napkin math in a Tesla diner.

  3. I’m like 60% sure math already existed, but leave it to Elon to take credit. I’ll see myself out.

  4. That-Guava-9404 on

    The only real problem here is that when things inevitably come crashing down the losses are socialized ofc, and those at the bottom of the pyramid suffer most. The vampires at the top just never lose.

  5. It all comes down to greed. He probably has his sights set on being the first Trillionaire and this would put hit much closer to that goal. Of course a realistic valuation of Telsa would wipe out a fair chunk of his wealth.

  6. southflhitnrun on

    I absolutely LOVE how they keep gaslighting us into thinking anyone who has become a billionaire is playing by the rules…and only occasionally get caught “cheating” the system.

  7. Fuck all of these assholes. I’m so sick of being led by money hungry nepo babies who all have little dick syndrome.

  8. slappingdragon on

    So a lifelong poser who isn’t really an expert on math or science is accused of making stuff up to scam people. Are people are expected to say, “That’s not the Elon I know.” Yeah no.

  9. Why stop now – they’re starting to eat their own – good for them. We get slower LLM’s they and their techbro universe collapse ,and everyone else is left to pick up the pieces.

  10. When he claimed he could build an underwater train that would carry people from the UK to the U.S. in one hour, for $6 billion, he should have just burst into flames. Not his pants but his entire body. The train would have to travel over 2,000 miles per hour.

    Just running a power cable across the Atlantic costs billions.

  11. I like how they apparently discounted the value of the work of literally everyone except Musk. All the scientists and engineers that have actually built the software from the ground up apparently contributed zero to the net value of OpenAI.

    He must be the biggest narcissist alive to think that.