“2017 was a hard year, and we’ve made mistakes.”

Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI On the stand for a second day, Musk is still aiming to establish his importance at OpenAI. We’re seeing emails from Ilya Sutskever and Greg Brockman in which they lavish praise on Musk. From Sutskever, for instance: “I enjoy working together. You quickly pushed me out of my academic comfort zone. With time I grew to appreciate the vast depth of your strategic Insight… It helps that we have the most overwhelmingly competent person in the world helping us.” Brockman comments about “mistakes” being made in the “hard year” of 2017 and also gets effusive: “In every meeting with you I continue to learn, grow and see the world in a new way. I particularly admire your clarity of purpose… and that you stick to what’s right rather than what’s easy.” A free daily digest of the news that matters most.