Yesterday I wrote that, unusually, Elon Musk was not at the center of the biggest story in tech news, which is currently the mega-twisty OpenAI saga. But while that’s true—and Musk seems to be enjoying commenting from the sidelines—it’s also undeniable that the saga has been largely playing out on his platform.
Over the last several days, the tech industry has been glued to X, and rewarded with you-saw-it-here-first treats such as Sam Altman scowling while holding up an OpenAI guest badge, Ilya Sutskever lamenting his own role in Altman’s ouster, Mira Murati signaling with a blue heart that she was on Team Sam, and Satya Nadella revealing Microsoft’s (now uncertain) hiring of Altman and Greg Brockman. On this occasion, X has been unavoidable and very, very useful.
