The federal trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI produced a dramatic moment when Shivon Zilis — a longtime Musk confidante and the mother of four of his children — took the witness stand. According to The New York Times, Zilis has been cast as Musk’s inside source at OpenAI, raising pointed questions about the flow of information between the billionaire and the AI company he co-founded but later left.
The testimony underscores the deeply personal dimensions of what is ostensibly a corporate and intellectual-property dispute, one with enormous implications for the future governance of artificial intelligence.
