In my hometown of San Francisco, all eyes turned across the Bay to Oakland this week, where the long-awaited AI showdown between tech titans Elon Musk and Sam Altman finally hit the courtroom. The billionaires have been engaged in a years-long war of words over the mission and future of OpenAI, an operation the pair launched together over a decade ago—and that Altman still runs.
As illustrated by the abundant links above, Vanity Fair has been tracking the evolution of OpenAI from the start. Musk's lawyer in the case, Marc Toberoff, is on the opposite end of that spectrum, telling VF that he wasn't terribly familiar with the billionaires at the heart of the dispute, as he's spent most of his life as a film producer. If the first week of testimony is any indication, however, Toberoff is bringing a little bit of Hollywood to NorCal, as the trial is shaping up to be as cinematic as the blockbusters Toberoff has helped bring to the big screen.
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Princess Diana, King Charles, and Kate Middleton have all stayed at The Carlyle Hotel—one of the last bastions of old New York—when visiting the Big Apple. Ahead, Vanity Fair revisits all their elegant check-ins.
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The murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez is a nightmare come true—one with disturbing parallels to accused killer D4vd’s death-obsessed music.
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Money shouts, wealth whispers? Well, I yawn! VF heads to Santa Fe to find out what people with both means and personality shop for.
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From pharmaceutical crystal meth to the hormones for pubertymaxxing, these are the Clavicular-endorsed substances that will make your doctor shudder.
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A key figure in Silicon Valley’s battle royal is a Malibu lawyer who’d rather be a movie producer—if only his name didn’t send some studio brass into fits. Tom Dotan sits down with the ultimate overlord’s underdog.
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King Charles and Queen Camilla have concluded their historic four-day visit to the United States, which took the royals from Washington, DC, to New York City and Virginia.
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