Alex Shan

Co-founder and CEO of Judgment Labs, an AI infrastructure startup building evaluation and behavior-monitoring tools for AI agents. He previously worked as an AI researcher at Stanford’s NLP Group within the Stanford AI Lab.

Altman Testimony Casts Musk’s OpenAI Claims as a Fight Over Control

OpenAI’s trial, Anthropic’s secondary-market flare-up, and two media deals are read on Diet TBPN as fights over control, enforceability, and credibility. John Coogan argues that Musk v. OpenAI is increasingly not only about whether OpenAI betrayed its nonprofit mission, but whether Elon Musk accepted a for-profit path only if he controlled it; Jordi Hays frames the Anthropic panic as a test of whether private-company transfer restrictions can hold against demand for AI exposure. Coogan and Hays treat Thinking Machines’ demo separately, as a bet that real-time interaction should be native to AI models, while eBay’s rejected GameStop bid and Byron Allen’s BuzzFeed investment turn on market confidence.

TBPNMay 13, 202615 min read