In this edition of TechCrunch's This Week in AI newsletter, we take a look at Elon Musk's bid for OpenAI's nonprofit arm — and the fallout.

Elon Musk will withdraw his bid for OpenAI's non-profit arm if the board agrees to preserve the charity's mission, lawyers for Musk said in a court filing dated Wednesday.

Musk's court filings assert that OpenAI's assets must remain within a charitable trust and should not be transferred for private gain. That contrasts with his proposed acquisition

A researcher affiliated with Elon Musk’s startup xAI has found a new way to both measure and manipulate entrenched preferences and values expressed by artificial intelligence models—including their political views.

Pentagon angst is as old as the military-industrial complex. Past secretaries of defence, including Bob Gates and the late Ash Carter, were philosopher kings next to their new and manifestly unqualified successor, Pete Hegseth. And yet the defence bureaucracy has always seemed to come out on top.

Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest man, took questions for the first time since the president gave him broad authority to overhaul the executive branch.

Elon Musk has called to “delete entire agencies” from the United States’ federal government. Musk has consolidated control over large swaths of the government with President Donald Trump’s blessing since assuming leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency.

President Trump has empowered Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, to gut the federal bureaucracy. Here's 5 ways he's starting to carry it out.

Compare that with the same period last year under Joe Biden: federal spending back then came to about $26bn a day. Outflows from the Treasury have actually risen since January 28th, when Mr Musk first claimed his “Department of Government Efficiency”,

While Musk and Altman bicker on X and in court, the race to develop better AI models continues. And while they fight, open-source models pose a growing threat. Last month, Chinese competitor DeepSeek rocked markets when it debuted a model that was developed open-source on a much smaller budget than OpenAI or Google could manage.

Musk’s bid for OpenAI - I doubt the business rationale for the bid. However, the bid itself could signal an issue with the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership.

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