The world’s richest man, the AI king, and a courtroom showdown

For two men whose companies promise to remake civilisation, the opening day was strangely pedestrian. The microphones in a federal courtroom in downtown Oakland kept cutting out. A presentation slide vanished from the screens. “We can’t hear you,” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said, before drily observing that the fe…

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