Picture this: two billionaires, Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, facing off in front of an Oakland jury, airing all the bitterness and resentment that have been building between them for years. As Tom Dotan writes for Vanity Fair, “The case is headed to trial in April and has become the tip of the spear in the bitter feud between Musk, the richest man in the world, and Altman, the man he entrusted with humanity’s AI future. At stake is the fate of OpenAI, the nonprofit they cofounded a decade ago that has almost single-handedly sparked the AI boom and is now closing in on a trillion-dollar valuation.” Taking up the fight from Musk’s side is Marc Toberoff, a Hollywood lawyer who would rather be a movie producer and described the case as “a textbook tale of altruism versus greed” in a complaint. “The perfidy and deceit are of Shakespearean proportions.”
In other news, Paris Fashion Week is coming to a close. (Catch up on what you missed at the shows with dispatches from VF style correspondent José Criales-Unzueta!) And the Oscars are almost upon us! Read up on all the places to see and be seen in Los Angeles this week ahead of the most important night in Hollywood—and learn more about the backlash facing best-actor contender Timothée Chalamet. |
ADRIENNE GREEN,
EXECUTIVE EDITOR |
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: “I’ve been underestimated before. In fact, that’s my secret weapon.” |
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The parties, lunches, and dinners you need to know about if you’re on the awards season (or, uh, clout-chasing) circuit. |
“It just feels like the wrong time to be posting my outfits,” one editor said, with designers presenting collections inspired by sex or the street while seldom addressing the world at large. |
On a balmy Sunday afternoon, Love Story–loving zillennials gathered to pay homage to John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette—an event that coincided with a “March for Liberation” rally. |
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In José Criales-Unzueta’s new column on style and fashion, which examines their intersections with power, culture, and society, he dives into the recent presence of Lauren Sánchez Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Priscilla Chan at fashion shows—and how Fashion Week has a long history of being a billionaire’s playpen. |
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