Shot list — musk-altman-trial
Generated 2026-04-26 23:42 PDT · 47 cues · alignment 99% · 25fps · timeline starts 01:00:00:00
Show
Talking head · 4
Voiceover · 6
Cut · 4
B-roll · 23
Stat card · 10
01:00:00:00
Talking head
[TALKING HEAD — hook]
… On Monday April 27, 2026, in a federal courthouse in Oakland California, a jury …
01:00:09:02
B-roll
[B-ROLL: courtroom]
… The case has been on the docket since November 2024. The number on the cover she …
01:00:09:02
STAT
[STAT CARD: "Filed: November 2024"]
… The case has been on the docket since November 2024. The number on the cover she …
01:00:16:20
STAT
[STAT CARD: "$134B in disputed value"]
… The defendants are Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI itself, and Microsoft as a …
01:00:16:20
B-roll
[B-ROLL: stills:musk-altman-split-frame]
… The defendants are Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI itself, and Microsoft as a …
01:00:24:18
B-roll
[B-ROLL: stills:judge-yvonne-gonzalez-rogers]
… The way this trial is structured tells you something important. This is NOT goin …
01:00:31:03
CUT
[CUT]
… On Friday April 24, three days before opening, Judge Gonzalez Rogers approved a …
01:00:31:03
VOICEOVER
[VOICEOVER — scene 1]
… On Friday April 24, three days before opening, Judge Gonzalez Rogers approved a …
01:00:31:03
B-roll
[B-ROLL: screen-capture:court-docket]
… On Friday April 24, three days before opening, Judge Gonzalez Rogers approved a …
01:00:39:03
STAT
[STAT CARD: "26 claims filed → 2 survive"]
… Out of the twenty six claims Elon Musk filed in November 2024, only two survive …
01:01:01:08
B-roll
[B-ROLL: screen-capture:musk-amended-filing]
… What changed is the strategy. Musk is no longer asking the court to make him per …
01:01:28:11
STAT
[STAT CARD: "$134B redirected to OpenAI charity"]
… The one hundred and thirty four billion dollar damages figure, if Musk wins it, …
01:01:39:06
B-roll
[B-ROLL: company-logo:openai]
… OpenAI's lawyers responded with a single word in their filing. AMBUSH. They told …
01:01:57:21
B-roll
[B-ROLL: courtroom]
… The structure of the trial matters more than the headline number. Gonzalez Roger …
01:02:31:10
VOICEOVER END
[/VOICEOVER]
… So the question on Monday is not who pays. The question on Monday is who control …
01:02:31:10
Talking head
[TALKING HEAD — transition]
… So the question on Monday is not who pays. The question on Monday is who control …
01:02:38:01
STAT
[STAT CARD: "OpenAI valuation: ~$852B"]
… OpenAI is currently valued at roughly eight hundred and fifty two billion dollar …
01:02:38:01
B-roll
[B-ROLL: finance-charts]
… OpenAI is currently valued at roughly eight hundred and fifty two billion dollar …
01:02:50:22
CUT
[CUT]
… Here is the timeline the jury is going to be walked through. December 2015, Musk …
01:02:50:22
VOICEOVER
[VOICEOVER — scene 2]
… Here is the timeline the jury is going to be walked through. December 2015, Musk …
01:02:50:22
B-roll
[B-ROLL: stills:openai-launch-2015]
… Here is the timeline the jury is going to be walked through. December 2015, Musk …
01:03:03:01
STAT
[STAT CARD: "Musk donations: ~$44M (2015–2018)"]
… Musk donates roughly forty four million dollars in the first three years. He sit …
01:03:16:05
B-roll
[B-ROLL: company-logo:microsoft]
… March 2019, OpenAI creates a capped profit subsidiary and accepts a one billion …
01:03:16:05
STAT
[STAT CARD: "Microsoft initial investment: $1B (2019)"]
… March 2019, OpenAI creates a capped profit subsidiary and accepts a one billion …
01:03:16:05
STAT
[STAT CARD: "Capped-profit cap: 100x return"]
… March 2019, OpenAI creates a capped profit subsidiary and accepts a one billion …
01:03:28:23
B-roll
[B-ROLL: screen-capture:musk-altman-emails-pdf]
… Discovery has now produced the email traffic between Musk and Altman across that …
01:03:51:04
B-roll
[B-ROLL: stills:musk-twitter-agi-post]
… By November 2023, Musk is publicly saying he is worried about Microsoft having u …
01:03:59:08
B-roll
[B-ROLL: stills:california-charitable-trust-statute]
… The two surviving claims are narrower than they sound. Unjust enrichment under C …
01:04:20:14
B-roll
[B-ROLL: ai-abstract]
… Breach of charitable trust is the older theory and the more dangerous one. Calif …
01:04:39:02
B-roll
[B-ROLL: stills:stuart-russell-uc-berkeley]
… The judge has already ruled on what evidence the jury sees. Doctor Stuart Russel …
01:05:03:18
B-roll
[B-ROLL: finance-charts]
… Doctor Paul Wazzan, the damages expert, has been cleared to walk the jury throug …
01:05:12:15
B-roll
[B-ROLL: stills:witness-stand]
… The witness list is the part that is going to drive the cable coverage. Elon Mus …
01:05:40:22
VOICEOVER END
[/VOICEOVER]
… The implication of all of this is broader than one company. If Judge Gonzalez Ro …
01:05:40:22
CUT
[CUT]
… The implication of all of this is broader than one company. If Judge Gonzalez Ro …
01:05:40:22
Talking head
[TALKING HEAD — transition]
… The implication of all of this is broader than one company. If Judge Gonzalez Ro …
01:05:44:02
VOICEOVER
[VOICEOVER — scene 3]
… If Judge Gonzalez Rogers finds that OpenAI's directors breached their charitable …
01:05:44:02
B-roll
[B-ROLL: stills:nonprofit-to-forprofit-flow]
… If Judge Gonzalez Rogers finds that OpenAI's directors breached their charitable …
01:06:13:08
B-roll
[B-ROLL: company-logo:xai]
… The political layer is uglier. Musk is now the founder of a competing AI company …
01:06:23:06
B-roll
[B-ROLL: screen-capture:openai-court-filing]
… OpenAI's legal team has openly described the case in court filings as a quote ha …
01:06:48:10
B-roll
[B-ROLL: company-logo:microsoft]
… The financial stakes for Microsoft are easy to underestimate. Microsoft has inve …
01:06:48:10
STAT
[STAT CARD: "Microsoft cumulative investment: ~$13B"]
… The financial stakes for Microsoft are easy to underestimate. Microsoft has inve …
01:07:06:16
STAT
[STAT CARD: "OpenAI–AWS deal: $50B"]
… Microsoft is also currently in a separate business dispute with OpenAI over the …
01:07:06:16
B-roll
[B-ROLL: company-logo:aws]
… Microsoft is also currently in a separate business dispute with OpenAI over the …
01:07:28:02
B-roll
[B-ROLL: news-studio]
… The other quiet piece is security. Earlier this month, an individual described i …
01:08:00:22
VOICEOVER END
[/VOICEOVER]
… So the things to watch over the next four weeks are these. One. Whether Musk him …
01:08:00:22
CUT
[CUT]
… So the things to watch over the next four weeks are these. One. Whether Musk him …
01:08:00:22
Talking head
[TALKING HEAD — sign-off]
… So the things to watch over the next four weeks are these. One. Whether Musk him …