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Altman testified for the first time on Tuesday, spending roughly four hours in federal court in Oakland defending OpenAI's nonprofit-to-for-profit restructuring against Musk's claim that he and Microsoft "stole a charity." He told the jury Musk's opening demand at OpenAI's founding was 90% of the equity, and that in a 2017 conversation Musk floated handing the company to his children if he died. Musk's lawyer Steven Molo went hard at credibility, leaning on prior critical testimony from Mira Murati, Ilya Sutskever, and Helen Toner. Closing arguments Thursday; Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers could rule next week.

Why it matters: A bad ruling could unwind October 2025's reorganization into OpenAI Group PBC, force Altman and Brockman out, and torpedo the planned $1T IPO — with Microsoft on the hook as a co-defendant. Only two of Musk's original 26 claims survived to trial, but both (breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment) are the dangerous ones. Vivian Dong put it bluntly: it would be "unprecedented" for a court to order the structural changes Musk wants.

At The Android Show: I/O Edition on May 12, Google reframed Android as "moving from an operating system into an intelligence system." The Gemini Intelligence package includes Auto Browse in Chrome, Gemini-powered Autofill, a Gboard dictation tool called Rambler, and "Create My Widget" for natural-language homescreen and Wear OS Tile generation. Then they dropped Googlebook — a premium Android-based laptop line with a Gemini-powered "Magic Pointer" cursor shipping fall 2026 from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Aluminium OS (built on Android 17) is officially eating ChromeOS.

Why it matters: This is Google's pre-emptive strike before Apple's anticipated AI reboot, and they compressed software, hardware, and a Chrome-level agent into one news cycle. The collateral damage is going to be brutal: OS-level Rambler dictation could flatten Wispr Flow, Typeless, and Willow overnight. As TechCrunch put it, "when a platform player enters a market at the OS level, stand-alone apps need a compelling reason" — better accuracy, deeper features, or stronger privacy.

The 17-CEO roster that went out Monday for Trump's Beijing trip very conspicuously did not include the most important chip CEO on the planet. Then media noticed, Trump personally phoned Huang on Tuesday, and Huang flew to Anchorage to board Air Force One during a refueling stop. The confirmed delegation now includes Musk, Cook, Fink, Solomon, Schwarzman, and Mehrotra for the May 14-15 summit. NVIDIA rose ~2.4% premarket; Chinese AI-linked stocks rallied on bets the visit unlocks more H200 supply.

Why it matters: Semiconductor export policy is now sitting at the center of US-China trade. The wild contrarian wrinkle: even after Trump approved H200 sales in December 2025 (with a 25% revenue cut to Treasury), zero H200s have actually entered China because Beijing customs is blocking them. NVIDIA reports fiscal Q1 on May 20 — one week after the summit — which makes summit deliverables a direct earnings catalyst. China is a ~$50B opportunity NVIDIA's currently locked out of.

On May 13, NVIDIA became the first company ever to reach a $5.5T market cap, with shares climbing roughly 3% to an intraday high of $227.16. They added ~$500B in fresh market value in less than seven months since first crossing $5T on October 29. The company is now worth more than the annual GDP of every nation except the U.S. and China — eclipsing Germany ($5.01T), Japan ($4.34T), the UK ($4.00T), and India ($3.92T). The surge happened to coincide with Huang joining Trump's Beijing trip.

Why it matters: The slope is the story. NVIDIA hit $1T in May 2023, $4T in July 2025, $5T in October 2025, $5.5T this week — a ~1,500% gain in five years. Hyperscaler 2026 capex of $635-670B is the demand engine, but every top-four customer is now building its own accelerator (TPU, Trainium, MAIA, MTIA). Dan Ives's "new oil or gold" line writes itself; the real question is how long the moat holds.

Cerebras priced its US IPO at $185 per share — above the upwardly revised $150-$160 marketed range — selling 30 million Class A shares for ~$5.55B in proceeds. That values the company at $56.4B fully diluted, making it the largest stock-market debut globally so far in 2026 per Dealogic. Trading begins on Nasdaq under "CBRS" today, May 14. The offering ran roughly 20x oversubscribed and Cerebras raised the marketed range twice in a single week.

Why it matters: The re-rate is absurd — $8.1B in September 2025, $23B in February, $56.4B at IPO. 7x in eight months. It opens the 2026 AI IPO wave and signals capital is rotating from training to inference. But the customer concentration is genuinely scary: MBZUAI was 62% of 2025 revenue and G42 was 24% (86% from two UAE-affiliated entities), and the $24.6B backlog is dominated by OpenAI's ~$20B commitment. Oh, and OpenAI lent Cerebras $1B secured by warrants for 33M+ shares. That's not a typo.