💬 Quoted… “We're sad that it's come to this with someone whom we’ve deeply admired – someone who inspired us to aim higher, then told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI’s mission without him.”

• On Tuesday evening, OpenAI published a blog post pushing back against claims made in a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk last week, which alleged that OpenAI broke its founding agreement to pursue AI research for the good of humanity instead of profit. In the post, OpenAI said Musk was on board with the company creating a for-profit entity in late 2017 – but he wanted majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO, all of which OpenAI refused. The AI startup also brought receipts, quoting an email forwarded from Musk in early 2018 suggesting that OpenAI should “attach to Tesla as its cash cow” via a merger.

🐋👀 Stat of the Day: In an “incredibly rare event,” a team of scientists recently spotted a lone gray whale off the Massachusetts coast. Why so rare? Because the species has been extinct in the Atlantic Ocean for more than 200 years, with just five total sightings over the past decade-and-a-half. If only Dory were around to ask what it was doing so far from home.

🤔 Did You Know?... In your iPhone accessibility settings, you can program your phone to execute a wide range of options when you tap its back twice or three times, including shortcuts to access your camera, take a screenshot, use Shazam’s music identifier, or turn on your flashlight. Just open “Settings,” scroll down to “Accessibility,” click “Touch,” then scroll all the way down and hit “Back Tap.”

📰 Worth a Read: Oppenheimer feared nuclear annihilation – and only a chance pause by a Soviet submariner kept it from happening in 1962 → (The Conversation)