Andrew Sharp has one of the best blog posts I’ve read recently about not just the OpenAI trial, but stepping back to see the big picture of OpenAI’s founding and where things are now. On the evidence: "Musk is wrong here and he should lose. […] Across a two-week trial where Musk and his lawyers have worked every single day to put Altman’s dishonesty at the forefront of the jury’s mind, Elon is the most dishonest character in that courtroom, at least with respect to the facts at hand." It’s a medium-long post and goes through the text messages and other surrounding details. https://sharptext.net/2026/elons-openai-lawsuit-is-boring-and-insulting-and-its-already-a-success/

I work every day on a lot of different things. This requires being able to flow between projects without hitting walls. App review is a wall. It’s a momentum killer. It’s like wading through mud when you want to run.

ChatGPT personal finance is going to be popular, eventually, but initially I expect people to be cautious about giving AI access to their bank accounts. It’s read-only, which I assume is enforced by Plaid: "When you connect your accounts, ChatGPT can access your balances, transactions, investments, and liabilities to help visualize your finances or answer your questions. It cannot see full account numbers or make any changes to your accounts." This year I had planned to download all my bank statements and feed them to Codex to help organize things for taxes. Feels more transparent that way. https://openai.com/index/personal-finance-chatgpt/

Now four days since I appealed the Inkwell rejection. I’ve drafted a full blog post explaining all the problems I’ve run into with app review. Going to hold the post until Monday, just to give Apple a little more time.

Codex has had a section in the ChatGPT mobile app for a while, but only for the cloud version. The update this week is a rewrite (apparently in SwiftUI) and can connect to a Mac running Codex. Seems good. If you have a desktop Mac somewhere, the lines are starting to blur between Codex and OpenClaw.

AI-assisted release notes https://www.manton.org/2026/05/15/aiassisted-release-notes.html

Still kind of unbelievable that The Late Show only has one week left. When the cancellation was announced, the end date seemed far away, and I thought maybe they’d change their mind anyway.

Good recap of the OpenAI trial from TechCrunch. This part is really the whole case: "OpenAI’s attorneys have asked every witness to describe specific restrictions put on Musk’s donations, and none have, including his financial adviser Jared Birchall, his chief of staff Sam Teller, or his special adviser Shivon Zilis. They say everyone involved agreed that private fundraising would be required to achieve its goals, and note that Musk himself attempted to launch an OpenAI-affiliated for-profit he would personally control, and later to merge OpenAI into his company Tesla." https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/what-the-jury-will-actually-decide-in-the-case-of-elon-musk-vs-sam-altman/

Listening to the closing arguments in Elon Musk vs. OpenAI. Elon left the country to be with Trump and Tim Cook in China. Pretty sure Elon knows the case is all but lost. Maybe the goal was never to win, just to make the defendants look bad and waste everyone’s time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZCIO8yoJI

Slowly making improvements to our book database in Micro.blog. There’s a new layout for the book pages too, with the page count and better descriptions when we can get them.