Revelations from OpenAI President Greg Brockman’s private journal are sending ripples through the crypto market, hitting sentiment for Worldcoin (WLD) as the entries become central to Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the AI company.
“It’d be wrong to steal the non-profit from him. That’d be pretty morally bankrupt,” Brockman wrote in his diary, according to court filings reported by the New York Post. The entry, made before the company’s pivot to a for-profit model, is being used by Musk’s lawyers to argue the company intentionally betrayed its founding mission. Another entry reportedly read, “Financially what will take me to $1B?”
The financial details exposed during the trial have been stark. Brockman testified under oath that his stake in OpenAI is valued at nearly $30 billion, despite confirming he invested zero dollars. In contrast, Elon Musk, who is suing the company, testified he invested $38 million in OpenAI’s early stages and now feels like a “fool.”
The fallout from the trial is now impacting assets beyond the immediate scope of the lawsuit. Because OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is also a co-founder of the Tools for Humanity project that created Worldcoin, the leadership and ethics questions at OpenAI are undermining investor confidence in the crypto token. The controversy highlights the risk for projects linked to high-profile founders, where reputational damage in one venture can directly impact another.
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