Did you know you can’t steal a charity? Don’t worry. Elon Musk will remind you.

Kirsten Korosec

,

Sean O'Kane

,

Theresa Loconsolo

May 1, 2026

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Did you know you can’t steal a charity? Don’t worry. Elon Musk will remind you.

Kirsten Korosec

,

Sean O'Kane

,

Theresa Loconsolo

May 1, 2026

Listen on

Apple Podcasts

Listen on

Spotify

Elon Musk spent the better part of three days

on the witness stand this week

in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and

his own tweets

are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “nonprofit for the benefit of humanity” mission Musk signed up to fund. As Musk keeps reminding the courtroom: “You can’t steal a charity.”

On this episode of TechCrunch’s

Equity

podcast, Kirsten Korosec and Sean O’Kane break down what’s actually at stake in the courtroom and what to watch for as Altman and others take the stand, plus deals, defense tech, and what Big Tech’s earnings week revealed about the limits of the AI spending era.

Listen to the full episode to hear about:

Why

cloud was the winner of earnings week

, and what

AWS

, Google, and

Microsoft’s

numbers say about where enterprise AI spending is actually landing

The scholarship app founder

taking Sallie Mae to court

after they acquired his startup…and began selling its student data to ad networks and universities

BMW i Ventures’ ne