Looks like Mira/Brad Lightcap were under the impression tha gdb was essentially fired from Stripe. Also, interestingly, Ilya seems not to know who is paying his legal bills?!
Maybe that's driven by the long and embarrassing track record of lawyers, court clerks and admins somehow failing to properly redact text from PDFs again and again (eg only covering text with black boxes while leaving the text metadata intact). This despite it now being an infamous recurring mistake in a common yet crucial part of their jobs.
> Anthropic reached out to Helen [...] with a proposal to be merged with OpenAI and take over its leadership.
> Q. When was that?
> A. On Saturday.
> Q. Saturday, November 18th?
I don't think that's been publicly hinted at before?