Start Up No.2666: Musk loses to Altman in OpenAI court battle, world energy tipping point nears, BBC faces the future, and more

The collective noun for owls is a “parliament” – but how did they, and other animals, get their collective nouns? CC-licensed photo by Heather on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. A selection of 9 links for you. Thinking about it. I’m @charlesarthur on Twitter. On Threads: charles_arthur. On Mastodon: https://newsie.social/@charlesarthur. On Bluesky: @charlesarthur.bsky.social. Observations and links welcome. Jury rejects Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman • The Washington Post Gerrit De Vynck: » A federal judge dismissed all of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI on Monday after a jury found that he exceeded the statute of limitations in a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company. The decision is an outright win for OpenAI in a trial that pitted Musk against the maker of ChatGPT and two of the men with whom he co-founded the company in 2015: OpenAI’s…