The Download: inside the Musk v. Altman trial, and AI for democracy

MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter covers the first week of the Musk v. Altman trial, where Musk alleges he was misled about OpenAI's for-profit conversion. Additional stories include a blueprint for using AI to strengthen democracy, the Pentagon's sweeping AI deals with Microsoft, Nvidia, and AWS for classified work, a Chinese court ruling that firms cannot fire workers solely to replace them with AI, the White House vetting AI models before release, and a Nature retraction of a ChatGPT education study. Also covered: Elon Musk settling an SEC lawsuit over Twitter stock disclosure, GameStop's $56 billion bid for eBay, and AI tools monitoring worker emotions.