OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pleaded for help from Elon Musk’s baby mama as the relatonship between the two tech gurus publicly spiraled.

According to a newly filed court document in the Tesla CEO’s lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman texted Shivon Zilis—one of Musk’s closest confidantes and the mother of four of his children—asking if he should post something flattering about Musk on X.

“BTW, good idea for me to tweet something nice about Elon?” Altman wrote in the Feb. 9, 2023, message, filed in federal court last week. “Have been meaning to do this after he DM’d about not being in the photo from the first day of OpenAI. Just about how much I and others look up to him, how critical his early contributions to OpenAI are, etc.”

Less than a week later, he followed through. “Society underestimates

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