None of this addresses perhaps the main issue. Bell Labs predated the venture capital revolution of the 1970s.
The key insight of venture capital was that firms like Bell Labs were holding on to very valuable resources at compensation rates that were far below what those resources could generate if they were empowered to create their own firms.
This was tremendously successful. While we have no counterfactual, innovation in the US blosomed ove the last 50 years. The fundamental research may have languished (I would probably disagree, moore's law didn't happen through magic for example) a tremendous number of companies, and all of the large companies we know of today, which provide all of the services of the modern world were a result of venture capital.
Prosecutors have wide ranging discretion, our laws are complex and subject to a tremendous amount of interpretation.
Without protection the executive would be at the mercy of the judicial branch. This is clearly an inversion of power.
Perhaps the solution is clean out our legal system wholesale so that it is obvious to all involved whether an action or set of actions could not result in prosecution in the future. Such an action was not within the power of the supreme court.
This is plausible, Elon is a fantastic recruiter and he recruited Ilya for OpenAI. There are reports of xAI buying enormous numbers of GPUs and Elon's level of control of his companies means that Ilya recklessness isn't an issue.
Charlie has been at MSFT a little while now, I suspect he knows how the machine works.
I would expect this to result in lower feature velocity. In theory features are tied to increasing revenue. If so, I wonder if he is actually willing to make that trade off.
(edit) I see that the article included that FSD is 5x safer than humans, which may be valid.
The article then said : "However, the only reason it is safer than the US average is that it is supervised by drivers who ideally pay extra attention when using FSD."
I am positive that they had zero data to back that assertion.
Amazon is amazingly well run.