Mark Masterson

Mark Masterson has written more than 1,700 articles for Live News Chat since 2022 and files most days. His beat is the news the networks on this site are carrying live: US politics, world affairs, breaking news, and the courts, with regular work on technology, sport and entertainment. Because the site exists to point readers at live coverage, most of his reporting is written within hours of the broadcast it follows, and is sourced from primary material where one exists: the filing, the transcript, the agency release, the company statement. Originally from Canada, he has worked in online publishing for over a decade. Corrections and story tips go to security@livenewschat.eu, and the standards his work is held to are set out in the Live News Chat editorial policy.

A Jury Took Less Than Two Hours to Kill Elon Musk’s $150 Billion Vendetta Against OpenAI

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A California jury needed less than two hours to kill Elon Musk’s blockbuster lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman. The verdict, based on statute of limitations, leaves the biggest question in AI unanswered: who holds an $852 billion company accountable to its founding mission?

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Trump Bet $32 Million on Crushing Thomas Massie. Kentucky Voters Get the Final Word Today

Older voter in a barn coat slipping a ballot into a wooden ballot box at a Kentucky polling place at dusk, with a wall of red, white, and blue Republican primary signs to one side, an American flag and curtained voting booth, and a county courthouse silhouette through the window

The most expensive House primary in American history reaches its conclusion today in Kentucky. Rep. Thomas Massie, 98% MAGA-aligned but unforgivable on the other 2%, faces a Trump-recruited challenger backed by $32.6 million and a Pentagon chief who showed up to campaign against him.

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