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Snap CEO praises AI for writing two-thirds of the company’s code but warns fellow tech executives underestimate ‘societal pushback’ to the tech | Flipboard

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Snap CEO praises AI for writing two-thirds of the company’s code but warns fellow tech executives underestimate ‘societal pushback’ to the tech Snap, the tech company behind the social media app SnapChat, introduced on Tuesday AI Sponsored Snaps, an…

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Snap CEO praises AI for writing two-thirds of the company’s code but warns fellow tech executives underestimate ‘societal pushback’ to the tech Snap, the tech company behind the social media app SnapChat, introduced on Tuesday AI Sponsored Snaps, an…

Why it matters

The stakes turn on whether readers accept that Elon Musk spent three days testifying as the first witness in his trial against OpenAI. That point shapes the political meaning of the story.

Common ground

The clearest point to anchor on is this: Elon Musk spent three days testifying as the first witness in his trial against OpenAI.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 5 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Elon Musk spent three days testifying as the first witness in his trial against OpenAI.”
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Two web search results confirm that Elon Musk testified for three days as the first witness in his trial against OpenAI. The evidence is consistent across these reports.
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web search NEUTRAL — The third day of Elon Musk’s testimony in his high-stakes trial against OpenAI began with a bout of bickering over whether AI could lead to the “extinction” of the human race.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-testimony-d…
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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk spent three days testifying as the first witness in his trial against OpenAI.
https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/elon-musk’s-7-biggest-…
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web search NEUTRAL — In the second day of a trial pitting Mr. Musk against OpenAI, he said the company’s chief executive, Sam Altman, had misled him. But OpenAI’s lawyer said evidence showed the opposite.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/technology/musk-openai-tr…
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Claim 2: “Snap, the tech company behind the social media app SnapChat, introduced on Tuesday AI Sponsored Snaps, an advertising tool that will allow users to …”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Snapchat introduced a new advertising format called 'AI Sponsored Snaps' which allows users to interact with brand-controlled AI agents directly within chats. The claims are consistent across different reports.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 California gubernatorial election will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect the governor of California, with the statewide nonpartisan top-two primary election scheduled for June 2, 2026. In…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_California_gubernatorial_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; born (1978-02-03)3 February 1978) is a Lebanese and British international human rights lawyer. She has represented several high-profile clients, including former Maldivian…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amal_Clooney
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Doug Ford is the 26th and current premier of Ontario (French: Premier ministre de l'Ontario), Canada. He won a majority in the 2018 Ontario general election, as leader of the Progressive Conservative …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiership_of_Doug_Ford
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Claim 3: “On Thursday, he took the …”
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The claim is too vague ('On Thursday, he took the...') and the evidence provided does not contain a single, specific, verifiable action taken by Elon Musk on a Thursday during a trial. The web search results mention his testimony and the trial dates but do not specify a single, concrete action on a Thursday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ElonJet is a service that uses social media accounts to track the real-time usage of Elon Musk's private airplane. The service, created and provided by Jack Sweeney using public data, has accounts on …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElonJet
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Elon Reeve Musk ( EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X, and xAI. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025; as o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Elon Musk has been actively involved in politics, particularly in the United States and Europe, throughout the majority of his business career. Despite historically donating to and voting for both Dem…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_Elon_M…
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Claim 4: “JPMorgan says 3 trends are shifting the $19.5 trillion ETF market.”
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The claim cites a specific figure ($19.5 trillion) and a specific source (JPMorgan) regarding three shifting trends. While the evidence confirms that JPMorgan and the ETF market are discussed, the specific figure ($19.5 trillion) and the exact list of three trends are not present in the provided web search snippets. The evidence only generally discusses ETFs and market trends, making the claim unverified by the provided sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a table of notable American exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. As of 2020, the number of exchange-traded funds worldwide was over 7,600, representing about 7.74 trillion U.S. dollars in assets. T…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Catherine Duddy Wood (born 1955) is an American investor and founder, chief executive officer (CEO), and chief investment officer (CIO) of Ark Invest, an investment management firm. Her flagship ARK I…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathie_Wood
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a type of investment fund that is also an exchange-traded product; i.e., it is bought and sold on stock exchanges. ETFs own financial assets such as stocks, bonds, cur…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange-traded_fund
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Claim 5: “In real-world test, an AI model did better than ER doctors at diagnosing patients”
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Multiple web search results report that an AI model outperformed human doctors (ER doctors) in diagnosing patients during real-world tests. The findings are consistent across different reports, although the specific AI model (OpenAI's o1 reasoning model) is mentioned in some sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ai Weiwei ( EYE way-WAY; Chinese: 艾未未; pinyin: Ài Wèiwèi, IPA: [âɪ wêɪ.wêɪ]; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of Chin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An entity–relationship model (or ER model) describes interrelated things of interest in a specific domain of knowledge. A basic ER model is composed of entity types (which classify the things of inter…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Meta AI is a research division of Meta (formerly Facebook) that develops artificial intelligence and augmented reality technologies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_AI
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