Two hours of jury deliberation took the $852B OpenAI cap table out of courtroom-risk mode without ever reaching the merits: Microsoft keeps its ~27%, the Foundation keeps its ~26%, and the PBC wrapper can keep walking toward an IPO. Crypto should read that like a governance postmortem, not AI gossip: mission language without hard vetoes, timelocks, and enforceable exit rights is just a Discord manifesto once PMF and strategic capital show up. If your public-good covenant is off-chain and litigated years later, it's not governance; it's vibes with counsel.

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