The First Trillionaire?

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Happy Monday, Future Party. How much do people love Star Wars? Enough for someone to drop $3.6 million on Darth Vader’s lightsaber — yep, the very one wielded in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Sold at auction by LA’s Propstore, it set the record as the priciest piece of memorabilia from the saga. But here’s the real question: at that price, does it actually work?

Tesla’s board has proposed a pay package for CEO Elon Musk that could make him the world’s first trillionaire — if he stays at the company for the next decade and hits some extremely ambitious financial targets.

The Big Bet: While Tesla was once the frontrunner in the EV revolution, it has recently lost significant ground to competitors in both the US and abroad. And with Musk’s attention constantly shifting to other companies and politics, Tesla sees keeping its controversial leader focused as essential to long-term success — a point emphasized by both the company’s board chair and director in their proposal.

Behind The Package: No matter how focused Musk may be, reaching the full potential of the proposed pay package will be a steep challenge.

Final Offer: According to Forbes, Musk is currently worth $400 billion. Combined with the proposed $900 billion in compensation, that would land him in a party-of-one, 12-figure club. The pay would be awarded piecemeal as he hits certain benchmarks and commits to remaining CEO for at least seven and a half years.

That is, of course, if shareholders approve the package on November 6th — though they still haven’t signed off on the 2018 plan, which is still mired in litigation. And not everyone thinks Musk deserves such unprecedented compensation, especially when Tesla has faltered while he also runs SpaceX, X, xAI, Neuralink, and… you get the idea.

Prediction: There’s no way Tesla can hit those financial targets through car sales alone, so it will have to lean on its emerging technologies to reshape the business. That’s a big gamble.

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AI startup Fable Studio announced plans to recreate the missing — and potentially destroyed — 43 minutes of Orson Welles’ second film, The Magnificent Ambersons.

The Big Picture: Fable — the company behind Showrunner, its self-dubbed “Netflix of AI” — appears to be finishing Ambersons as a controversial stunt to grab studio attention… part of a broader push to court studios into licensing its titles for user-generated content on its platform.

Behind The Scenes: The Magnificent Ambersons was originally a 131-minute film, but RKO Radio Pictures, unhappy with it, cut the third act and released a trimmed 88-minute version — something Welles remained livid about for the rest of his life.

The cut footage was thought to be lost forever… until now. Or at least, that’s how Fable would pitch it.

Final Cut: Fable CEO Edward Saatchi said the company has no intentions of commercializing the finished product, since it doesn’t have the rights from Warner Bros. or Concord… and it’s doubtful they’ll ever be licensed.

That’s especially true after the Welles estate — despite previously allowing Welles’ voice to be deepfaked for some commercial uses — slammed the endeavor as “a purely mechanical exercise without any of the uniquely innovative thinking or a creative force like Welles.” Ouch.

Coming Soon: While the commercial prospects for the finished AI-generated The Magnificent Ambersons are slim, expect studios to be quietly watching to see if it can even be done… and how they can apply a similar model to their own films.

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📕 Anthropic’s settlement with a group of authors who sued over copyright infringement amounts to at least $1.5 billion in payouts.

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