Nathan Calvin, the 29-year-old general counsel of Encode—a small AI policy nonprofit with just three full-time employees—published a viral thread on X Friday accusing OpenAI of using intimidation tactics to undermine California’s SB 53, the California Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, while it was still being debated. He also alleged that OpenAI used its ongoing legal battle with Elon Musk as a pretext to target and intimidate critics, including Encode, which it implied was s...