COMPUTE! The AI industry, overheard · Est. 2026
Fortnightly
awards

The Jackass Trophy · №4

Numbered honours for service to the discourse. The mythology compounds.

THE SEPARATE ENTITY — Air Canada

For arguing, in tribunal, that its chatbot was “a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions.” The tribunal said no.

Moffatt v. Air Canada · 2024 · $650.88

THE $134B ASK — Elon Musk

Asked a court for $134,000,000,000 and left with a dismissal. An advisory jury — and Judge Gonzalez Rogers — found his claims time-barred. He’s appealing.

Musk v. Altman · verdict 18 May 2026 · on appeal

THE HALLU- CINATION — The Lawyers, Plural

Whose AI hallucinated the case citations they then filed — in an actual AI lawsuit. Sanctions, where imposed, were also real.

various dockets · 2025–26 · as reported