Everybody involved at that level knows the AI hype is a sham, so they have their finger hovering above the “sell” button. Open AI’s valuation and cash burn, for example, assume a much higher revenue in the future – but if this upstart can release a similar product with a fraction of the overhead, that cash burn now becomes a massive liability.
A tweet and then several posts form the official Proton account. Furthermore his comments were so obviously badly informed both about the US government and the nature of his userbase that he clearly lacks the critical thinking to run the company.