[socketcluster]

Other possibility; a disgruntled investor who poured millions into dead-end fusion research and now wishes they had invested in AI research instead? Blames the professor for persuading them to invest in fusion.

It's a tough one to find a motive for...

[screye]

Can you quote 1 other example of a disgruntled investor that has killed an American academic over the last 50 years ?

[blitzar]

They normally just have their friend the DA lock them up for "fraud"