Jury rejects Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman

A California federal jury unanimously rejected Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI and its co-founder Sam Altman, ending the latest chapter in a nearly decade-long feud between the two technology moguls over the artificial intelligence firm’s non-profit structure.

The advisory verdict took less than two hours of deliberation from the jury, which listened to three weeks of testimony, including from both Musk, Altman, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

The nine-person jury told the court Musk took too long to file the lawsuit, missing the deadline for the statute of limitations.

As expected, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers agreed with the jury, throwing out all of Musk’s claims.

The verdict is a major blow to Musk, who ratcheted up the dispute in 2024 by suing over OpenAI’s alleged shift away from its founding mission. 

Musk and Altman founded OpenAI as a nonprofit in 2015 with former Stripe executive Greg Brockman, computer scientist Ilya Sutskever and others.  The Tesla CEO joined forces........

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