OpenAI Chief Altman to Take Stand in OpenAI-Musk Trial on Tuesday
OpenAI says Musk wanted control of the startup, while Musk seeks billions in damages and changes that could upend its planned public offering.
- In Oakland, California, the civil trial of Elon Musk versus OpenAI continues, centering on allegations that CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman betrayed the firm's nonprofit mission by shifting to a for-profit entity.
- Documents released Sunday reveal OpenAI altered its governance structure in 2025, implementing a "supermajority" requirement that complicates efforts to remove Altman, who faces scrutiny over his leadership style.
- Testimony Monday from co-founder Ilya Sutskever detailed Altman's 2023 ouster, describing a "consistent pattern of lying" and lack of candor that undermined safety protocols before the CEO was quickly reinstated.
- Musk abandoned his request for personal damages, instead seeking funds for OpenAI's charitable arm, while U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers will determine liability for alleged breaches of duty.
- The proceedings force the opaque AI industry into public view as OpenAI explores an initial public offering amid intense competition with rival Anthropic, potentially shaping how regulators interpret artificial intelligence's rapid evolution.
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Elon Musk’s court battle against OpenAI enters homestretch
A trial that may shape the future of OpenAI entered its final stages on Thursday, as lawyers for Elon Musk try to convince a jury to hold the ChatGPT maker’s leaders responsible for transforming the nonprofit into a vehicle to enrich themselves.
Altman tells court Musk demanded 90% of OpenAI before storming out
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in a federal courthouse in Oakland, California, becoming one of the final witnesses in a three-week trial placing two of the tech industry's most powerful figures in direct legal conflict. Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest person and an early OpenAI co-founder, has sued Altman, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and Microsoft, alleging they betrayed the lab's founding nonprofit mission and enriched thems…
Elon Musk wanted OpenAI to go to his kids, Sam Altman tells jury
Elon Musk tried to take control of OpenAI, even suggesting it could pass to his children when he dies, Sam Altman has alleged in court, the BBC reports. The co-founder and CEO of OpenAI is being sued by Musk, who accuses him of having “looted a charity” – as OpenAI began as a non-profit. The case is being heard in front of a federal jury in Oakland, California. On Wednesday, Altman said Musk backed the idea of OpenAI becoming a for-profit busine…
Microsoft’s CTO testifies about email at the heart of Elon Musk’s allegations against tech giant
Kevin Scott, Microsoft CTO, in Redmond in May 2025. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott took the stand Wednesday and, for the first time, publicly addressed the internal email that Elon Musk’s lawyers have cited to support allegations that Microsoft knew OpenAI was abandoning its nonprofit mission before investing billions in the company. That email, sent by Scott on March 7, 2018, read in part, “I wonder if the big Ope…
Nadella’s $13 Billion Bet: How Fear of Repeating IBM’s Fate Reshaped Microsoft’s AI Strategy
Satya Nadella stared down a federal courtroom this week and laid bare the calculation that has defined Microsoft’s place in the artificial intelligence race. The CEO didn’t speak in abstractions. He pointed to a single April 2022 email sent to his top executives. “I don’t want to be IBM and OpenAI to be Microsoft,” he wrote. The line landed like a gut punch in the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial. Elon Musk’s lawyers wielded it to argue that Microso…
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