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Jury rules against Elon Musk in court battle against Sam Altman, OpenAI
The nine-person jury found Musk sued too late after less than two hours of deliberation, handing OpenAI and Sam Altman a win in the closely watched AI dispute.
- A jury in Oakland, California, rejected Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, concluding three weeks of testimony in the high-profile lawsuit over the company's for-profit conversion.
- Musk sued OpenAI in 2024, alleging executives "stole a charity" by abandoning its founding nonprofit mission despite his roughly $38 million donation intended for development "for the benefit of humanity."
- OpenAI's legal team argued restructuring was necessary to compete with Google DeepMind, while also revealing Musk had previously pushed to fold the company into Tesla.
- Musk's team sought $134 billion in "ill-gotten gains" and removal of executives, though District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers must now confirm the advisory jury's verdict.
- The verdict arrives as both billionaires prepare companies for public markets; OpenAI recently raised $122 billion at a valuation of over $850 billion, while SpaceX, valued at $1.25 trillion, may publish its IPO prospectus this week.
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Elon Musk argues that the judge never made a statement on the merits of the matter, "just a technical question related to the timetable" and claims that he will file an appeal with the courts.
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In the battle of the giants of Silicon Valley Elon Musk comes out defeated against Sam Altman for procedural reasons. In less than two hours of deliberations, a California jury unanimously rejected the accusations of the richest man in the world against his rival and OpenAI because presented after the expiration of the limitation terms. Unless appeals are made, the verdict puts an end to a case that has bewitched the tech world by contrasting tw…
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