{"id":512,"date":"2026-05-18T19:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:33:08","slug":"jury-rules-against-elon-musk-in-his-feud-with-openai-saying-he-filed-his-lawsuit-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Jury rules against Elon Musk in his feud with OpenAI, saying he filed his lawsuit too late"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>By BARBARA ORTUTAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) \u2014 A federal court on Monday dismissed\u00a0claims\u00a0filed against OpenAI and its top executives by Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to guide artificial intelligence\u2019s development as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=510\">About 90 bison seized as Moffat County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigates animal neglect case<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, was a co-founder of OpenAI, the company that launched in 2015 and went on to create ChatGPT. After investing $38 million in its first years,\u00a0Musk\u00a0accused OpenAI\u00a0CEO Sam Altman\u00a0and his top deputy of shifting into a moneymaking mode behind his back.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-person jury found that Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit and missed the deadline for the statute of limitations.<\/p>\n<p>The jury served in an advisory role, but Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers accepted the verdict Monday as the court\u2019s own and dismissed Musk\u2019s claims. The jury deliberated only two hours before returning its verdict.<\/p>\n<p>The trial that began April 27 in Oakland, California shed light on the bitter falling-out between the two Silicon Valley titans and the beginnings of OpenAI, now\u00a0a company\u00a0valued at $852 billion and moving toward potentially one of the largest initial public offerings in history.<\/p>\n<p>Altman and OpenAI claimed there was never a promise to keep OpenAI a nonprofit forever. In fact, they argued, Musk knew this and filed his lawsuit because he couldn\u2019t have unilateral control over the fast-growing AI developer.<\/p>\n<p>Musk was seeking damages to be paid to the altruistic efforts of OpenAI\u2019s charitable arm as well as Altman\u2019s ouster from OpenAI\u2019s board. Musk\u2019s decision to stop funding the company contributed to a bitter rift between the former allies. Musk says he was responding to deceptive conduct that OpenAI\u2019s board picked up on when it\u00a0fired Altman\u00a0as CEO in 2023 before he\u00a0got his job back\u00a0days later.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The three-week trial saw testimony from Musk, Altman and his top lieutenant Greg Brockman, along with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and a slew of others in the tech titans\u2019 orbit. Musk told jurors on his first of three days on the stand that, fundamentally, \u201cI think they\u2019re going to try to make this lawsuit \u2026 very complicated, but it\u2019s actually very simple,\u201d Musk said. \u201cWhich is that it\u2019s not OK to steal a charity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s lawsuit claimed that, in addition to \u201cbreach of charitable trust,\u201d Altman and Brockman unjustly enriched themselves from the windfall as the ChatGPT maker soared in valuation. Brockman revealed during the trial that his stake in OpenAI is worth about $30 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=508\">Greenland\u2019s prime minister tells Trump\u2019s envoy self-determination cannot be negotiated<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI has brushed off Musk\u2019s allegations as an unfounded case of sour grapes aimed at undercutting its rapid growth and bolstering Musk\u2019s own xAI, which he launched in 2023 as a competitor. During cross-examination, Musk was sometimes combative with OpenAI lawyer William Savitt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour questions are not simple,\u201d Musk said at one point. \u201cThey are designed to trick me essentially.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jurors also heard from witnesses including OpenAI ex-board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley, who spoke about the decision to fire Altman in 2023. They were ousted from the board themselves when Altman returned to his role a few days later.<\/p>\n<p>Altman and Musk both vied to be OpenAI\u2019s CEO in its early years. In his testimony, Altman said he had concerns about Musk\u2019s attempts to gain more control over OpenAI, which was aiming to safely build a better-than-human form of AI called\u00a0artificial general intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of the reason we started OpenAI is we didn\u2019t think AGI could be under the control of any one person, no matter how good their intents are,\u201d Altman said.<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of his testimony, Altman said that before things turned sour, he had thought very highly of Musk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like he had abandoned us, not come through on his promises, put the company in a very difficult place, jeopardized the mission, didn\u2019t really care about the things I thought he cared about,\u201d Altman said. \u201cIt\u2019s been an extremely painful thing for me \u2026 to have someone that I respected so much not acknowledge that and continue to publicly attack us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=506\">Aurora man arrested on suspicion of murder in 4-year-old godson\u2019s beating death<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal jury has sided with OpenAI and its top executives in a feud with Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to guide artificial intelligence\u2019s development as a nonprofit dedicated to humanity\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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