Musk v. Altman Trial Reaches Final Week as Trump Brings Silicon Valley CEOs to China
The Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman lawsuit over OpenAI's nonprofit mission enters its final week, while tech billionaires join Trump's China diplomatic visit.
The Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman lawsuit over OpenAI's nonprofit mission enters its final week, while tech billionaires join Trump's China diplomatic visit.
More than 50 engineers and researchers have left SpaceXAI since the SpaceX-xAI merger, with rivals Meta and Thinking Machines Labs absorbing key talent.
A jury is now deliberating three narrow legal questions that could force OpenAI to abandon its for-profit structure entirely.
SpaceX has filed documents outlining up to $119 billion in spending on a Texas semiconductor facility called Terafab, built to supply chips for AI, satellites, and robotics.
A text exchange surfaced by OpenAI's lawyers suggests Elon Musk's lawsuit may be less about AI safety principles and more about financial leverage.
Musk's cross-examination in his lawsuit against OpenAI revealed damaging contradictions, suggesting his departure was about control, not mission.
Elon Musk testified under oath that a dispute with Google's Larry Page over existential AI risk was a core driver in co-founding OpenAI, and that recruiting Ilya Sutskever ended their friendship.